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...view chosen by the artist permits of every detail in the two boats, which form the central subject of the picture, being clearly delineated. The larger one, seen from fore to aft, is lifted up on the crest of a wave surging against her side; the passengers and seamen crowding on the deck are painted with unusual animation and attention to detail. The warm-colored sails are brought down in beautiful reflections in the limpid water of the trough of the sea, and the transparent surface of the large wave at the left is finely relieved by a touch...
...conclusion Mr. Noyes read three more poems, "The Highwayman" a romantic ballad, "The Forty Singing Seamen" a farciful narrative of much humor, and a poetic presentation of "The Creation...
...clothing will be distributed among local charitable organizations, but most of the text-books will be kept in the Phillips Brooks House loan library, to be used by students on payment of five cents per volume. The magazines will be sent to the seamen's mission and later distributed aboard ships...
...shirts, together with pajamas, a large quantity of underwear, socks, neckties and gloves and 75 hats and caps. Over 300 pounds of magazines and text-books were also received. This has been distributed as follows: one case of clothing to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee; one case to the Seamen's Friend Society for shipwrecked sailors, Boston; one case to the Cambridge Associated Charities; one case to the Cambridge City Missionary; one box to the Cambridge Institution for the Blind; one case of shoes to the North Bennett Street Industrial School; derby hats to the Salvation Army. A quantity...
...serious discussion which will enlighten the Western delegates if they reach it. "The Great Swamp" is a half breed and Indian story, in general plan like Mr. Lawrence Mott's work, with more accuracy but less picturesquencess and dash. In some passages the sentences are monotonously short. "Gentlemen and Seamen" treats of the old merchant sea-captains in New England and of Salem, the old seaport for trade with the East. The feeling in the article is good; but the imperfect workmanship and the tendency to moralize give the effect of a school composition. "The Friend," a sonnet, though...