Word: toning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mandolin Club has been handicapped this spring by losing a number of men from the leading parts by the resignation of the '97 members. Then, too, the management has increased the total number with a view to giving a more powerful volume of tone, so that now there are fifteen mandolins and seven guitars. Under these circumstances the progress in the short time the club has been playing has been most satisfactory. The club has been given the use of No. 1 Lawrence Scientific Shool for rehearsals and the benefits from a large room are shown in a great improvement...
Several attempts at fables cover the first few pages of this issue. Only two deserve notice. "The Wise Man," by R. P. Utter, is good, but one wishes its tone were otherwise. The dialogue is well done and the topic decidedly modern. The best of the other attempts is "The Mongol and the Chinaman," by Albert Dwight Sheffield. After reading all these essays, however, one sees a reason for the quotation which heads the collection: "For the term fable is not very easy to define rigorously." Two efforts at versifying, the first "To a Guinevere" having no excuse for being...
...Renaissance itself. Its spirit was essentially mundane and finally became, in imitation of the Greeks, a mere effort to depict physical beauty. The Italian antists, however, took the later Graeco-Roman period for a model rather than the classic Greek and in consequence took eventually a very artificial tone. In the fifteenth century this was less noticeable, but in the sixteenth century art became very artificial and in many cases coarse. The really great work of the Italian Renaissance was in sculpture and painting, which was perhaps the greatest the world has ever seen. The architecture of the period...
...quarto memoirs which the Peabody Museum will issue in regard to these discoveries at Copan. It consists of a preliminary outline of the nature of the explorations and their results from 1891 through 1895. The text is explained throughout by numerous illustrations. The quarto also contains several half-tone plates and a map of the ruins...
...SALE.- Very fine old French violin, 125 years old, excellent tone, very full, in perfect order. Address, G. A., CRIMSON office...