Word: duke
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interesting to know, therefore, that in the catalogue to be prepared, extracts in reference to the different pictures will be given from Mr. Ruskin's works, who will himself send on several water-color sketches. As it is highly probable that the collection of the Duke of Montpensier from Spain will be opened at the Athenaeum this spring, there will be no excuse for us, if we do not try to get some conception of art from the masters thus presented...
...Grand Duke Alexis has presented to the University of Michigan thirty volumes of the history and educational interests of Russia. - N. Y. Times...
...eleventh century is famous as having been the time of two men, of whom the one was conqueror of England, and the other was savior of the Church. Duke William is popularly believed to have had the qualities of a strategist and of a statesman, in addition to rare ability in conducting a pitched fight. Hildebrand is universally admitted to have been the ideal of an ecclesiastical hero: he had one purpose directing all the actions of his life, which was to make the Papal Church the supreme principality; he laid his plots deep, and was quick to seize every...
...Murdoch is an improvement on Mr. Wheelock, and his efforts were very satisfactory. Mr. Aldrich made a good Jacques, and spoke the lines with appreciation. It is a pity that the gentleman who played the Banished Duke could not have been banished from the stage as well as from his dukedom...
...Aldrich among the gentlemen, and Mrs. Poole as Lady De Winter, deserve praise; Miss Fisk as the Queen, and Miss Noah as Constance, made the best of their small opportunities, as did Mr. Maguinnis, who played Boniface. The remainder of the cast was wretched indeed. Mr. Murdoch's Duke of Buckingham was not only pointless and insipid, but aggressively bad. Porthos, the elegant, the accomplished, was made up after the manner of a Neapolitan brigand, and Mr. Norton's acting was, if anything, worse than his dressing. Mr. Clarke's impersonation of the jovial tar Seadrift was unique; being somewhat...