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...Department of French will give this year as previously announced, three performances of Racine's "Athalie," the most perfect work of its kind in French literature and the most complete example of that particular literary form, the tragedy, which is typical of the classical school in France in the seventeenth century...
...Brunetiere admires the seventeenth century more than he does the last century or our own. For this reason we are fortunate that he is to speak to us upon the philosopher of his favorite epoch, Moliere...
...play is divided into three acts. The first is laid in New Amsterdam at the close of the seventeenth century. The inhabitants of the town become indignant with the Burgermeister and this ill feeling is brought to a head by the arrival of Mixit, Munrab, and the wandering musician. The inhabitants decide to return to Holland and for that purpose invoke the aid of the Fairy Godmother...
...those who care for the history of the English drama, this performance may offer a not quite usual interest. For it is a serious effort, on the part of a modern student, to revive many of the effects which were characteristic of the English stage in the early Seventeenth Century...
Seminary of American History and Institutions. Education in New York and Massachusetts in the Seventeenth Century. Mr. J. C. S. Andrew. University...