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This evening at eight o'clock, in the Fogg Lecture Room, M. Marcel Deslouis, of the Theatre des Arts, Bordeaux, will read the Sonnet scene from the "Misanthrope," the monologue of Don Carlos from "Hernani," and "La Conscience" from the "Legende des siecles," by Victor Hugo...
...Guvnor" by J. A. Macy, is quaint and somewhat touching but not very well sustained; "A Painter of Portraits" by Robert Peabody Bellows, is decidedly clever, and "As it Happened" by H. M. Adams is well written but on a rather worn out theme. For the verses, a sonnet by J. A. Macy has real strength and meaning, "The Summer's Death" by Rupert S. Holland is pleasant to say the least, but "The Cry of the Violets," while good in conception is somewhat clumsy in form. The usual College Kokaks complete the number...
...editors of the Monthly state in the number just published that their object in the coming year will be to show that literature to be good must be natural. As the editorial has it: "The gloomy sonnet is the healthy vent for a moody moment," and "the writing of it is a pathological cure...
...Advocate which comes out today is hardly up to the standard. The best thing in it is a "Change of Costume," by R. F. Maynard, and although the plot has seen better days; it is worked up very simply and naturally to the only possible conclusion. A sonnet, "Spiritus Victus Amore," is the kind of a poem one of which is almost sure to turn up in every number; it reads along smoothly enough and does not mean anything in particular. G. H. Scull contributes a rather vivid sketch of life on the Banks suggested perhaps by Kipling's serial...
...Methinks the Measure" (sonnet...