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Identifier: literarydigest60newy (find matches)
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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ng-jflaccs. A British ornithologist records that a brood of fouryoung blackbirds was hatclied within four feet of the muz/.leof a gun. A pair of hedge-swallows had their nest in the hullof a broken Avheel continuously under fir(\ and regularly fedtheir young Avithout regard for the dropping sln-apnel and burst-ing shells. It is stated, howcAcr, that droves of magpies ha\ofound the gun-fire in France too much for their nerves and ha\ctaken refuge in England. Birds ordinarily pay little attentionto j)assing airplanes, luit an excejjtion is not«d in the case of jack-daws at St. Oiner, which lia\e bt en known to l<a\« tluir homesin the church steeples and attack the newfangled denizens ofthe air. ANTIQUARIAN OPERA PREFERRED TO NEW t i. W HEX A NEW BOOK COjNIES OUT I geueiallyread an old one, said Dr. Johnson or some otherold worthy Avho chiefly delighted in quenchingnew enthusiasms. Whether a Metropolitan Opera audience maybe credited with similar intentions, their r^ent treatment of
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THE POOR COBBLER WflO TURNED DOCTOK It was a fairy who turned tliis grumpy family, Scotti as the cobbler and Frieda Hempel as liis wife, intowealthy parvenus witli all the foolish arrogance attending such elevations. operatic fare is similar enough to recall the old arbiter of FleetStreet opinions. Puccinis wiles are hardly strong enough tohold attention, while the seventy-yeax-old outpourings of theRieci brothers in the witty and fantastic form of Crispino e laComare—The Shoemaker and the Fairy—set the Metropoli-tan audience into thrills of delight. Since so many destructiveagencies have been abroad in the world the prospect of lossesmakes us hold the tighter to what we have, and perhaps reflectthat old wine, old books, old friends are best. Crispinohas never before been thought worthy of revival at the dignifiedTemple of Music on Broadway, tho Mr. Hammerstein made itvocal in Thirty-fourth Street when he had Madame Tetrazzinifor its roulades and staccati. Back of that we are turn

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