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...method of discovery, apparently, that stirs this scientist's sense of irony. With all its advancement, surgery has had to turn for this lesson to the pariahs of the profession, witch-doctors, fakirs, and miracle-workers of semi-civilized races. The exhibitions of professional tricksters, who astonish their audiences by self-inflicted torture, are often made possible and painless by this simple process of deep breathing. A French doctor, observing some of these semi-savage rites in Africa, drew his own conclusion, and the test of actual experiment was a satisfactory proof...
...Bruce nine tries to defeat the English, the figure nine has been accredited with extraordinary mystical powers. Fail once, then try eight more times, and on the ninth attempt success will result. If nine tries are too exhausting, three might do. "Thrice the brinded cat hath spowed," said the witch in Macbeth, and undoubtedly her use of the number was highly significant. But there are some numbers that apparently mean nothing...
...fourth scene is a welcome (though unintentional) lot-down. The next two again build terror, that ends in the shooting of the witch-doctor with the silver bullet which negro had intended to save for himself. The catastrophe is powerful in its contrasting mildness; the death of the emperor offstage, and the subsequent appearance of his body, verges dangerously on the anticlimactic. Perhaps it will sound like a plea of the sensational, but one cannot suppress a feeling that the play would end more effectively when the natives fire the fatal shots...
...that age of new geography and England's adventures taking practical possession of the globe, Shakespeare added something to her domain; he found the Forest of Arden, The Witch-haunted Scottish Heath, The Magic Isle of Prospero, and together with these in the Midsummer Night's Dream, he enters what was the most marvellous realm of its kind, the Fairy World. Large 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Constable, Ltd., London. Published at $3.75. Special price...
...names and roles of the singers in the cast are as follows: Aeneas, J. F. Lautner '21 Sailor, H. MacFadden '21 Sorcerer, M. A. Shattuck 2L Dido, Doris Underhill, Gr. Belinda, Mathilda Ward '20 Attendant, Lydia Lieder '21 First Woman, Martha Bliss '22 Second Woman, Frances Doane '20 First Witch, Mildred Ellis '21 Second Witch, Susan Thompson '20 First Sorceress, Isabel Kellock '22 Second Sorceress, Mary Olmstead '23 Spirit, Ann Gardner...