Mmo. Jonnie Defau, prima donna, of tho Chicnßo Opera Company, presented every monkey in llio Chicago Zoo with small mechanical toys on -New Year's Day. • Lufcadio lloarn is nulled in an exchange as saving: "I tnink that tin- lnnof scholarship will liavo to lie thrown away for the. purposes of creative art." As a protest: against, pedantic expression, Ihis dictum may hnvo lorco; but will not the ijupremo literary iirlist ahvavs employ all the re-oitrces of his la[igiui»e—liolh Ihe vernacular and the classieal vocaliuliiry ? Shakespeare ill Knslaud and Whitman in America, for instance, knew their native tonKUe both as the ru'tic and a.-: the ;-chtila)■ know it, and they used both vucabiilminiV-niiil than probably sighed lor »uro ».ad boUor .jrorda,
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1389, 15 March 1912, Page 3
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120Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1389, 15 March 1912, Page 3
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