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...Moody has published and is happily free from the vagueness with which certain of his former poems have been dashed. While there are touches here and there which remind one of Browning, the conception of the poem as a whole shows a thoughtful originality, the simile of the martyr being particularly felicitious. The diction of the poem is admirable throughout and the mere metrical work is flawless...
...last number of the Advocate contains the best story that has appeared in that periodical for a long time. Though the "Twentieth Century Martyr" savors a little of the burlesque and would require some toning down to satisfy certain sticklers about good taste yet it is exceedingly witty and ingenious. The plot is amusing and is worked out with snap. Certain allusions to a respectable English lady novelist of the early part of this century will be appreciated by most of the readers of the story...
...intellectual than religions. Of this, war and the doctrine of evolution were the great causes. But with the coming generation there is to be a change. The problems which will confront them will be human problems, and because intensely human therefore divine. Christianity is now developing, instead of the martyr or the reformer, the man who will use the world for his own large, true, Christian ends. The forces at present at work on young life are a craving for serious results in thought and a desire to make the most of one's self. With the last generation...
...Sacking;" Fifth Avenue- "The Begun;" Harrigan's "Pete;" Star- "Faust;" 14th Street- Denman Thomson in the "Old Homestead;" Niblo's- Joseph Jefferson in "Rip Van Winkle;" Poole's- "The Ticket-of-Leave Man;" Wallack's- Thursday evening, "School;" Friday evening, "Caste;" Daly's- "Railroad of Love;" Madison Square- "The Martyr;" Grand Opera House- "A Parlor Match...
Professor Dyer's "Iphigeneia Martyr" is an interesting study of one of the figures of tragedy that have a lasting influence to this day. His treatment of the subject is scholarly, as every one expected it to be, coming from him, and is marked by a broadness that is an encouraging sign of the work we may expect from him when he devotes himself entirely to belles lettres. It is to be regretted, however, that the interesting thesis of the title, "Iphigeneia Martyr," is not more consistently carried, and this, perhaps, mars the balance of an otherwise delightful essay...