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...Darkey's Jubilee, Turner...
...most delightful character sketches which has appeared in the Advocate for some time is "The Awakening of Benjamin Franklin" ("last name, Jones," as the author himself parenthetically states). It is a little darkey of thirteen years, for whom heroine-worship does wonders, that the author describes and the touches of local color are carefully laid on. It is distinctly the best piece of prose in the issue...
...authors of these charming daily and fortnightly themes have any literary vanity (which, mind, we do not say they possess), we have no occasion to cross them. On the contrary, we have nothing but praise for such dainty bits of character delineation as "My Village," "An Original Darkey," "Sancta Simplicitas," "My First Psychological Experience," "A Side Light,"- for such bright and original descriptions as "Youth," "In the Crowd," "A Face," "Broken Butterfly"- for such an able biographical paper as that on "Newman and Kingsley,"- and many other pieces delicate in fancy and execution, of which only lack of space (that...
...Long Charles" is an interesting character sketch of a negro, "one of those questionable characters who hang about respectable neighborhoods, doing odd jobs for the house-wives and filching a living from back doors." The dialect of the darkey is not always consistent, but on the whole the sketch has some power...
...were warmly received by a large audience in Elliot Hall. The programme was, in the main, made up of selections used on the western trip. Of the two organizations, the Banjo Club, was evidently the favorite, and easily carried off the honors of the evening. The rendering of the "Darkey's Dream," finding especial favor with the audience The Glee Club was not quite up to its usual high standard and showed signs of lack of rehearsing. It is to be hoped that the want of interest which evidently prevails to a certain extent among some of the members...