Word: greates
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...then been counted marvels great...
...press of this country has maintained an unaccountable silence with regard to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, whose death has recently been chronicled. Despite the prevailing custom among journalists of giving a brief sketch of the lives of great men, upon their demise, this honor has been denied Bulwer to a remarkable extent. An author deserving to rank among the foremost of our day has been removed from a life of activity and usefulness, in his sixty-seventh year, - an event which has elicited hardly an expression of regret from our leading journals. From a Boston paper we learn that...
...light-comedy powers have full scope, and we recognize them to be of high order. Her support was very good. Mr. Sheridan, as the wayward Stephen, made a part interesting which, in the hands of an inferior actor, would have been stupid if not laughable. Miss Orton did herself great credit in the part of Stella. Mr. Allen was careless and unappreciative in his rendering of the Prefect...
Boston Theatre.Miss Neilson made her first appearance in Boston, on Monday night, in Romeo and Juliet. We have never before seen this part performed by an actress of great ability, and thus we lack anything with which to compare Miss Neilson's impersonation; but, judging it by itself, we think that it proves the lady to possess, not great genius, surely, but the highest talent. This, combined with her undeniable beauty of person, renders us loath to criticise. Her comedy in the first three acts was brilliant, but not wonderful; her tragedy in the last two acts simply magnificent...
...good colleges of Great Britain and Ireland the tendency of late years has been toward a weekly or daily supervision of studies. At Cambridge and Oxford . . . . teaching is conducted, not by loose lectures of professors, but by numerous erudite tutors . . . . who rigidly insist that pupils be present and do their work...