Word: scene
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...story, "Elsie's Paladin," is a fanciful tale of a boy and a girl, two playmates,-a half-fairy-story in which there is a touch of the weird and fantastic German folk-lore. The first page of the story reminds one of Hawthorne's "Ethan Brand." While the scene of the tale is faid in New England, the names of the characters, the incidents and peculiarities of treatment are entirely German, and bring to the mind's eye the "Black Forest" of Germany and the folk-tales which are its inheritance. Though the ending is almost too abrupt...
...fear that it will freeze in the pipes; but as soon as the weather grows a little warmer the water will be turned into the pipes. Everything at the boat house is in first-class condition and it looks now as though this spring would see the house a scene of even greater activity than it was last year...
...Hollis St. Theatre Monday evening, "Blue Jeans" made its first appearance before a Boston audience. It is familiarly known as "the buzz-saw play" since the leading feature of this comedy drama is the mill scene of the third act in which a buzz-saw is introduced and plays an important part. The old familiar adage "Do not monkey with the buzz-saw," taken both in its figurative and literal sense, seems to be the moral inculcated by this play...
...with St. Saviour's and the Bankside that a youth intended for the church even then, and maybe possessing budding Puritan principles, may not have been unconscious of; while those evidences which lay about him might have given some strain to his devotional instincts. The upholders of the mimic scene were quite as striking figures in the boy's memory of what in Southwark he may have seen and must have heard. He could hardly have remembered the "forenoone knell of the great bell," as the church records tell the story, when Edmund Shakspere, in 1607, was buried...
...Love as an Extra," by Norman Hapgood-the only fiction in the number-is not a story of action or of incident, but rather one of character delineation. The different moods of the hero are vividly drawn, and although the scene with the other principal character-the heroine-does not seem to have the force it should possess, the story as a whole gives a clear and correct picture of one of a class of men who, as the author says, "were prominent at Harvard a decade...