Word: adds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among our own illustrators, Dana Gibson and Abbey often eliminate from their pictures everything but the central figures. These tell the story, and tell it well, and furniture and surroundings would add little or nothing to the effect...
...first rule is always to have a centre of interest. Every detail must point towards the centre and must add rather than detract interest. When a good central subject has been chosen the next step is to find the point from which that subject may be most clearly brought forward. It is a good plan to make rough sketches from 10 or even 20 points, then lay them all out, and the most untrained can at once choose the best. The second rule is never to express in a painting more than the eye can take in at one glance...
Joseph Jefferson will come to the Boston Theatre on Monday, January 8, and give performances of "Rip Van Winkle." Praise for the player or commendation for the play would be supererogotory, for the first is so universally esteemed and the last so generally admired, that no words can add to the deserved popularity of either. For a generation "Rip Van Winkle" has been a perfect delight to theatre-goers of America, and to have seen Jefferson in the great role which he created will be a pleasant remembrance for all time. The present opportunities are limited to one weeksix nights...
Joseph Jefferson will come to the Boston Theatre on Monday, January 8, and give performances of "Rip VanWinkle." Praise for the player or commendation for the play would be supererogotory, for the first is so universally esteemed and the last so generally admired, that no words can add to the deserved popularity of either. For a generation "Rip Van Winkle" has been a perfect delight to theatre-goers of America, and to have seen Jefferson in the great role which he created will be a pleasant remembrance for all time. The present opportunities are limited to one week-six nights...
...University Catalogue for '93-'94 made its appearance. There are comparatively few changes beyond those incident to another year's growth. The facts published in another column are so explicitly stated and speak so plainly for themselves that they need little comment or explanation here. We can only add a word or two on the general tendencies which the figures and facts presented reveal. The first thing that suggests itself is the marked growth of the university spirit as opposed to the simple college spirit. Everything in the catalogue points to the gradual reaching out of the Harvard spirit into...