Word: ets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Irving Babbitt, of the French Department, gave a talk last evening before the Cercle Francais, on "Victor Hugo et la Critique Contemporaine." The meeting was well attended...
Last evening in the Fogg Art Museum Professor de Sumichrast lectured on Goldsmith and Marivaux. He began by fully summarizing Goldsmith's play, "She Stoops to Conquer," and Marivaux's play "Le Jeu de I'Amour et du Hasard," quoting frequently from each. He proceded to draw a comparison between the two play wrights, vastly to the advantage of Marivaux. He said that Marivaux is superior to Goldsmith in construction and is more thoroughly artistic. In Marivaux's play the analysis is subtle and delicate, the characters carefully and minutely drawn, the interest concentrated throughout. Goldsmith's play is diffuse...
Best general references: James Bryce, American Commonwealth, I, 134-137; J. G. Carlisle, The Limitations of the Speaker, No. Am. Rev. 150: 382 et seq.; A. B. Hart, The Speaker as Premier in his Practical Essays, No. R. Q. Mills No. Am. Rev., 149: 664-670. T. Nelson, The Powers of the Speaker, Atlantic Mon., LXIV: 64 et seq.; Arena, V, 569-579 (Apr.); Johns Hopkins University Studies, XI, No. 2, The Speaker of the House of Representatives...
...Entr'acte, "Philemon et Baucis," Gounod...
...Royal Tambour et Vivandiere, from "Bal Costume," Rubinstein...