Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...introduced Mr. E. Charlton Black, late of the University of Edinburgh. The subject for discussion was: "Shakspere; the Man." Recent talk about Shakspere, -Mr. Black began, has lead me to go over again the slender story of his life. He was a poet, an artist and a dramatist; the author of some forty works. Mr. Ruskin in his second Lecture on Art at Oxford said: "The highest thing that Art can do is to set before us the figure of a man." It is very proper then that we should turn to Shakspere, the glory of English and universal literature...
...Prof. Author Fairbanks is to succeed Prof. Porter in the Yale Theological School...
...Child in Literature," by S. C. Hart, is an interesting essay on the place of children in literature. The author shows how, from the first appearance of the child in the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth, authors have more and more come to write of children out of interest and sympathy with the very child itself...
...poetry of the number, "Verses," by P. H. Savage, is the best. It is simply written, and its metrical qualities are decidedly better than anything by the same author that we remember to have seen before. "The Amber-witch" is not up to Mr. Moody's usual standard. It is admirable in the impression of fantastical wierdness that it leaves, like a strange and unpleasant dream, but the versification is very rough in places, and the words are not always well chosen...
Letters heartily approving the scheme were read from Prof. Bryce, M. P., author of the "American Commonwealth;" Justin McCarthy, M. P.; Prof. Andrew Lang; Mr. Blackmore, the novelist; Archdeacon Farrar, Prof. Huxley and other persons eminent in literature...