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especial sacrifice. To the Greeks, Philotas was not an improbable person. He had been from childhood imbued with the idea that death was preferable to disgrace. Philotas was the first attempt of the reform for which Diderot and Lessing had been working.
A handful of translations from Logan by Mrs. W. H. Carruth was the principal paper of the afternoon. Friederick von Logan belongs to the seventeenth century. Writers generally speak of Logan's century in German as a dreary waste, a desert exhausted by the thirty years war. Logan furnishes an oasis in this desert. He was a writer Sinuegedichte on epigranes.
Longfellow translated twelve gems of Logan in exquisite English setting. For a time Logan was forgotten. To Lessing belongs the credit of rediscovering the forgotten poet.
Logan belongs to a noble but impoverished family. He claimed his rhymes were for his friends. He bewailed the introduction of foreign customs resulting from the employment of foreign troops. He criticised the vice of the time, drunkenness. Unlike other seventeenth century writers he spoke well of women. For his verse, he touched on death, law, court life, his ancestral home. He was independent in religion and yet was fairly optimistic.
Music Hall Echoes.
The holidays are pretty close now, and the most one hears on all sides is "where are you going?" "What are you going to do?" It seems from what one can gather down here that most of the Music Hall students are going to study in view of the awful examinations that hang like a cloud over the latter end of January! Well, the study won't do any harm provided it is done without worrying so, let ( + study — worry) be our formula.
Professors and students are breathing more freely now for the Christmas Elocution entertainment and the Christmas concerts are over.
In the former Mrs. Clarks' pupils did themselves proud as usual. The comment of one among the audience that Mrs. Clark had the faculty of imparting knowledge to her students
and at the same time leaving the individuality of each one to show itself just about hit the mark.
We lift our hearts in thankfulness that our elocution teacher will have nothing but what is true to nature and says away with all attempts to imitate the comic opera dancer or to work upon the feelings of the audience by affectation and mandolin effects.
It is generally conceded that the Christmas concert was one of the best ever given. "Variety is charming" and therein lay part of its charm, the remainder lying in the class of music played, which while it was classical in character had sufficient sparkle to tickle the ears of the audience. Each performed his or her part excellently well, and as each number was rendered and the program completed, one could not help wondering if the audience then or ever realizes what an enormous amount of work and anxiety the getting up of such an entertainment is. You would have known something of it had you been anywhere near music hall of late, and perhaps could grasp a little idea from the very serious faces of some of our professors last night, one in particular seemed to forget that he knew how to smile! Some one said after it was over, "we are going to have something of a glee club this year," and judging from that quartette it is doubtless so.
We wish all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous and studious New Year.
Get Pat Graham to make you a pair of shoes that won't hurt that bunion of yours. No use being a cripple.
Ye long haired students hie yourselves to Jess A. Howe's, and have those locks trimmed if you want to continue in your lady's love.
Now is the time to buy your winter Coal. See Edwards before you buy.
Buy your Coal at Griffin's. Largest weight for the money.
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