Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...upon to render judgment upon the new play "Polyeuctes" by P. Corneille. Though even these dry, narrow critics were carried away by the power of the play, they felt that it would never do to encourage so original and imaginative an effort, and accordingly they condemned it because its author had had the audacity to introduce the Christian religion as an important factor in his work...
...quite familiar; and yet the justification of the book appears not only in fresh and vivid restatements of well-known views, but in occasional entirely original discussions, with much fruitful suggestiveness concerning not only Shakspere, but literature, art, and life. Even when one violently disagrees with the author, one is almost sure to learn something; which is perhaps the highest tribute that can be paid to the professional teacher...
...book suffers a little from a trait noticeable in some other writings of this author an irrepressible fondness for paradox. Perhaps it is necessary nowadays to talk about Shakspere paradoxically, if one expects to receive any attention; but paradox too often passes for originality...
...famous class of 1829 of Harvard, there are since the death of Holmes only four surviving members: Dr. Edward L. Cunningham of Newport, R. I., Rev. Samuel May (the class secretary) of Leicester, Rev. Samuel F. Smith of Newton (the author of "America"), and Chas, S. Storrow of Boston...
...2tANOTHER powerful play by Sydney Grundy, author of "Sowing the Wind" and other successful dramas, is booked for two weeks beginning January 7, at the Columbia Theatre. "A New Woman" will be presented by Mr. A. M. Palmer's company from Palmer's Theatre, New York, and will include such eminent artists as Wilton Lackaye, Mr. E. M. Holland, Miss Virginia Harned, Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Charles J. Richman, Madeleine Bouton, Reub Fox, Georgia Busby, Emily Seward, Thomas Terris, Harry Halliday, and Annie Russell. "The New Woman" has already had its initial production in New York and has created...