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...program at the pops concert in Symphony Hall tonight: 1. March from "Tannhauser" Wagner 2. Overturn to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai 3. Waltzes from "Der Rosencavalier" R. Strauss 4. Fantasia, "Faust" Founod 5. Suite from the Ballet "Sylvia" Delibes 1. Les Chaeseresses. 2. Pizzicato. 3. Cortege do Bacchus. 6. Sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor" Donizotti 7. Norweigian Dance No. 2 Grieg 8. Second Hnngarian Rhapsody Liszt 9. Bacchauale from "samson and Delilah" Satnt-Saens 10. Large, Sole violin Mr. J. Hoffman Randel 11. American Patrol Meacham
However, looking the present bravely in the face--if certain dear, but over-enthusiastic ladies, and certain learned but we fear misguided gentlemen, insist that Bacchus bow gracefully in exit to Fortuna...
...Poet should most assuredly go into the next collected volume of Advocate verse. One might quarrel with Mr. Witter Bynner ('02) for disturbing buried desires; for no sooner has the Editorial with Common Sense buried King Spirits than along come most enchanting pictures of Cantors, with numberless grapes and Bacchus with "viney patterns of the veining of his nose." After that the Freudian wish is no more and the sole remaining bottle "though it doubles me rheumatic" is drained to Socrates! In striving for a sustained note Mr. Norris succeeds rather better than do Mr. Auslander and Mr. Cole, though...
...January number of the Monthly is, despite some falterings, pagan in spirit as well as form. Not only do the faun and Bacchus sport upon the cover, but also there is keen sincerity in the written work. If the contributors are almost always conscious in their pose and if sometimes the strain is over-obvious, this is no fault of theirs: in our world sanity cannot be unconscious...
...unadorned humor is a gift rare indeed. The saints stirring "uneasily in their thrones" shows the white flash of genius. Mr. Fay's "By Olympus," not-withstanding the "hymadryads" (this issue is defaced by misprints on almost every page), is another little master-piece of delicate comedy. A Bacchus that smiles in his sleeve is surely a god we may all worship. A pleasing prose-poem and Mr. Wright's severe indictment of Chesterton are the most worth-reading of the other prose-contributions...