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...Welldon '04, "Henry Esmond and the Pretender"--W. M. Thackeray...
...Lion at the Bier of his Father;" C. C. Scheffy '03, "Inaugural Address," Arthur; L. E. Swarts '03, "The Republic Never Retreats," A. J. Beveridge; S. Thurman '03, "Defense of Dreyfus," Zola; V. A. Tsanoff '04, "Ireland's Part in English Achievement," R. Shell; S. A. Welldon 'o4, "Henry Esmond and the Pretender," Thackeray, J. D. Williams '03, "An Incident in the Cuban Revolution," Davis...
...good, truth is better, and love is best of all" he once wrote, and he was about to take up that kind of writing which mirrors the moral ideals of the world, the law of which is love. If "Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's most powerful book, "Henry Esmond" was of all his works the best and noblest. Its charm does not lie in its rich and beautiful style, nor in the strength of its plot, nor in the accuracy of its historical description, but rather in the deep and tender sympathy and comprehension of human nature that Thackeray...
...Copeland's reading in Sever 11 tonight from Dickens and Thackeray will be from the following passages: From "Pickwick Papers," the passage in which the Pickwickians first meet Mr. Alfred Jingle, and "The Cratchets' Christmas Dinner"; from Henry Esmond, the part in which Lady Castlewood explains to Lord Hamilton Esmond's right to be present at the marriage of Beatrix; and from "Vanity Fair," the passage in which Rawdon Crawley surprises Becky with Lord Steyn; "The Cane-Bottom Chair," "The Age of Wisdom" and "The End of the Play...
...reading Dickens and Thackeray this evening--in Sever 11, at 8 o'clock--Mr. Copeland will select from "David Copperfield," "A Tale of Two Cities," "Henry Esmond," and "The Book of Snobs." The reading will include also "The Cane-bottomed Chair," Mr. Molony's Account of the Ball," and "The Ballad of Bouillabaisse...