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...effort to evade this law, Charitie sends a love message to Portentous; but owing to a misconception, the latter believes his suit hopeless and attempts suicide. Just at this time the two exiles arrive by ship and are allowed to remain after examination. As they go in search of lodgings, Mothere Broomstycke and her crew of witches arrive. A soul-harrowing song ensues. The pirate now appears, learns that he is the long lost son of the witch, and disguises himself in one of Mistress Charitie's dresses with which Happie chances to be passing. The buccaneer now retires, after...
...current number of the Monthly is a pleasing combination of entertaining fiction, stimulating special articles and keen book reviews. It is however to be regretted that the men who contribute the stories have been forced so far a field in search of subject matter. The life around us is surely worthy of transcription...
...play is full of amusing situations, in one of which a foppish French tailor, in search of the latest fashions, falls in with a company of courtiers who owe him money. There follows some very amusing horseplay, characteristic of the time in which the comedy is written. Another series of amusing incidents is afforded by numerous mistakes occuring during the progress of an elopement. The King finally settles all the disputes, and the play ends with the marriage of Ismenia and Don Julio together with the reconciliation of the hostile families...
...poetry rests on one indispensable principle--the search for duty. There is poetry in everything, and it is the poet's part to find it and draw it out. One of the striking features of romanticism is the principle of "belief in inspiration...
...contained on these plates and on those taken with the Bruce and the Bache telescopes has led to the discovery of twenty-three variable stars. A new star was also found in the constellation Sagittarius. Perhaps the most important investigation undertaken during the year with these photographs was the search for the planet Eros during its opposition in 1894. The detailed study of the spectra of the southern stars, also obtained through the Draper telescope, is approaching completion...