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...history, has been appointed a member of next year's faculty as a professor in the department of history. Since 1919, Professor Schlesinger has been head of the history department at the University of Iowa. He is a member of the board of editors of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, and a member of the American Historical Association and the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. He is also the author of several books...
Patience. It has long been the experience of diligent navigators that it is difficult to look through a folded-up telescope. Some similar difficulty was encountered in watching this capsule review of one of the best of Gilbert and Sullivan. It was produced at the tiny Provincetown Playhouse where three's a crowd on the stage and where the auditorium has all the lofty spaciousness of a doll's house. Necessarily, therefore, the "20 lovesick maidens we" of the opening chorus were reduced to ten, the dragoons enlistment was meagre, the orchestra minute and the vocal acrobatics tempered...
...Author. Oscar W. Firkins, Minneapolis born, teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, whence he was graduated in 1884. He has long been familiar to readers of drama and poetry criticism in The Nation, The Yale Review and other periodicals. His other two large efforts are studies of Emerson and of Jane Austen...
...protest. For weeks past it has been to me a source of extreme haemeotropiros to peruse the languid quaintness of your dramatic reviews, from which I invariably recover (than my lucky stars!) with a realization that the unfortunate play, or playwright, or manager, or both, have been surreptitiously pen-handled by the critic. But I forgive him--now, for I have discovered that only innocence or naivete has produced the effect of an apparently learned discussion of so learned a topic as the stock performance of a play only recently produced on Broadway by much superior talent, which play, after...
...courageous; but, although his volume is not yet on sale; it is a good wager that the average of his selections will fall considerably below the poetic level of those delectable lines on "The Young Plumber of Leigh", which Mr. Bennett, if correctly quoted in the international book Review, puts forward as his favorites...