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...Hasty Pudding Club, at their spring theatricals, will present an original extravaganza, entitled Constance or The Beau, The Belle and The Bandit. The dates are: Philadelphia, April 7. New York, April 9 and 10. Boston, April 19, 20 and 21. Due notice of sale of tickets will be given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/16/1888 | See Source »

...literature of France and Italy? "Larli and Magnun" has been translated into English by Mr. James Atkinson, who has also translated Firdansi's "Shah-Nameh," the history of the ancient kings of Persia. Or why did Mr. Emerson not speak of the "Adventures and Improvisations of Kourroglou," the bandit minstrel of North Persia, whose heroes remind one of those of "Cervantes and Ariosto"? Kourroglou's lament at the death of his steed Ayrat is one of the most beautiful and pathetic elegies in Oriental literature. Why did not Mr. Emerson expatiate on those three bright stars of the literary firmament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCOURTEOUS CRITICISM. | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

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