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Those who have had the rare good fortune to meet with this bird in the summer home say that is love - song is a delightful bit of bird melody, sweet and tender but with a wild plaintive ess which makes it peculiarly attractive, though it is delivered in such low tones that the listener must bevery close to the bird to hear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Visitors. | 1/13/1893 | See Source »

...number is the "Diary of a Nervou Invalid" by E L. Bynner. Other noteworthy articles in this number are "George William Curtis and Civil Service Reform" by Sherman S. Rogers, and "Penelope's English Experiences" by Kate Douglas Wiggin. The only poetry of the number "To a Wild Rose Found in October" is a pretty little song with just a touch of the serious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: January Magazines. | 1/3/1893 | See Source »

Both power and influence, then, are working for good. The saints mentioned in the text are the good people, the people who love justice, truth and right. The words of the text are no wild assertion or prediction but are a logical conclusion from the course of events. It is intended that we should all be saints in the sense of the word as used above, and this should constantly be the object of our endeavor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 12/5/1892 | See Source »

...begins in the minor and passes soon to the major on the same theme and then back again to the minor. The third is a very dainty, tasteful "Miuett" movement. The "Romanze" has a very mournful, pathetic character and suggests something like disappointed love. The fifth is a wild, furious climax to the whole story - perhaps a suicide in connection with the disappointed love. There is ample chance here for the play of feeling on the part of the musicians and feeling had its place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symphony Concert. | 12/2/1892 | See Source »

...same formation as the Springfield play, but this time the heavy groups were decoys, and the light groups, in the centre of which was Brewer and the ball, went sprinting off round the opposite end, till the ball was on Yale's 27 yard line. The spectators were almost wild with delight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TIE GAME. | 11/28/1892 | See Source »

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