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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second of Mr. John Blair's course of modern dramas, "Ties" (Les Teuailles), by Paul Hervieu, was given at the Tremont Theatre, yesterday afternoon. The play itself is representative of the tendencies of the modern French drama, and, as in many of its class, the author has been led by the purely psychological interest of his plot to overdraw his principal character, Robert Fergan, and to suit the demands of his climax rather than to fit the climax to his character. With this climax still in view, he has brought in a period of ten years between the second...
Professor R. L. Garner, author of "Speech of Monkeys," will address the Anthropological Society in the lecture room of the Peabody Museum tonight at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to the members of the University...
...Copeland will give the fifth in his series of lectures for the benefit of the Prospect Union, this afternoon at 4 o'clock, in Sever 11. It will be on Dickens. Next Wednesday afternoon will be the reading from the same author. Tickets, fifty cents, may be obtained at the door...
...place in the development of French literature, is given a careful, well balanced summary of the pre-classic period in France. Excellent reasons are advanced to prove that this staging of the play by the Cercle Francais will be its first presentation at any theatre. On the whole the author has shown pains-taking study of the authorities and excellent taste...
...peasant life on account of the simplicity of the subject and the valuations of the lights and shadows. The "Storm Clearing Off" is a good example of what can be done toward bringing out the effect of a mingling of clouds, rain and bog. In this picture the author has brought in a group of sheep which brings out the contrast of Nature with Life. Other pictures of mention are "Primrose Time," "A Nor' Easter," and "A Chat with the Miller...