Word: tales
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Head of the Poet Laureate" is a tale in which Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, and one Giles Hemming plot, preach, and elope, respectively. The idea is well bandled; Mr. Nes is perhaps least fortunate in his dialogue, a strange mixture of modern phrases and what is apparently intended for seventeenth-century English. It may be doubted whether a Devon peasant ever could have said "how him an' me kin write verses an' ring a bell t' any tune." The story is nevertheless entertaining...
...program has been arranged as follows: "A Day in Havana," Luis Alexander Baralt, Jr., 2G., of Havana, Cuba; "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Edgar Allan Poe), Manuel Matienzo 1L., of San Juan, Porto Rico; Song, "Vittoria mio con carissimi," V. B. Kellett '18, of Hopedale; "African Democracy," Plenyono Gbe Wolo '17, of Grandben, Liberia; "Scotch Poems," George Mair '16, of Jamaica Plain, formerly of Scotland; Japanese Legerdemain, Takaharu Takamatau, Gr. Dv., of Murotsu, Yamaguchiken, Japan; "Lyrics of Love and Life" (Rabindravath Tagore), Sowendra Chandra Deb Barman 1G., of Tipperah, India; Songs, "Gerodemos" (Old Demos--the Klepht), and "Thymoume Panta to Bradia...
...Passos has an interesting impression of a meeting of the Salvation Army on a street corner. Even with the glorious liberty which his verse allows, must he resort to such rhymes as "tune" and "importune"? A short, vivid tale by Mr. H. S. Rogers, however, tells an old story and tells it well. Anonymity shields the author of "The Young Faun," who depicts not merely an afternoon, but several of the last mornings and evenings of the wild creature's life. "Shoes of Unity" is the name Mr. Littell gives his composition which, in spite of some harsh transpositions...
...road. It is a vivid picture of the war, its ravages, and the men and women near it. As a story full of interest Mr. Sweetser's volume holds us to the last, for he seems to have put a good deal of his own charming personality into the tale, and we often feel that we are by his side. From the very first sentence, which begins: "Flash! snapped the telegraph operator--," we feel the thrill of the young journalist. As a sidelight on the history of the great European struggle, the book is also valuable. He deals with...
Trilby, as impersonated by Miss Neilson-Terry, is such a one as lovers of Du Maurier's tale have imagined the real Trilby to be. Clothed in garments well suited to acentuate her statuesque beauty she moves through the piece, at times merry, and mischievous, at times pitifully sad. And in the scene, where under the influence of Svengali she sings "Sweet Alice Ben Bolt" her voice won the hearts of the audience even as that of Du Maurier's heroine won the hearts of the audience he describes...