Word: readings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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WEATHER STRIPS, Outside Windows, to keep out the wind and cold are now being put on by Powers, 30 Boylston street, Read's Building...
WEATHER STRIPS, Outside Windows, to keep out the wind and cold are now being put on by Powers, 30 Boylston street, Read's Building...
...urging our readers to attend the Authors' Reading to be held in Sander's Theatre on the evening of Feb. 27th, we feel that we are advocating a highly worthy object. It may, perhaps, be well to state that the reading is given in aid of the Longfellow Memorial Fund, and that several well-known authors, among them Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, have promised to read selections from their works. The entertainment cannot fail to be interesting, and the object is so worthy that we are anxious to impress on all that...
WEATHER STRIPS, Outside Windows, to keep out the wind and cold are now being put on by Powers, 30 Boylston street, Read's Building...
...Assemblies" of Al Hariri, selections from which were read last night by Mr. Jewett, although one of the greatest works of Arabic literature, are almost completely unknown to the western world. They are written in the most elegant Arabic and are often learnt by heart. The plot is simple throughout, as there are only two characters, a narrator and a clever adventurer, who passes his time in duping kindhearted people by pious speeches. The assemblies are so called because the events related took place before a number of people gathered together. The ninth one describes how the adventurer was brought...