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...play is a stern Icelandic drama in four acts by Johann Sigurjonsson, which has been translated from the origina Danish recently by Henninge K. Schanche. The story is based upon historical events, dealing especially with the peculiar outlaw code of Iceland. These two performances constitute the second of the Thornton M. Ware memorial productions, and the second set of performances given by the Workshop this season...
...play deals with the peculiar outlaw code of this northern island and the main action centres around the love story of one of its victims...
...follows a theme which inadequate character analysis makes unnatural and unpleasant, despite a touch of boldness in the writing. "Mac's Aunt," by R. G. Fuller, is amusing in a way, but quite without quality. "The Model Farce," by T. Ybarra, is too extravagant for any discussion. "Billy's Outlaw," by P., shows some vivacity and novelty, but has an improbable ending. The magazine contains an enthusiastic book review and an earnest editorial...
...excellent story of the running down of an outlaw in the West, is told under the title of "A Lone Star Ranger," by W. Jones '00. The western tone of the article is enhanced by the rough colloquial style in which it is written. In "Charles Lamb as a Critic," W. Morrow '00, attempts to show Lamb's comparative powers of criticism in different works and subjects. "Before the Wind," a sketch by R. C. Bolling '00, is a vividly drawn picture of a storm...
...most familiar and unfamiliar words were unequalled. His hold on a jury was that of absolute magnetism. All this school of oratory was swept away by the advance of the antislavery movement and its champion Wendell Phillips. A single public meeting made him an outlaw for life. He felt he should not have been a platform speaker, but a member of the United States Senate. How that was I can not tell, but it always imparted a touch of tenderness to me to feel that he had made a sacrifice for what he loved. In the anti-slavery school there...