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...shattered statue in the desert, bearing this inscription, inspired Shelley with poetic irony. How much greater must the irony have seemed to the excavators in Professor Reisner's expedition, when they brought to light on the Upper Nile a long dynasty of ancient monarchs, kings of Ethiopia for four centuries, now forgotten for more than two thousand years. Archaeology is generally considered as dry as the dust in which it works; but the account of Professor Reisner's discoveries just made public by the University, tells a romantic story. Here is a subject ready to the hand of a sentimental...
...dancing. There is enough of it in the two acts to supply three ordinary musical shows and make any one a Droadway success. Seldom is it the privilege of a Boston audience to witness such a graceful exhibition as that givenly Miss Francesca Braggiotti in her "Spirit of the Nile" dance, and again, accompanied by her sister, in the tango in the second act. The "Waitress Dance," beautifully done by a chorus of ten, is the best bit of group dancing in the play. Then there is a performance by an "Octette" which makes the "Flonaltra" Sextet look miserable...
Then comes another "war" story--with nothing in it about warfare; then a poem about "the 'pyrus' of the Nile" (we take this to be some new-fangled allegory on those famous banks); then another poem about "our reckless youth," as brilliant as the dullest of the dull spots in a certain older poet; and then a one-act play which with twice as much dramatic spirit would have almost half enough for half...
...Delta, so named because, like the Nile, it suffers a yearly spring overflow, where, from his brazen seat, John Harvard frowns down at these roystering children of a frivolous generation, the banquet boards of 1917's hospitality will rest. And in Memorial Hall the ingrained odor of cabbage and beef from ten thousand dinners will be temporarily smothered under the fragrance of rose-water and culled flowers...
...only wastes of Arctic snow--remain to be explored--The record of the latest discoveries of the Harvard Egyptian Expedition, under Dr. George A. Reisner, as related by him to an Associated Press correspondent at Cairo, is surely a story of romance. The expedition had gone far up the Nile, to Napata, in the province of Dongola, on that stretch of the great river where, after its plunge at the Mograt cataract, it turns southward, to plunge once more and to bend northward again at old Dongola. This is the region where ancient Egypt merged into Ethiopia, and where...