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...music written for the Greek Play last June by Mr. J. E. Lodge has been published for the department of the Classics by Messrs. C. W. Thompson & Company of Boston, under the title "Aeschylus, Agamemnon: The Choral Odes and Lyric Scenes, set to music by John Ellerton Lodge." The book contains all the music of the play, with a piano accompaniment. It may be obtained at the Co-operative Store, Amee's, Sever's and Thurston's at $2 per copy...
...poetry, Mr. Walsh's "Indecision" contains some vaguely charming imagery-and is not without the grace, fluency and terseness that make for success in the highly artificial form he has chosen. It has clearly lyric quality. "The Racing Blood" of Mr. Husband opens most promisingly. The first two stanzas' description of the Greek foot-race and the Roman chariot race are full of speed, vigor and physical exhilaration; but the third stanza which attempted to trace the same racing instinct in the automobile race, and to give a moral twist to the whole is a woful breakdown. It is hardly...
...best essay by a student in any department of the University, or by a graduate of not more than three years' standing, on a subject drawn from the life and work of Dante. The Sargent prize of $100 is for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace, and is open to undergraduates in Harvard and Radcliffe. The lyric for this year is the thirty-seventh ode of the first book...
Franz Grillparzer, the author of the play, has been called the "German Racine." He was born in Vienna in 1791 and died in the same city in 1872, acclaimed the national poet of Austria. In addition to his plays he wrote much lyric and epigrammatic poetry, and some prose tales Grillparzer's plays are nearly all tragedies, and the one comedy which he produced was signally unsuccessful...
...Travel Papers of Arminius" is a study of Naples with its dirt and noise and charm--an attempt to grasp the soul of the city, necessarily a partial description, but interesting. The number is rich in poetry. "To a Centaur" is a pleasing fancy. "Apollo Satyros" has genuine lyric grace and sweetness of melody. "Lines in Egypt" express in very excellent quatrains the feeling of the mystery and immutability of that land (qualities that remain though the greater part of the population is half Arabic.) "Amour Cache" is said to be a translation from the French poets: it is remarkably...