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...somewhat lacking in the second which, however, is enlivened by specialties, a burlesque on Robespierre and several dances full of spirit and movement. The burlesque, though clever, will need cutting down; the act indeed would not lose by the omission of the quintette. The surprising and unexpected situations which abound in the play carry it along and give it great interest. In itself the play has but little plot and the book is of slight worth, but few Pudding plays have had such good music. The words too of the songs are wonderfully good. Undoubtedly the best figure...
Cherbuliez, a member of the French Academy, was born in Geneva in 1832. His works abound in philosophical discussions, and he has adopted the synthetic philosophy of Hegel, which consists in making two characters of the book represent diametrically opposite ideas and then embodying the best points of these two in a third character...
...been felt necessary to provide a place to take that of the saloons and dives which abound in this vicinity along Atlantic Avenue. It has always been hard heretofore to make any lasting effect on the sailors because the work of Sundays has not been supplemented by any other means; the work has been desultory. It is thought that, by means of the work during the week, this need may be fulfilled...
...told that the present lecture goes back to the foundation of the world. But the reality is not so bad as the sound; for although there is a wealth of allusions, there is little in the elasical literature of antiquity that bears importantly upon the subject. The Hebrew Scriptures abound in these allusiouns. Abraham paid the children of Heth four hundred shekels of silver of the cave of Machpelah. Job says, "Surely there is a vein for silver; the earth hath dust of gold." In the book of Daniel there is an account of the great image which Nebuchadnezzar...
...Department of Geology is preparing to send a party to Gay's Head, Martha's Vineyard, during the April recess, to examine the formation of the cliffs on that headland. The clay and sand strata of this section abound in fossil bones of the order of Cetaceans, to which the whale and the walrus belong. There are also leaf-beds of a representative of the order to which the gigantic red-woods of California belong...