Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given in Sanders, on Friday evening of this week. The lecture will be given by Mr. Bronson Howard, of New York, on "The Autobiography of a Play." The address cannot fall to be of great interest, for Mr. Howard is himself a highly successful playwright. He is the author of "The Banker's Daughter," "Young Mrs. Winthrop," and "One of Our Girls," all of which Harvard students have seen acted with pronounced success. Plays of Mr. Howard are at present on the boards at London, Paris, and New York. We understand that Mr. Howard will give some insight into...
...disadvantages he has succeeded in giving a very readable account of President Grevy. The career of this famous French statesmen, who has been prominent for so many years, is shown to be most interesting. Mr. Berenson writes a criticism of the comedy, The Revisor, by the Russian author Gogol. In spite of the fact that Mr. Berenson does not grasp his subject with the firmness which might be desired, yet his knowledge of early Russian literature and his thoughtful estimate of the piece in question, The Revisor, make what he says worthy of attention. Mr. W. W. Baldwin...
Professor L. W. Spring, author of "Kansas" in the American Commonwealth Series, will give up the chair of English Literature in the State University of Kansas to take that in Williams College. He was graduated at Williams in 1863. - Princetonian...
...there is a peculiar introspective tendency here discernable which is calculated to inspire an interest in the writer's philosophy. A critical essay by Mr. Fullerton, on Principal Shairp, is a uniform, well digested, though somewhat rambling, review of his life and thoughts. While the writer, perhaps, ranks the author of "Kilmahoe" too high among his contemporaries, the paper on the whole is calm and gives evidence of interest...
...would be well based. But such a mean has not been discovered. We are still forced to wade, knee-deep at times, through a mass of personal reminiscences some trivial and unmeaning, others nauseous and repulsive, to arrive at a just conception of a writer, not only as an author, but also...