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...each adversary, examine his jacket carefully, consult together, and decide as best they can. This running of the judges at every interval of two or three passes, and peeking for a fly-speck on the chest of the contestants, converts the exhibition into a burlesque. It interrupts the sword play, often at a most unfortunate moment. It intercepts a valley, or a "Phrase d'Armes" and spoils the beauty of the game, all because the contestants are not conceded to be honest enough to acknowledge hits made against them. This is all wrong. When a fencer is hit, whether...
HARVARD FENCING CLUB. - M. Rondelle is at the club rooms every Wednesday and Friday evening from 7 to 9, to give lessons in fencing and broad - sword The lessons are free of charge to all members...
...second meeting the events will be, parallel bars, high jump, tumbling, double trapeze, broad sword, Japanese exhibition of top spinning, ladder exhibition and potato race. There may also be a special exhibition on the parallel bars...
...some as the coming great poet. Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats have all had an influence over him, but so far he has not shown the ease and copiousness of a great poet. Another poet who shows the French influence is W. E. Henley, whose "Song of the Sword" is vivid and scrupulously finished. "The Book of the Rhymer's Club," lately from the press, is a collection of most charming and original poems by Riese, Yates, Symonds and others. It has in its collection some of the most finished and musical poems of modern time...
...conspicuous character in this second part is Skarphethin, stalwart, always grimly smiling with his battle axe upraised. He kills his foster brother, and when at the Olthing a bully upbraids him, he smiled and striking forward said "Do now one of two things Thorkell foul-mouth, sheath your sword and set down or I'll drive the axe into your head, and cleave you down into the shoulders." Thorkell sat down. Njal and his sons are attacked and the house set on fire. Skarphethin makes a grand defence, and on his death his enemies said it was better than they...