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...Eddy is certainly not poetry. "Melancholy" by Eugene Warner is rather below this author's former work. The simile in this last, "like an Oriental steeped in oblivious drug, insensate lying" is not pleasing. "On the Progressive Motion of One's Best Foot" by C. M. Flandrau is the cleverest thing in the number. It is written in an entertaining style and consists of some rather cynical advice as to how to make a good impression in society...
Perhaps the cleverest bit of prose in the number is W. F. B.'s "Tatler Paper" after Sir Richard Steele. Its author has reproduced Steele's style in an admirable manner, and throughout the whole there is charming vivaciousness of touch. The appended verses show a commendable delicacy...
...usual, the "College Kodaks" form a very interesting part of the number. The first is the cleverest and most animated of the four, and the second the most delicate in sentiment...
Perhaps the cleverest bit of prose in the issue is a half story, half sketch, by Austin Smith, entitled "Moontide." The scene of the events narrated is Boston and its surroundings, the Harvard Bridge and the Charles River, and the very familiarity of the background breeds not a contempt but a pleasure. The sketch-for it is, perhaps, more of a sketch than a story-gives in a few pages a delineation, at once life-like and pleasurable, an architect, poverty-stricken, aristocratic, and fairly intellectual, and of a concomitant fellow-being.- a governess,- with whom the architect eventually falls...
...Museum Company continue their charming presentation of old comedies with Holcroft's "The Road to Ruin" this week. The play is interesting though not brilliant nor especially witty, but the acting is very even and satisfactory. The cleverest assumption is the character acting of Mr. Barron as Mr. Silky. Messrs. Plympton and Wilson and Miss O'Leary also made decided successes. "London Assurance" will be given Thursday and the rest of the week...