Word: poems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of the "Atlantic Monthly" contains a more than usual amount of good reading matter, which is saved from making the number heavy by the variety of subjects treated. The number opens with a dialect story of country life by Sarah Orne Jewett. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's poem upon Napoleon III., entitled "The Last Caesar," a reverie in the Tuileries gardens, is one of the strongest of his later productions. Mr. William Chauncey Langdon contributes a sketch of Marco Minghetti, the lately deceased Italian patriot. Clinton Scollard's poem, "The Maenads" is carefully written, but does not have the spontaneity...
...Leahy in lines rather incoherent but evidencing at every turn true poetic power draws a moral from "Dante's Francesca." Mr. Leahy possesses sense, and the present poem with more polish would be admirable. Mr. Berenson in a lengthy paper on "Was Mohammed at all an impostor?" tells in his best vein the story of the great heresiarch. We question the clearness of Mr. Berenson's answer, but acknowledge the peacefulness of his pen in matters ethical. The paper is strong though somewhat involved...
...Oppenheim is a strong writer. Although few readers will remember his first poem "Sun Hvmn," published in an early number of the "Monthly" to those who read it, his work was stamped with artistic legality. Here, in a tale of "Two Trips to Lake George" we have a cleanly cut, well-told story, which is so true to life and so dramatically rehearsed, that the hearts of not a few who read it will beat a little quicker in sympathy...
...Easter hymn was sung by the Ladies' chorus and a poem read by the Rev. S. L. Taylor, '61. It was much curtailed in order to save time...
...exercises at the opera-house will begin at eleven a.m. The orator of the day will be Mr. Frederic R. Coudert, '40. the poem will be read by the Rev. Dr. George Lansing Taylor, '61, and honorary degrees will be conferred. In the evening there will be a reception given by the president, faculty and alumni in the great library hall on the college grounds, and all the college buildings will be lighted and open for inspection. All the alumni, whose addresses, are known have been invited to attend, and a large number are expected. - N. Y. Evening Post...