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...earthly Paradise, through which the purified soul must pass before it can enter Heaven. In Hell sinful deeds are punished, but in Purgatory it is not an action but a disposition, of which the sinner is purged. Here the soul welcomes suffering as an approach to the utmost felicity. There is terrible suffering, but suffering always borne with content. The shades of Purgatory have the semblance of the earthly body, but they are subject to no fleshly need, though susceptible to pain and pleasure...
Madame Janauschek has the complete equipment of genius on the stage; that is to say, not only the utmost skill of her art, but the more divine gift of quickly stirring her hearers with the passion of the scene. Notwithstanding her achievements as Brunnhilda, as Medea, as Lady Macbeth, and as Queen Katharine; probably her most memorable contribution to the history of the stage is the double character of Lady Deadlock and the French maid Hortense in the adaptation of Dickens's Bleak House...
...Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn preached last night before an audience that crowded Appleton Chapel to its utmost capacity...
...appearance of the crew has deteriorated much since a week ago. Individual faults seem to have cropped out in several men who last week had all the appearance of trying their utmost for perfection in rowing. There is not that life and jump throughout the crew which was so noticeable last week. Perkins at No. 5 seems to be responsible for much of this, for he is inclined to rush out on his slide so fast that he has to wait at full reach, thus making a distinct hang. Jennings at No. 4 has lately changed from the starboard...
...shudder with horror at the uncouth roughness of the plot. The characters are in the main the same, the only marked difference being in the relative importance given to Phedre and Hyppolites; in the Greek, the play centres about the man, our only feeling towards Phedre being of the utmost contempt, such only as we might feel for the lowest of human beings; in the Latin play of Seneca the same is true, but when we come to the French this woman who has hitherto been of but secondary importance, suddenly steps to the front, she commands our attention, holding...