Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Monthly for November appeared on Saturday. The number opens with an interesting account of the Latin Play by Professor James B. Greenough. The author does not confine his remarks to the presentation of the "Phormio," which has been planned for next spring, but gives much valuable informotion about the New Comedy in general, to which the plays of Terence belong. Outside of the classical department, there are probably few who are familiar with the characteristics of Latin comedy, and even fewer who know anything whatever of the peculiarities of the verse employed in it. To the large majority, therefore, Professor...
...Persian and Jew," by John Rathbone Oliver follows "The Latin Play." It is an exposition of Omar Khayyam's theory of existence as shown in his great poem, the "Rubaiyat"; and the author draws attention to the errors in this doctrine by comparison with that of Isaiah, whom we may regard as the antithesis of Omar in ethical teaching. The article is very well written...
...author says in the preface: "I should like the book to be considered as a member of a series, to which other volumes, by other writers, will doubtless in due course be added; a seris deriving unity from the Turnbull foundation, and associated with the university, whose place among elder sisters is already one of such peculiar distinction...
...today's Advocate is an improvement on previous numbers;-it contains less poetry. Not only this, but one of the two pieces published is very creditable. "Cpnthia. A Pantoum," by Louis How, has no interest except for the peculiar style of rhyming which the author effects; but the sonnet by Treadwell Cleveland, Jr., is worthy of notice in that it departs from the usual custom of Advocate sonnets and gives evidence of a foundation of ideas and sentiment not wholly obscured by the demands of rhyme and meter. The author has just been elected to the board of editors...
Edward G. Knoblauch is the author of what is perhaps the vest article, entitled "Westward Bound"; but "Their Marriage was a Failure," by Luther W. Mott, and "God, Man and the Devil," both deserve praise. All three are short pieces, yet the plot of each is well developed and the interest of the reader is at once attracted and, what is rarer, is held to the end. Work of this kind will do much to raise the standard of the Advocate...