Word: gere
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mozart centenary is the occasion of a paper by Mrs. Amelia Gere Mason, entitled "Mozart - After a Hundred Years," which is fully illustrated, and appeals to a very wide and general interest in music, it being the first of a number of articles of high character on music to appear in the Century during the coming year. Mrs. Gere draws an exquisite comparison between Burns and Mozart which every lover of poetry and music should read. Says Mrs. Gere: "The genius of these men was unlike, and they differed widely in character as well as education, but there...
...student of French history and literature will enjoy a profusely illustrated article by Amelia Gere Mason on "Salons of the Empire and Restoration." The salons of Madame de Montesson, Mme. de Remusat, Mme. Recamier, and other brilliant women of that age are vividly described and penpictures are drawn of the wits and geniuses who frequented them. The causes that led to the decline of the salon are indicated-chief among which was the rise in power of the press, for when the press assumed the sovereignty, the salon was dethroned...
Woman receives a fair share of attention. Amelia Gere Mason's "Women of the French Salons" discusses those of the eighteenth century, and Helen Gray Cone discusses "Woman in American Literature...