Word: joans
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...abroad for three years. On returning to America he was engaged in teaching in New York City but since 1904 he has devoted his time almost exclusively to writing plays. He is the author of two works on "The Canterbury Tales" of Chancer, "Fonris the Wolf, a Tragedy," and "Joan d'Are," which has been produced by Mr. E. H. Sothern and Miss Marlowe in America and England...
...think that the version given by Miss Kalisch was liberally cut down; it is too far removed from actuality; it has too little action: it is too poetical. Even the exaggerated popularity of Sothern and Marlowe could hardly have supported this play and that was all that made "Joan of Are" successful on the stage. Indeed, what was not enough to draw the public in the very competent hands of Miss Kalisch would have been ludicrous if Miss Marlowe had acted it-and would probably have drawn a little better. But if we are brave enough and perhaps optimistic enough...
...from the reading-room shelves at the end of the year--such books as Story's "Commentaries," 2 volumes; Adams's "Life of John Adams"; Thayer's "Cases on Constitutional Law"; Drake's "Landmarks of Boston"; Dowden's "Studies in Literature"; Abbott's "Shakespearean Grammar"; F. C. Lowell's "Joan of Arc"; Gardiner's "Story of Florence"; Calkins's "Problems of Philosophy"; Spencer's "First Principles"; Maudsley's "Physiology of the Mind"; Flynt's "Tramping with Tramps"; and others. This number, of course, is in addition to those which have disappeared temporarily and came back again. This year the second...