Word: reals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speaking last night was very creditable and the delivery was especially pleasing. The weaknesses were want of form in massing points, a bad tendency to make unsupported statements and to draw unauthorized inferences, and evident inability to judge the real value of an argument. Though, because of these faults, there was no really strong speech, the speeches were all equally fluent and energetic...
This author (whose real name is Miss Murfree) has again come before the public after a silence of several years, and again writes of that region which she has already made familiar to the reading public-the Tennessee mountains...
...performance are completely successful. The scenery makes an appropriate back ground for the costumes, which are of great richness, and merely as a series of striking pictures the play is worth seeing. Added to this, however, the acting of the characters in the cast, almost without exception, is of real merit...
...play did not win the admiration it deserved, "Athalie," in fact was far ahead of its time, it was written for posterity. The protagonist never appears. The real hero is never seen, for that hero is Jehovah the God of the Hebrews working through the agency of the High Priest...
...speaking was vigorous and pleasing, but even the difficulty of handling well so broad a subject in so short a debate did not excuse the absence of any real arguments on the part of the principal disputants. The speakers from the house showed a better conception of the question, however, and approached the debate in a better manner...