Ibsen on Little Eyolf and Sharp Vistas in Green Tree Library
A critical review discusses Ibsen's Little Eyolf as homiletic fiction with themes of wealth and poor accountability, noting its stage difficulties yet strong reading impact. It also critiques William Sharp's Northern Night as a flawed Norse style vista and surveys February literary magazines, noting features on Parkhurst, Charleston, and various authors and publishers.
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Ibsen
Eyolf
Stone & Kingball
Chicago
Green Tree Library
Allmers
Rita
Cleopatra
Hyol
Alilmers
Rex
Thlanotaphy
Thea
Ibsen Myn
William Sharp
Clyde Fitch
Fitch
Wiliam Sharp
Eros
Esteen
Dr. Parkhurst
Andrew C. Wheeler
Magazine of Travel
Charleston
South Carolina
Eli Perkins
Lord Wolsely
China
Asia
Julian Hawthorne
Europe
McClure
Hubert Louis Stevenson
Forum
John W. Keller
The
New York Recorder
Robert S. Porter
Porter
United States
Marehal Canrobert
Adolph Thorn
Marshal MacMahon
Paris
MacMahon Alemoira
Beatrice Harraden
Aubrey Beardsley
du Maurier
Venus
Tountaeuser
Deardsley Carlentarts
Tiko
Ewinhurne
Bchopenhauer
Beardsley
Trilby
Edgar Allen Poe
FE. Bliss
New York
Mary Kyle Dallas
Merriam Company
Lew Wallace
Congressional Library
Antony
Plutarch
Little Gems of Song and Story collage
A collage of verses and humorous anecdotes from Emerson to Miss Maud Adams and tales of social wit. Includes poems about Time and River of Time, humorous snippets about public figures, and light verses on marriage, winter nights, and Bavarian peasants.
Caesar in the Soup: Cleopatra’s Jest Amid Actium Tactics
The passage notes Caesar and Antony positioning before Actium, Caesar seizing a place named Torsae meaning ladle. Cleopatra quips about Caesar being in the ladle, equating it to “Caesar’s in the soup” per the New York Evening Post.
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Caesar
Antony
Actium
Langhorne
Cleopatra
New York Evening Post
Curious Vowel Orders and Short Alphabet Sentences
A London tidbits item notes two words contain all vowels in order abetmious and facetious, lists many examples with irregular order, mentions seven nine letter monosyllables, and shares compact pangrams and typing exercises to train keyboard familiarity.
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London
J. Gray
Phiz
Styx
Wrone
Defect of a Pennsylvania Dutch Beauty Heiress
A New York Sun report recalls a Lebanon County English heiress valued at $140,000. A bachelor doctor praises her beauty and wealth while recounting a party introductions and a shy reply that foils his suit.
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New York Sun
Lebanon
Lebanon County
The Welsh in America A Buffalo News overview
A scanned historical piece traces Welsh settlement in Pennsylvania starting 1692, noting Welsh names and figures in early politics, religion, and industry. It lists notable Welsh Americans from Jefferson's ancestors to John Adams and J. Pierpont Morgan, and cites Welsh influence in church and state development.
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Buffalo News
America
Pennsylvania
William Penn
Meirion
Gwynedd
Cear’narfon
Pencader
Maldwyn
St. Patrick
Camden
Rhoss
Pembrokeshire
Wales
Calfurnius
Saint Martin
Tours
France
Walesa
St. David's Cathedral
Patrick
Jones
Reynolds
Oliver Cromwell
Williams
Roger Williams
Rhode Island
Commonwealth of England
John Jones
Thomas Harrison
Hugh Peters
Charles 1
Philadelphia
Anthony Morris
Thomas Lloyd
Ellis Pugh
Thomas Wynn
Siowers
Jefferson
Snowdon
Lewis
Clark
Columbia River
Richard Henry Lee
New York
Continental Congress
William Lloyd
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
Robert Morris
Trenton
Eye power in lion tamer Van Amburgh tale
A barroom anecdote recounts how lion tamer Van Amburgh claimed he used fearlessness and eye contact to control others. He challenged a hostile patron, fixed his gaze, and the man rose to confront him, delivering a heavy blow that toppled the performer.
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van Amburgh
Arilmola
A Trait of Mendelssohn Autograph Anecdote
Mr Seligmann recounts Mendelssohn at Schwerin conducting a festival. At a public dinner ladies swarmed for autographs. He wrote on a matron’s card a line from Haydn’s Creation, And God created little whales, then resumed his soup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mendelssohn
Seligmann
Scottish Musical Monthly
Schwerin
Haydn
German Journal Suspended Over Parody of Imperial Song
A Mannheim journal faced suspension after publishing a parody of the emperor’s composition titled Song to Aegir renamed Song to Adam. The action centered on the satirical critique of imperial imagery and state reverence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Manheim
Emperora
Aegir
Adam
Disillusions in London Tales of May Yohe and the Stage
Special correspondence from London recounts mixed impressions of American actress May Yohe in Little Christopher Columbus and Lady Slaney, plus a Henry James play Guy Domville and a concert program. The writer notes fashion shops, a large Royal Academy reception, and a thunder storm, ending with pride in Wilkes-Barre and Alexander Fullerton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
London
May Yoke
Christopher Columbus
Lady Sinky
Indies
Avenue Theater
Tueday
Royal Academy
Sir Alexander Mackenzie
England
America
Imbla
Oxford Street
Regent Street
Bond Street
Acaemy
Henry James
Guy Domville
St. James ‘Theater
Buttia
George Washington
Hla
Alles Gomez
Inia
Busto
Ben Casles
Stenor Foll
David Bispham
Mme. Gomez
Ella Rugge
Antoinette Sterling
Joannes Wolff
Meister Glee Singers
Dassie
Westminster Bridge
Wilkes-Barre
Alexander Fullerton
Dnd
Sadie DB
Mkaisern
Those Funny Little Folk and School Jokes
A collage of childhood gags about counting chickens and family dinners. Harry corrects his father over three versus two and one thirds, while other snippets joke about schooling, drawing, imagination, andVaccination.
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Harry
Papa
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Zenda
Amelie Rives Chanter
Dean Mailland
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Altpost
Mra
Lauree Chandler Moulton
Boston
Rider Haggard
Stanley Weinman
New Strand
Lenmion
BE. Hatzffeld
Ric Arthur Sullivan
Wilhems
Ignace Paderowski
Emerson
Maud Adams
John Drew
Miss Adams
EB. Taylor
Baby Antoinette
Richmond Dispatch
William R. Morrison
Stevenson
Springfield
Morrison
Washington Post
Texas
Youngstown Vindicator
Cohoes
Africa
Troy
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
William Henry Harrison
James A. Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
John Quincy Adams
Commodore Hopkins
Maurice
Thomas Buchanan Read
J. M. Francis
Austria
George Jones
New York Times
D. Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
New York Central
Gwynne
William C. Roberts
Lake Forest College
Presbyterian General Assembly
William Jones
Vanderbilt
Hugh Roberts
Cadwallader Colden
Cymru
Pel-y-cueran
Remsden
Oneida County
Random Notes of Life In
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Allentown
Bethlehem
California
Lady Slaney
Lady Hope
Duchess of Newcastle
Lord Hope
Bobby
Harper's Bazar
Atlanta Constitution
Mamma
Ethel
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