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...about the most fitting burial place for so great an author. It was decided that the ashes of the man who had written, in the last paragraph of one of his greatest novels, "'Justice was done' . . . and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess. . . ." should be taken to Westminster Abbey, burial place of famed Englishmen, preserved in a vault. His heart, removed from his body before cremation, was buried in the earth at Dorchester...
...Lytton, Rosetti, Morris, Ruskin, Meredith, and Swinburne, his quiet passing away after a month's illness seems almost an event of some past year, a happening around which the shadows have already closed. For to those readers who have come under the spell of "Far from the Madding Crowd," "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," and "The Return of the Native" their author cannot be reconciled with contemporary life and manners. The halo of fame hovering about his name is as venerable as it might well be with a hundred years or so behind it, and the gathering of this...
...Coming of Jan" Walter D. Edmonds Jr. seems to be straining, whether consciously or not, for Hardy effects. Without the slightest trace of plagiarism his story echoes "The Three Strangers" and the fireside scene of "Tess", but the atmosphere is unmistakably theatrical. One must practice for years undoubtedly to acquire ease of manner, if it comes at all; yet there is a fundamental difference between such imitation as Mr. La Farge's where there seems to be a desire to express sincere experience, and that of this story, where the manner is made predominant by overdecoration with factitious similes...
...Fiske's benefit performance in aid of the Animal Rescue League will be given in the Hollis Street Theatre this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Fiske will play in the fourth act of "Becky Sharp" and immediately afterwards in the fourth act of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles." The program will also include recitations by Mr. Holbrook Blinn, and original monologues by Miss Beatrice Herford...
...Fiske and her Manhattan Company will give a benefit performance in aid of the Animal Rescue League in the Hollis Street Theatre on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The program will include the fourth act of "Becky Sharp," followed by the fourth act of "Tess of the d'Aubervilles." Mr. Holbrook Blinn and Miss Beatrice Herford will also furnish part of the entertainment, the former by reciting, and the latter by giving some of her original monologues...