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William Cranston Lawton, of Cambridge, is arranging for several courses of readings from Greek authors during the present winter and spring. Besides his course of six readings, which includes an original metrical version of three dramas of Euripides, he is preparing a similar course from AEschylus...
Notwithstanding the bad weather, a large audience attended the vesper service yesterday afternoon at Appleton Chapel. After a prayer by Dr. Alexander McKenzie, the congregation read responsively the 33d Psalm. Dr. McKenzie next read from the Revised Version the parable of the "Ten Talents." The lesson of this parable is that a man should adapt himself to circumstances. The demands made upon a man by modern life are, notwithstanding all its appliances and inventions, much more severe than at any time in the past. A man should, therefore, strengthen himself and try to do his duty. There is no excitement...
...following is the programme for the Wagner concert given this evening in Boston Music Hall by the Boston Symphony Orchestra: Overture, Bacchanale and duet from the first act of the Paris version of "Tannhauser"; preislied from "Die Meistersinger" duet (Siegfried and Brunnhilde), Siegfried's death, funneral march and closing scene from "Die Gotterdammerung." Soloists, Mme. Lilli Lehman and Mr. Paul Kalisch...
...interesting will be the pair of Wagner concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra to be given at Music Hall next Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, with which the season will close. Mr. Gericke has arranged a programme of extraordinary interest, including selections from "Die Gotter-dammerung" and the Paris version of "Tannhauser." The vocal numbers will be sung by Mme. Lehmann and Mr. Kalisch...
...York Shakespeare Society will issue next month the first volume of "The Bankside Shakespeare." This edition will offer the text of the earliest version of each play printed in the life-time of William Shakespeare, paralleled with the 1623, or first-folio text, and both texts numbered line by line and scrupulously collated with both he folio and quarto texts...