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Laurence Hutton (1843-1904) was an American essayist and critic, born in New York City and educated privately there. He was an inveterate traveler and for about 20 years spent his summers abroad. From about 1870 he contributed continually to periodicals. From 1886 to 1898 he was the literary editor of Harper's Magazine. He was one of the organizers of the Authors' Club and of the International Copyright League. An ardent collector of literary curiosities, his collections are of remarkable interest. In 1892 he received the degree of A.M. from Yale and in 1897 from Princeton. His writings on dramatic subjects include: He edited the American Actor Series (1881-82) and published a group of delightful literary guidebooks, including:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Recollections of the Stage Plays and Players Frederick Warde Henry Irving's GenerosityEdwin BoothThe Players ClubDeath of Lawrence Barrett. My next appearance in print, after the Dickens article, was more successful; it was even a little remunerative, and it settled the whole course of my life. I had gone, in the 'seventies some time, to Booth's Theatre to see the return of the Boucicaults to the New York stage after a long absence. They played Jessie Brown, or the Siege of Lucknow, a drama which had stirred up all the young Scotch blood in New York to a remarkable extent when it was originally produced at Wallack's, in the early 'sixties. Many of the members of the first cast were dead; but I set down, in a thousand or two thousand words, all that could be remembered of the original production, and the article was carried to The Evening Mail. It was accepted and printed, and paid for,at the rate of seven dollars a column. It was quoted, and copied, and talked about; and the author was asked for more in the same line. And so I stubbed my toe, as it were, and fell into the arms of a daily journal. The contribution was followed by a long, scattering, irregular series of " Recollections Gbe lacuna IDeteran 59 of the Stage," " By a Young Veteran," for which latter I was severely censured on the ground that a veteran must be a man old in years. Which is not true, for there were veteran drummer-boys among my acquaintances then, who had served in the Civil War, who were recognised as veterans and who were younger than I. The subject-matter selected always related to some current play or event of dramatic interest, the article stating what " The Young Veteran " knew or had seen or had read concerning similar events or plays in the palmy days of the pas...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOLF, AND SOME OF ITS ANCIENT TRADITIONS " But we will put it, as they say." Love's Labor's Lost, Act V., Scene II. JOLF, even more than tennis, is essentially the relief and the recreation of the middle-aged man. It gives him, in a mild form, something to think about, something to do, somewhere to go to, and some object to go for. It takes him out of doors, and out of himself. Exercise, as exercise and nothing more, is the hardest of hard work ; but if there be a goal at the end of it, the middle-aged man will take exercise, and willingly. In the city he will promenade, upon paved streets, for miles to buy a newspaper which he can purchase on hisown block ; while in the country he will walk even more miles, over grass and heather, simply for the sake of putting a little round ball into a series of little round holes ; and he will get no end of physical good and no small amount of keen pleasure out of the operation. Dr. Jamieson, who spells it "Golf," "Goff,"and "Gouf," speaks of it as a common game in the North Country; and he mentions " Shinty, an inferior species oi Golf generally played at by young people." " In London," he adds," the game is called Hackie. It seems to be the same which is designated Not [Knot] in Glouces- tershire," the name being borrowed from the ball, which is made of a knotty piece of wood. Shakspere is absolutely silent upon the subject of Golf, and Golf is almost the one point upon which there have been no Queries and no Notes. Even Struttwho spells it " Goff "devotes but little space to it, although in what he says about it he has been followed by all its later historians. He considers it the most ancient of all the games which are played with a ball and a bat; he says that it answers to a rustic pastime of the Romans, which they p...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Recollections of the Stage Plays and Players Frederick Warde Henry Irving's GenerosityEdwin BoothThe Players ClubDeath of Lawrence Barrett. My next appearance in print, after the Dickens article, was more successful; it was even a little remunerative, and it settled the whole course of my life. I had gone, in the 'seventies some time, to Booth's Theatre to see the return of the Boucicaults to the New York stage after a long absence. They played Jessie Brown, or the Siege of Lucknow, a drama which had stirred up all the young Scotch blood in New York to a remarkable extent when it was originally produced at Wallack's, in the early 'sixties. Many of the members of the first cast were dead; but I set down, in a thousand or two thousand words, all that could be remembered of the original production, and the article was carried to The Evening Mail. It was accepted and printed, and paid for,at the rate of seven dollars a column. It was quoted, and copied, and talked about; and the author was asked for more in the same line. And so I stubbed my toe, as it were, and fell into the arms of a daily journal. The contribution was followed by a long, scattering, irregular series of " Recollections Gbe lacuna IDeteran 59 of the Stage," " By a Young Veteran," for which latter I was severely censured on the ground that a veteran must be a man old in years. Which is not true, for there were veteran drummer-boys among my acquaintances then, who had served in the Civil War, who were recognised as veterans and who were younger than I. The subject-matter selected always related to some current play or event of dramatic interest, the article stating what " The Young Veteran " knew or had seen or had read concerning similar events or plays in the palmy days of the pas...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN ADDRESS. Tan I Written by Mr. Thomas Wells. Spoken by Mr. James H. Caldwell, at the opening of the New 1824. American Theater, New Orleans. WHEN first, o'er Learning, Persecution trod, And fettered Letters felt his iron rod, Long, long in darkness bound, the Muses slept, Each haunt left bardless, and each harp unswept; 'Till, bursting through the gloom, dramatic fire Apollo darted o'er each slumbering lyre; Through clouds of dullness shot his attic light, And chased the shades of superstitious night; Loud paeans then broke forth from every tongue, The Temples echoed, and the Chorus rung Warm with new soul, young Music smote the strings, To Song gave life to Inspiration wings ! Genius, by Freedom roused, shook off his yoke, And from his deep, oblivious dream awoke! Awoke, and saw the Drama's towering dome Swell its asylum arch, and call him home; Allured to higher worlds, he took his flight, And rose to realms of empyrean height, Explored the winding paths of Fiction's bowers, And gathered for the Stage his deathless flowers. Her ample page redeeming Learning spread, And o'er the night of Mind her radiance shed, Taste polished lifethe arts refined the age And Virtue triumphed as she reared the Stage. Patrons! this night our cause to you we trust, As Guardians of the Drama's rights be just; Support from you the child of Thespis draws, Warms in your sun, and thrives on your applause; At your tribunal he expecting stands, And craves indulgent judgment at your hands; Your willing smiles then let his efforts share, And, to your shelter take the buskin's heir! O, let your presence, let your plaudits cheer Our Protean toil, and give us welcome here! And yet, no purchased favor we would ask; Unbiased and unbought fulfil your task. Before your critic-bench we humbl...
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literary landmarks of the scottish universities
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literary landmarks of rome
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Originally published in 1897. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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literary landmarks of oxford
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ALL SOULS ALL SOULS The full name of " All Souls " is " The College of the Souls of All the Faithful Persons Deceased in Oxford." It was founded in 1437, as a Memorial to the Brave Warriors who fell at Agin- court in 1415; and it thereby antedates the discovery of America by over half a century. It took seven years to complete the buildings, at a cost of a little over four thousand pounds. The account-books, which have been preserved, make very pleasant reading to those of us who have, in recent days, been paying for the erection of private homes, or of public institutions, in the New World. The workmen were the most skilful that could be procured; and we learn that sawyers and carpenters were paid sixpence a day; masons eight pence j laborers four pence half penny; daubersotherwise paintersfive pence, and all female laborers five pence. A horse, purchased for the Warden, in 1451, cost sixty shillings ; a pair of boots two and eight pence; and, most interesting of all, the bill for a small pig and a caponit is not recorded for whose consumption amounted to twelve pencesay a quarter of a dollarfor the pair. All Souls, despite its comparative antiquity and its annual income now of eighteen thousand and eighty-six pounds sterling, is not particularly rich in Literary Associations. Linacre, Jeremy Taylor, Sir Christopher Wren, Edward Young, Blackstone and Heber may be counted among its Fellows; but its Undergraduates, and Graduates, seem to have left very few Landmarks on the Road of Letters. It is not an easy matter, even for the Oxford man himself, to say exactly what a Fellow is. There are, in Oxford, all sorts of Fellows. Good Fellows, Bad Fellows, Odd Fellows, and just plain Fellows. " The Century Dictionary" thus defines him : " In England [a Fellow is] a gr...
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edwin booth
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A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs
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Laurence Hutton (1843-1904) was an American essayist and critic, born in New York City and educated privately there. He was an inveterate traveller and for about 20 years spent his summers abroad. From about 1870 he contributed continually to periodicals. From 1886 to 1898 he was the literary editor of Harper's Magazine. He was one of the organizers of the Authors' Club and of the International Copyright League. An ardent collector of literary curiosities, his collections are of remarkable interest. In 1892 he received the degree of A. M. from Yale and in 1897 from Princeton. His writings on dramatic subjects include: Plays and Players (1875), Curiosities of the American Stage (1891), Memoir of Edwin Booth (with Brander Matthews) (1893), Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States: Garrick and His Contemporaries (1900) and A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs (1901). He edited the American Actor Series (1881-82) and published a group of delightful literary guidebooks, including: Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh (1891), Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem (1895), Literary Landmarks of Venice (1896), Literary Landmarks of Florence (1897) and Literary Landmarks of London (1897).
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