Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brilliant Failure" is, on the whole, the best of the larger articles of the number. It is a well-told story. It is the parable of the master, the servants, and their talents modernized...
Sever 11 was filled last evening for another of Professor Cohn's brilliant lectures on political questions...
...know Sarah Barnhardt is to confess yourself unknown, and not to go to see this brilliant French actress and contortionist is to miss a most delicious dramatic feast. Verbum sapis...
...Skipper's Tale" is a short war story, related by a Yankee, whose dialect is not always consistent. The not particularly brilliant touch of semiprofanity at the close of the article does not add to its force...
...Although Cherubini wrote this overture many years ago, he uses the trombones and other instruments in quite modern style, and introduces several grand climaxes. The second piece was a concerto for piano in C minor, by St. Saens. Mrs. Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler played the solo part in a very brilliant manner, overcoming with little effort the technical difficulties of the work. Her tone and touch were sympathetic and thoroughly musical, while her dashing style of execution carried the audience with her from beginning to end. The cencerto itself was interesting, but not remarkably so. The use of the various instruments...