Word: pens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...power of the last two plays which have been discussed, was, as we have seen, in the appreciation of character and in the reality and truth with which events long since passed and scenes laid in far distant countries were brought before our minds by the mighty pen of the author; in Phedre we meet with events of the times of the ancient Greeks, clothed for most of us as in the mists and glamour of mythology, but here brought into the vivid light of our own times and appealing to us with the force of life itself...
...Hotel Rambouillet with its assemblage of wits, afterwards so well painted by the pen of Moliere in his Precieuses Ridicules, which was called upon to render judgment upon the new play "Polyeuctes" by P. Corneille. Though even these dry, narrow critics were carried away by the power of the play, they felt that it would never do to encourage so original and imaginative an effort, and accordingly they condemned it because its author had had the audacity to introduce the Christian religion as an important factor in his work...
...Richman, Madeleine Bouton, Reub Fox, Georgia Busby, Emily Seward, Thomas Terris, Harry Halliday, and Annie Russell. "The New Woman" has already had its initial production in New York and has created as much discussion and favorable criticism as any play has yet received from this gifted author's pen. The engagement of "The New Woman" is for two weeks...
LOST. - A Wirt fountain pen, medium point, chased holder. Kindly return to Thayer...
...will include a large number of Dr. Holmes's letters which have great interest and the rare personal charm which entered into his autobiographical work. The preparation of the book will in the nature of things take considerable time. But when it does appear, coming from Mr. Morse's pen, it cannot fail to be a literary event of the first importance, and an interesting contribution to our literature. The request of Judge Holmes that any persons having letters of Dr. Holmes will send them as loans to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, or to A. P. Watt, Esq., Hastings House...