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...vices of his time in thoughtful and didactic works. Labiche, nevertheless, borrowed much from Moliere, and, in fact he and his contemporaries were "gleaners of Moliere's harvest." One of Moliere's most successful types, that of the bourgeois who is bold abroad but with his wife "timide," is often well used by Labiche. "L'Auvergnat," acted by the Cercle Francais in 1888--"Le Voyage de M. Perrichon" and "La Poudre aux Yeux," also produced by the Cercle, are three of his most successful plays. Others of his best known works are "Le Chapeau de Paille d'Italie," "La Cagnotte...
...marked the beginning of the realist movement which is still dominant. The Jews have a strong artistic sentiment, and value their plays, not as sources of amusement, but as true reflections of their surroundings. Their realistic plays have many faults; they are too harrowing in detail, and they are often grossly incongruous. But with all their faults they have great force and great sincerity, for the playgoers are critical and the drama which they approve must be sternly true to their everyday life...
...greatest events and periods of the world's history, and traces and records of these periods, now being obliterated, could be brought to light by careful scientific search. Caverns hewn in the rock and various stone implements of a prehistoric age have been discovered, and relics are often found of the period of the rule over Palestine of the Babylonians and Egyptians, the Phoenicians, the Philistines, the Jews, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Crusaders, and the Turks...
...daring conclusions, yet on essential points and in general theory agrees with him. He believes that to Hervieu is due unstinted praise for the sincerity, the eloquences and the talent with which he has defended the love marriage against the "mariage de convenance" and the "mariage de raison," so often opposed to the invincible instinct of love...
...Advocate is well defined by its comparison with the other College publications: "The pages of the CRIMSON," the writer says, "are interesting as a literal record of facts that concern us; the pages of the Lampoon, as a warped reflection of such facts, as satire, which, though often crude, is based on fact. The Advocate has a more difficult role to perform; avoiding literalness on the one hand and exaggeration on the other, it must utilize this same material of fact and make it interesting...