Word: novels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Rene Doumic, literary critic of the "Revue des Deux Mondes," who is to give eight lectures during the first part part of March, in Sanders Theatre, under the auspices of the Cercle, will take as his subject "The French Romantic Movement during this Century, in Poetry, the Novel, the Theatre and other literary manifestations...
...reaction, however, from last year's do or die method of daily practice carries with it two dangers which must be strenuously guarded against. The first is a danger that the men themselves, selected partly on their past record, and treated with a novel tenderness, shall let up in their individual efforts, and fall into fatally listless habits. The other is that the coaches, unconsciously influenced by the same radical change, shall fail to infuse enough energy into the signal practice and short line-ups. After all the real object of the change is this-to get the chance...
...latest novel by Mrs. Prince "A Transatlantic Chatelaine," (Houghton, Mifflin and Co.) is hardly as good, considered as a story, as "Christine Rochefort," her first attempt, but as a picture of modern French society it is extremely interesting. An intensely Puritanical New England girl, left a rich widow, marries a French nobleman, chiefly for his title and later discovers that he is more or less of a blackguard. Some incidents of the Franco-Prussian war are woven into the plot in an interesting way, although there is no actual fighting. The characters are not as clearly drawn as some...
...other hand there are a few things as funny as could be desired, and in these spots, moreover, the number is up to date. It deals with the cap and gown; it makes legitimate sport of the parietal committee; and it parodies the latest novel with pronounced success...
...second act are all on undergraduate life and have already been described in the CRIMSON. In the third act they are of a more miscellaneous character, the best of them being a burlesque of the play "Secret Service," by Schurz, Woodruff, and Stillman, a burlesque of Anthony Hope's novel "Phroso," by Miller and Johnston, and a graceful skirt dance by Scaife and Fenno...