Word: reader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...high order. The climax of the story is very thrilling and the incidental dissertation of Mexican scenes are realistic. "The Swiss Yankee" is the title of an admirable bit of descriptive writing. The Swiss landscape in all its peacefulness and silent grandeur seems lying stretched out before the reader, while the account of the little guide has in it a vein of pathos which adds greatly to the sketch. The fate of an artist who fell in love with a ghostly maiden is told in "A New England Legend." It is very concisely written and does not lack interest. "Topics...
SEMITIC SEMINARY. Reader: Mr. J. R. Jewett. Subject: "Moslem Art in Syria." 7 Lowell...
...MONDAY.SEMITIC SEMINARY. Reader: Mr. J. R. Jewett. Subject: "Moslem Art in Syria." 7 Lowell...
...What is aimed at in the elocution sections is temperate, exact and adequate presentation, and these are things which it behooves every man to know. How often is the reading of a newspaper article or some paragraph from a book completely unintelligible owing to the wretched presentation of the reader, who has no conception of the proper means of making the matter understood! We hear more slovenly enunciation and villainous pronunciation than we hear careful and correct, for the main reason that men have not had their attention drawn to their mistakes and they continue in blunders which a little...
...Parsons Lathrop gave "October Snow" and "Keenan's Charge." Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly followed with a number of epigrams, which were enthusiastically received; also the poems "Ensign Epps" and "In Bohemia." Mr. Charles Follen Adams amused his audience greatly by his recital of "Little Jacob Straus." The last reader who rendered original selections was Miss Charlotte Fiske Bates, to whose untiring exertions the entertainment of the evening was entirely due. Her most applauded poem was a "Quatrain on the Years." The programme was truly a literary feast, and it was thoroughly enjoyed by every one present...