Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purported to be written by R. H. Thinfellow. The play describes the passion of Myles for Priscilla, how he got John Alden to plead for him and how Priscilla repulsed Myles but accepted John. The intrigues of Hobomok, the chief of the Wampums with Myles and the tragic end of John Alden created much laughter. The Overseers Scene in which the proposed regulations were alluded to was one of the best hits...
...Atlantic Monthly for March is fully up to the standard of the recent numbers in the variety and interest of its articles. The serials, "Passe Rose," by A. S. Hardy, and "The Tragic Muse," by Henry James, fully sustain the interest of their first chapters. American history occupies a large share of the number. John Fiske contributes a paper on "Ticonderoga, Bennington and Oriskany," and Frank G. Cook, one on "Some Colonial Lawyers and their Work." Treating in more recent events is an article entitled "Personal Reminisences of William H. Seward," by his private secretary, Samuel J. Barrows...
...Hunting at Rossness" by Mr. Bates is a tragic tale of the days of the clans in Scotland. The narrative is smooth and effective, though it lacks gracefulness of language. The interest of the story increases rapidly to the death of the Earl...
...attractive number because of the variety and interest of its articles. Of the serials, "Passe Rose" by A. S. Hardy, fully keeps up the interest of the earlier chapters. This bids fair to be one of the best novels of the year. The second installment of Henry James', "The Tragic Muse," is written with all his usual artistic taste. It is too soon to judge of the story as a whole, but the beginning is surely auspicious. Shorter stories are "A Winter Courtship," by Miss Jewett, who is well known as a writer of novelettes; "The Gift of Fernseed...
Professor C. C. Everett, of the Divinity School, read a paper on "The Tragic Motif in Browning's Dramas" at a meeting of the Browning Society of Boston last Tuesday. Col. T. W. Higginson, of Cambridge, presided...