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...Chapter on Mr. Stevenson's Dreams," is an attempt to explain psychologically the remarkable dream which furnish Mr. Stevenson with material for his work. The writer takes good ground and his theory seems reasonable. Following this article, as if suggested by it is a short poem, "Dreams...
There is an attempt being made to establish an annex in the shape of a college for women under the protection of Columbia...
...George Riddle will again attempt the stage, this time in a comedy written by A. C. Gunther, author of "Mr. Barnes of New York...
...condition of the laborer; all is self-interest, which does not hesitate to destroy the prosperity of the whole country. Protection has changed greatly since the days when it professed merely to protect young industries. After a century of protection the duties are higher than ever before, and every attempt to lessen them is defeated by powerful combinations, whose opposition President Cleveland courageously faced in his message. The only remedy for the surplus is the reduction of the tariff, and, in the words of one of Senator Sherman's earlier speeches, "every advance toward free exchange is a benefit...
...which he overcame the inherent clumsiness of the sea monster which usually accompanied Thetis. In the later vases the artist tried to give the effect of a foreground and background by the use of foreshortening; but, owing to the fact that he was confined to a single color, the attempt was not successful. The capture of Troy, as described by the non-Homeric epics, was a favorite subject, and was treated in a great variety of ways by a long line of artists...