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...twenty "lusty wenches" of Katharina's temper. From the time he swaggers into Padua with his father's fortune "happily to wine and thrive" to his winning of the wager at Lucentio's banquet, the audience feels the enthusiastic optimism and tough-skinned common sense of this wife tamer. He seems to enjoy so thoroughly his own sermons and bombasts that we can not but enjoy them with...
...Outing for February is not a good number, there is much more to be criticised than is be commended. The illustrations are very poor, especially the front-piece, "The Veteran's Last Fight," painted expressly for Outing. It would be hard to imagine a tamer fight. It is a picture of a wild hog with two dogs on him and three or four more looking on with a sleepy kind of interest. The effect is almost absurd. The illustrations of "A Comedy of Counterplots" are the worst in the number; one is a fanciful portrait of two men dancing hand...
...about it" was on hand and said that the home of the bird is in the far north - in the most northern bed of coniferous forests and forests and that they are so seldom harrassed there that they know absolutely nothing of danger. Almost all Arctic birds are tamer than more southern bred species, but the Pine Grosbeak is the least timid of the Arctic race...
...detailed criticism of the recital. The reading was the best of the series. Difficult as it is to render Shaksperian comedy well, Mr. Jones showed himself to better advantage in interpreting the subtle and delicate fancy of the great master than he did in his previous readings, with the tamer and less exacting productions of Dickens and Longfellow. In the reading last night Mr. Jones seemed to feel greater sympathy for some of his characters than for others. The uneveness, however, if it existed, was but slight, and did not detract from the general good impression derived from the recital...