Word: friends
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Touchstone," and in it, Mr. Noyes declared that "Hamlet was not mad, nor was he pretending to be mad; he was putting on the disposition of the Fool in order to strike at the insincerity and unreality of the world about him. Hamlet derived his disposition from his former friend, Yorrick, the court jester, which friendship is emphasized and illustrated in the play by Hamlet's sad reminiscences in the grave-digger's scene...
...Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a valuable copy of the first authorized American edition of the book. It was published by Charles Scribner's of New York in 1886. The real interest in the book, however, centres about the inscription. Stevenson gave the volume in 1886 to his dear friend and collaborator in his dramatic works, William Ernest Henley. Four plays were written by the two writers, but most of the plays of Stevenson were unsuccessful. The four works were "Admiral Guinea," "Bean Austin," "Macaire," and "Deacon Brodie." The inscription Stevenson wrote on the fly-leaf is as follows...
...growth in wisdom, the accumulation of maturing years? Besides, poets are notoriously poor philosophers; even Dante has been suspected of heresy for placing Siger de Brabant in Paradise. And so Mr. Wright would beatify his "fair Pagan." "For he who going through life, embraces virtue like a friend--he it is who attains to the Perfect City and the Happy Islands...
...plot deals with the adventures of Tom Stewert, who for the sake of his friend, Dick Lockhart, plays the part of a long lost son. The developments are at all times obvious. Tom falls in love with a charming seamstress of good family, is besieged by a scheming adventuress, dashes heroically off on his horse to divert the officers of the law who are in pursuit of Dick, and returns to win his "heart o' th' heather...
...Lecture, under auspices of the Cercle Francais on "Our Friend--France" by Mr. Whitney Warren, of New York, in Emerson...