Word: witches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor John Fiske lectured at the Newtowne Club, Cambridge, on Monday evening. His subject was "Salem Witch-craft...
...Persee was never in better voice and his solos were evenly given-the tower scene, "Do Not Forget Me," being imperatively demanded. Miss Leighton's Azucena, the old witch hag who deals in flames and torture, was a rugged picture that one cannot easily forget. Her music was superbly rendered. Mr. Wolff filled the role of Fernando. Mr. Wooley made his reappearance in Rinz...
...follower of Mr. Kipling is Charles W. Shope, but he follows Mr. Kipling in a different way from that in which Mr. Davis was followed in "Lord Angus." It is the incidents not the characters of "The Lilac Witch," that are drawn from Mr. Kipling, as anyone who has read "The Light that Failed" will admit. Henri of "The Lilac Witch," is utterly unlike Dick, of "The Light that Failed," as Sophie is utterly unlike Bessie but cutting a picture to pieces with a palette-knife is very like blur with the same instrument, even when the one is done...
...poetry of the number, "Verses," by P. H. Savage, is the best. It is simply written, and its metrical qualities are decidedly better than anything by the same author that we remember to have seen before. "The Amber-witch" is not up to Mr. Moody's usual standard. It is admirable in the impression of fantastical wierdness that it leaves, like a strange and unpleasant dream, but the versification is very rough in places, and the words are not always well chosen...