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...best of the stories is entitled "The O'Driscolls of Hungry Hill." It treats of the Irish famine in a sympathetic manner. "The Conversion of the Hug-Mug-Gee Islands" contains an ingenious idea, amusingly worked out. "Cosette" begins with an unnecessarily long and rather tedious description of an artist. The plot is ineffective, because its end is apparent before it is fairly introduced. The French has a decidedly Anglicized sound...
Professor Royce began by saying that this period was one of marked contrast with the time of Spinoza. The seventeenth century trusted to reason but later the world was driven to the study of human nature rather than physical. The lecturer went on to show how valuable is doubt. The skeptic is indispensable. The four great ages of doubt have done the world more good than six centuries of faith...
This evening the series of Bible meetings will be begun, Professor Francis G. Peabody leading the way with an address on "The Purpose, Scope and Method of the Course." The plan of the series is to form a many sided rather than a systematic or complete study of the Bible in its literary, ethical, and religious aspects. The meetings will be continued every Tuesday evening and will afford opportunity, as did the Conference meetings last year, for questions and conversations. The outline of the year's study is to consist of three divisions: A General In troduction, Studies...
...Shenandoah" at the Globe theatre is almost all that could be desired. The second and third acts are decidedly well done; in these acts the patriotic spirit of the drama is well brought out and the scenes are greeted with applause by the audience. The first act seems rather flat, not so much on account of the acting as from the nature of the play. In fact the interest in the drama arises less from the characters presented than from the historical events which are brought to mind. One is more interested in the fact that the trumpet and torch...
LITTLE EM'LY."Little Em'ly" at the Museum is a characterization of David Copperfield, or rather of that part of the story concerning Em'ly. The play loses by comparison with the book, but has enough substance left to lend itself well to the clever treatment of the Museum Company. The Uriah Heep of Mr. Wilson is the mainstay of the piece, though the Wilkins Micawber of Mr. Boniface is full of excellent touches. Miss Annie Clark has little to do, but as usual does it artistically. The other members of the company are uniformly good with...