Word: satiricism
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Henri Meilhac (1632-1697), and Ludovic Halevy (1834) have published a great many operettas, vaudevilles, comedies, and even ballets and pantomines. They are parodists in "La Belle Helene" (1864), already satiric in "La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein. In Fronfrou (1869) they attained great success.
Mr. Theodore Roosevelt has criticised in your columns the vigorous protests made by various professors of this University against the warlike attitude suddenly assumed by the Washington government. Nothing but absence from home prevented me from adding my protest to that of my colleagues, and I am therefore sorry to...
Dr. Holmes' third paper of his "Over the Tea Cups," commences with a general talk of the company upon the subject of the last paper; then a witty comparison of Hadrian's hymn and Catullus' poem to Lesbia's sparrow, and the paper ends with a poem alluding to James...
Mr. Perry yesterday continued his lectures on English Literature. He devoted considerable attention to Addison's "Cato" and the dramatic tendencies of the age in connection with the rigid principles of "the three unities" in composition. The introduction of this principle into England and its only temporary prevalence there, was...