Word: girls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...story of a bull-fight in South American, is well told and ends in quite dramatic fashion. It can hardly boast of much originality, however. "A Backward Glance" is very amusing. "Roses and Cypress" is a sympathetically told tale of the exciting love of a pretty Italian peasant girl and the misery it brought her. It smacks a little of the hero and Leander. One lays down this number with the agreeable feeling of having been entertained and of having had one's imagination stimulated. This is precisely the object which the Advocate should set itself and this number argues...
...tutor for a boy and a girl in a New England seashore home. Residence there required...
...sketch, "Mr. Blanc," which shows maturity of thought and excellent mastery of language. The task of describing a character is accomplished without the usual effect of wearying the reader. The idea of the whole sketch resembles in a way Hawthorne's "Christmas Banquet." Two stanzas on "A Dead Girl" are full of charm; the idea of death being "beguiled" by her smile is such a one as might have occurred to Heine. A rambling poorly-told story entitled, "Leaves Picked in a Cemetery" and some book notices make up the rest of the issue...
BOSTON THEATRE. "Bohemian Girl...
BOSTON THEATRE. Matinee, "Martha." Evening, "Bohemian Girl...