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...minute" story is a wild burlesque, of considerable merit, with a preface which might well be reduced to a title, and a postscript which in spite of its kindly spirit might well be omitted. Mr. Schenck's "Missing Mistletoe" is slow in getting under way, and sudden ever afterwards. Much of the dialogue lacks ease, but, the sudden part is diverting. Mr. Warren's "Lost Christmas" is a story of sorrow, told creditably yet lacking power. Mr. Whitman's "Chamburlesque" I cannot estimate fairly without reading the work it parodles--and this, if the parody is just, I should...
...finally, as its title indicates, a historical narrative, based, I suppose, upon the traditions of the Maine town of Pemaquid, where the scene is laid. The general conditions under which the English settlers lived during the French and Indian Wars are interestingly sketched, and the account of a sudden attack upon the colonists fort has real dramatic force, skillfully manipulated so as to lead to a conflict of motives in the breast of one of the defenders. One or two of the characterizations are somewhat perfunctory, and the language is here and there a little too consciously archaic...
...dates of the annual Hyde lectures, which will deal this year with the economic history of France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, have been postponed two weeks, owing to the sudden illness of the lecturer, M. Le vicomte G. D'Avenal...
...Gould, the contemporary cartoonist. Many of these, like Gladstone, had long careers; while, on the other hand, such men as Randolph Churchill, destined in the light of his early progress to a great career, if not a Prime Ministership, were ruined through a single fatal speech or a sudden change of sentiment...
Dean Shaler experienced a sudden change for the worse during the early morning yesterday and sank rapidly until noon. Since then little change has taken place in his condition. At noon Drs. E. A. Darling of Cambridge, F. R. Jouett of Cambridge, and F. C. Shattuck of the Harvard Medical School were in consultation, but refused to make any official announcement upon Dean Shaler's illness. While the Dean's condition is extremely critical, the doctors have not given up hope of his recovery...