Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Boston Theatre. - Baker & Farron, in "A Soap Bubble," 7.45. This is a bright little comedy, something after the Charles Hoyt order, though totally lacking the coarseness which usually characterizes that author's works. Mr. Farron's eccentric movements with his hands are something so new in this line of acting that they are quite refreshing...
Among the later volumes in the American Commonwealth series, is a work by one of our most energetic and capable instructors, Dr. Royce, which has never received due notice in our columns. We refer to his book entitled "California," a careful account of the author's mother state, which gives in short space a very clear and adequate idea of the history of California during the most interesting period of its growth, the years from 1846 to 1856. Dr. Royce first gives an outline of the earlier history of the state, and then tells of the American as its conqueror...
...poetry makes up for the deficiency in quantity by excellence in quality. Mr. Houghton's "Ballad of April Days," reprinted from Mr. Adam's "April," is not equal in execution to former work of the author, but in subject is particularly pleasant, and in conception is really charming. But the sonnet by Mr. Santayana, which treats of faith, must be regarded as one of the most attractive, perhaps the most attractive feature of the April Monthly. It is something that calls for more than one reading, that does not leave the mind almost as soon as it has entered...
...these poems suggest real ability and poetic taste, Although in places the poetic sentiment seems to have been sacrificed to rhyme and metre and although many of the subjects can hardly be called new or said to be treated with any conspicuous originality, yet few will say that the author has made a mistake by going into print...
...first place, a play must be satisfactory to the audience. It must appeal generally to the audience as a whole, and not with especial force to a portion of it. To effect this, the author must deal with sentiments common to the generality of human beings; but in addition must have in view a clearly defined artistic result. In the "machinery" of the action, there must be nothing which shall be meaningless or contrary to the current of sympathies aroused by the play as a whole. The events must be managed in such a way as not to jar even...