. The literary digest. THESE ARE NOT HOBGOBLINS. They are the result of skilful gerrymandering of the ward lines ofBaltimore. —The News, Paltimore. Vol. XVI., No. 8] THE LITERARY DIGEST. 219 LETTERS AND ART. MODJESKAS REAPPEARANCE ON THE STAGE. MME. MODJESKAS reappearance on the slage (in NewYork, February 7) after several years of retirement, ishailed as a notable event in the dramatic world. She appeared inher famous impersonation of Mary, Queen of Scots, and TheHome Journal s&ys, every one who saw her rejoiced as at therecovery 01 a lost treasure. In The Tribune we find the following, writt
. The literary digest. THESE ARE NOT HOBGOBLINS. They are the result of skilful gerrymandering of the ward lines ofBaltimore. —The News, Paltimore. Vol. XVI., No. 8] THE LITERARY DIGEST. 219 LETTERS AND ART. MODJESKAS REAPPEARANCE ON THE STAGE. MME. MODJESKAS reappearance on the slage (in NewYork, February 7) after several years of retirement, ishailed as a notable event in the dramatic world. She appeared inher famous impersonation of Mary, Queen of Scots, and TheHome Journal s&ys, every one who saw her rejoiced as at therecovery 01 a lost treasure. In The Tribune we find the following, written, we presume, byWilliam Winter: She is now somewhat past the zenith of her physical power^but she retains all her charm, and in her embodiment of MaryStuart there was the same loveliness that endeared her when. S^^^ •iSifegi MME. HELENA MODJESKA. first she came. It is the loveliness of a beautiful spirit, enshrinedin a person of exquisite grace. The nobility of presence, the ex-quisite refinement of demeanor, the majesty of visage, the mourn-ful tenderness of the dark, melancholy eyes, the sweetness andthe tremulous emotion of the rich, sympathetic voice, the easycommand of diversified resources, the consistency and symmetryof fluent and cumulative action—those areclose denotements,working from the soul, which at once pro -laim authentic royaltyof nature and inherent equipment fcr art. The character ofMary Stuart, as drawn by Schiller, while typifying a deadlystruggle between worldly passion and cei .stial impulse, is, atlast, the perfect image of sorrow-stricken penitence and sublimeself-abnegalion, and with that ideal the actress shows herself tobe completely harmonious, alike in temperament and in stage history has there been an example of such abso-lute correspondence b
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