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...Bruce's is not. It is almost too strong throughout. It glows with Oriental savagery and splendor; but although the story is a very powerful, - well, tremendously powerful - one, it is rather too highly spiced for the average reader. The writer of "Alexis" has recently been censured for his penchant for slaughter; but it is to Mr. Bruce's lust for gore and rapine as the gentle zephyr is to the hurricane...
...while here gave several public readings, and on every occasion proved himself possessed of rare elocutionary and dramatic power. His reading of the Midsummer Night's Dream with orchestral accompaniament will be long remembered by all who had the good fortune to hear him. As a humorous and dialect reader Mr. Hayes stands almost unrivalled. Everywhere he has received the highest praise and has met with the most flattering success. Mr. Hayes will read at Library Hall on the evening of Feb. 4th. The reading will be a miscellaneous one, including dramatic, narrative, and humorous selections, As a former "Cornellian...
...poetry. The next article, "A Fellow Traveller," is the first of a number of short anecdotes. It has the recommendation of being interesting, but one feels a strong desire to assist the author on the matter of proper names and to suggest that there is something disagreeable to the reader at finding the hero in a town, beginning with an F and followed by a dash. Yet the anecdote is otherwise well told. "Phoebe Southerly" follows; being an account of the conversation of a skull, suspended from the ceiling by a cord, with a young man. The picture...
Another story follows entitled "Princess Capricia." As it is the third in this month's Advocote, it has the disadvantage of having had two similar pieces coming before it, and thus the reader perchance would have desired something other than a story. But "Princess Capricia" is brightly told, and by leaving the matter in hand a little in doubt keeps the interest up after reading. The author has hit upon a good idea there...
...nonsense in them, one can scarcely tell whether to go on reading or toss the paper away in disgust. In the last number the disgust won the battle. In this number the temptation is the same, but the piece is written in an easy style which has held the reader till...