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...loveliness. The sprightly opening scenes take us to the old French colony of Nova Scotia, with the spinning wheel and the quaint costumes of Acadian peasants. The soft sylvan scene representing a shore of the southern Mississippi has peculiar charm, and the weirdness of the Indian wigwam and the trapper's hut in the wilds of northern Michigan brings to us again the attractiveness of some old-time plays. In the latter part of the play there is little relief from the sadness of a sorrowful tale, but the sentiment is strong hearted and healthy, the language is dignified...
...week is made up of a half-dozen pieces of fiction and as many experiments in verse. The stories, with one exception, are of men and things out of doors--by-products, perhaps, of vacation; one is told by a stagedriver, one by a guide, and one is a trapper's tale of long ago. The first two are "bear stories," and do not belie their kind. Rude men, of uncouth speech spiced with damns and tobacco juice; tell of beasts of fabulous dimensions and behavior, without fear of the "malleus naturfakerorum." Like other patterns for stories, this...
...Make Life Worth Living," an instantaneous one of a pug dog, occasioned much favorable comment. Mr. Storrow has devoted much time to the athletic teams, and his work is thus of more than ordinary interest to us. A very striking picture of his exhibit is that of a Maine trapper in the woods. Mr. Bancroft has some choice interiors and landscapes. His artistic taste would appear to better advantage on larger plates. This afternoon, Mr. J. H. Thurston of the Boston Commerce Club awarded the prizes, Mr. Sellers securing that for landscape work, Mr. Leighton for interiors and Mr. Sumner...
...clock, consisting of tableaux representing Canadian winter sports, and songs by a chorus of 300 voices. Le Trappeur Club will be dressed in uniform and be accompanied by the Victoria Rifle Band. During the evening some one member of a Boston club will be initiated into Le Trapper Club, which is a very interesting ceremony...
...trapper, in the Western wilds of this country sets his trap in the vicinity of some well known feeding-ground and relies upon the axiom, that "Nature abhors a vacuum," to secure him a breakfast...