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Sever 11 was crowded to its utmost capacity last evening when Prof. Francis J. Child introduced Mr. E. Charlton Black, late of the University of Edinburgh. The subject for discussion was: "Shakspere; the Man." Recent talk about Shakspere, -Mr. Black began, has lead me to go over again the slender story of his life. He was a poet, an artist and a dramatist; the author of some forty works. Mr. Ruskin in his second Lecture on Art at Oxford said: "The highest thing that Art can do is to set before us the figure of a man." It is very...
...been dead for some years, and Dr. Holmes had just left Cambridge for Boston, - when Allston was living at "The Port," Judge Story on Brattle Street, the Fays in their large house where the "Harvard Annex" is now, Professor and Mrs. Farrar on Kirkland Street, and Longfellow, a slender, blonde young professor, was lodging in the Craigie House, which became his home afterwards. He pays a glowing tribute to Lowell's wife, and dilates at some length upon her influence on her husband. Harvard men will feel themselves thoroughly at home in reading the article for it is full...
...year to year, but their permanent characters make them particularly desirable. They add quite a sum to the great amount which Harvard is already giving every year to needy students, and come as an emphasis to the statement made in the catalogue that "good scholars of high character but slender means are very rarely obliged to leave college for want of money...
...After Twenty Years" stands in marked contrast to a "A Mutual Fraud" as regards character and treatment. It is a story reminding one of Hawthorne in its general simplicity and in certain descriptive touches. The plot of the story is slender and not particularly original, but the author counterbalances this by some truly excellent bits of description and character delineation. The old village doctor of Milford stands vividly before us, and the quiet humor of the first part stands in striking antithesis to the deep patnos of the latter part of the tale...
...first fiction of the number, "How We Routed the Ghosts," is, as its title indicates, a modern ghost story, and a local one at that. The plot of the tale is very slender, the language is at times ill chosen and the humor is so excessively fine as to be almost imperceptible...