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Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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outdone by her predecessor, she sang Benedicts variationsin the banquet scene, herself garbed in a costume revealing a fineappreciation of the situation. Mr. Scotti as Criapino was iiTcsistible. All old operagoersknow that this remarkable actor sweeps the scale of imjiersona-tion from Scarpia to Don Pat^qtiale with supreme ease, but at notime has his comic acting been so fuU of champagne as it Avasyesterday. As Dr. Mirahulano Mr. de Segurola was immenselyfunny, and Mr. Chalmers as Fahrizio completed the comi(; trio. Miss Breslau sang the music of the fairy in a thorouglilysuitable style. Tho chorus had little to do, but did it well, andthe duties of the orchestra were of comparatively small weight.The opera was presented with new scenery, which was \\cllconceived and well painted. The Tribunes Mr. Krehbiel finds this opera spikes thehoav.y ordnance of criticism. The story of the opera isdelightfully humorous, and the music charming—sensuously,ingratiatingly, insinuatingly charming.
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CRISPIXU CO.NSOLKD BY IllS AVIKK.In tus (incry and aiTORanco Crispino outdoes Christopher Slii. Westminster Gazette (London), finds it not a little significant ofthe promise of the future that the calendar of the past showsthat the 19s have hitherto chiefly enriched the arts of peace.He shows us how: Among the notable anni\ersaries of the year literature andthe arts claim a larger share than pohtics. Next month bringsround the centenary of the birth of John Ruskin, a great En-glishman, and of Russell Lowell, a great American. lu .Junebefalls the centenary of Charles Kingsle3, novelist and ChristianSocialist; and later in the jear occurs the hundredth anni\er.saryof the birth in rural Warwickshire of Mary Ann E\ans, theGeorge Eliot of literary immortaUtj-. Another noteworthj- namerecalled by the calendar is that of Arthur Clough, the poet andfriend of Emerson, Norton, and other distinguished Americansof last century. Joseph Addison died in 1719, and John Wol-cott in 1819—the latter w

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