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...artistocratic Englishwoman that Miss Barrymore is unconvincing. She is in no sense a Briton, and the fact is painfully apparent, particularly when the scene is laid in England. In the later portions of the play, surrounded by Americans, she succeeds, largely because of contrast, in putting across her characterization, but by that time the audience is willing to take almost anything at its face value. Outside of this weakness, one almost entirely of nationality, Miss Barrymore is superb. She not only develops a character, but she lives it; more could not be asked...
...Forum," C. F. Thwing '76, president of Western Reserve, writes on the question, "Should Woman's Education Differ from Man's?" Professor Simon Newcomb '58 contributes to the "Popular Science Monthly," "Chapters on the Scars," F. T. Cooper '86 has in the "Bookman" a review of "An Englishwoman's Love Letters...
...recent work upon "The Myths of the Odyssey," by an Englishwoman, Miss Harrison, is meeting with a great success in England. "We are indebted to Miss Harrison for laying down the lines upon which the Greek myths can be studied," says the Academy; and the Athenoeum declares that "it is only just to say that we are not acquainted with any book produced by any man at either university which does so much for the popular knowledge of ancient art as this work by a student from one of the Cambridge colleges for women." The author of this book...