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...story. Of a very different style is the story of "A Crime," from the French. It is vivid and picturesque, though the plot-a dream of a man who contemplated murder-is too horrible to be pleasant. The best article in the number is "Is in a Seaport Town." The description of the old decaying seaport town is charmingly written. The verse of the number consists of two college "poems" and a hunting song-"In Exmoor." Though the theme is an old one, it is well treated. The lines have a splendid galloping movement...
...scene of the first act is laid in front of the Shorn Lamb tavern in the seaport town of Crowbay. A group of villagers, constituting the opening chorus, are gathered before the tavern. As the curtain rises they begin to tell of the approaching marriage of Constance to a rich but aged baronet, who has been selected by Boggs, the girl's father, as a suitable husband for his child, though much against her will. Alfred Dawdle, young, handsome and charming, but poor, makes his appearance, accompanied by his facetious but faithful servant, Rattles. Dawdle offers to elope with Constance...
...tries to show that the sciences and English should be given leading places in the school and also in the college. An interesting article is Miss Fanny Storie's "Diary of an American Girl in Cairo during the War of 1882." The illustrated papers are "A French-American Seaport," which is an account of the Island of St. Pierre off Newfoundland; "Sailors' Snug Harbor," by Franklin H. North; "American Wild Animals in Art," by Julian Hawthorne; and a scholarly paper by Edward Eggleston on "Commerce in the Colonies." In fiction, Henry James' new story, "Lady Barberina," in this number, concerns...
...race will be very good. Steamboats will follow the crews from start to finish, and it is guaranteed that they will do better than the poor tubs that followed the boats at Springfield last year; and there is no doubt that they will, for as New London is a seaport town, it of course has greater facilities for getting good boats than Springfield had. A train of platform cars, with seats arranged in the form of an amphitheatre, will also keep along by the side of the boats from start to finish. Each car will hold about eighty people...
...train of platform cars would be run, during the race, abreast of the boats and in full view of them, except for a few hundred feet where the road passes through a short cut. There is, also, ample opportunity for large steamers to follow the race, and a seaport like New London will be able to supply enough of these vessels. The hotels will easily accommodate two thousand guests, and it is proposed to bring up a steamboat or two from New York as a floating hotel. The railroad management is most liberal in its offers, and New London promises...