Word: rue
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday's Boston Post had a very good review of James Russell Lowell's new book of poems, "Heartsease and Rue...
...worth doing well, and we would recommend to every nascent Victor Hugo - we are all such, of course - that instead of choosing topics that are easy to treat and hard to criticise - "Moonrise at Sea", "The Character of the Biography of Y", or "The Affair of No. 13 Rue Ghenna" - he should exercise his powers upon subjects less seductive, and harder to treat, perhaps, but affording greater opportunities for criticism, and less facility for masking bad work. It is easy to make a bad story about Antipodeans pass muster, whereas a faulty account of things nearer home stands abjectly...
...author of the Duchess Emilia, entitled "Draper." We must confess to a little disappointment in reading it, and dared we say it, we would remark that this article is not the feature of the magazine. C. O. Hurd, '86, has a critical article on Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," in which Poe is called to task for want of logic in his story. A strange thing, full of pathos and power is the personal reminiscence of J. S. Phillips, '85, entitled "Joe and I." It is well conceived and contains a psychological study of deep interest. "A Power...
...afternoon, the long procession begins to wind its way from the buttery up the centre of the Hall towards the high table. In front, the Boar's head is borne aloft, while the choir give the old song, "The boar's head in hand I bring, bedecked with rue and rosemary." S. Black, of Queen's, undertook the solo, which he rendered very well. We believe His Grace the Archbishop of York on one occasion bore the same part. The ceremony concludes with the distribution of holly and other green stuff by the Provost to those who are nearest...
...courses in the remaining sections would also be open to the special student. The instructions aims to be very exact. "Institutions and facts are laid down only as they actually exist. The historical and comparative method is largely followed. The address of the director, we may add, is 27 Rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris...