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Wilde's imagination was never "fired," but of all stimulants to its lucubration the Orient was most potent. The masque concerns a charming maiden, Mah Phru, who consoled King Meng Beng while he awaited the coming of his Cingalese bride from Ceylon, bearing him two sons in the interim. When he returned to his palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants...
...WRITER in the Courant has been amusing himself by some slurs on Mr. Alexander Agassiz and his conduct at Springfield, said slurs beng backed by a clipping from the New Haven (!) Palladium of July 2. The half-made charge of unfairness in the Palladium time has proved unfounded; and we presume that time will also cause the Courant writer to be ashamed of having written a tirade which, while it convinces no one, can harm only the one who wrote...