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...fortified by the usual signs employed, as Benvenuto Cellini tells us, in the conjuration of evil spirits. I then proceeded to utter one of the common forms of exorcism. Instantly the myriad houris assumed the forms of irritated demons; the smoke from the uncounted narghiles burned thick and black; the cries of the frustrated ginns who were no better than they should be rang wildly in our ears; the palm tree shook beneath a mighty wind; the distant summits of the minarets rocked and wavered, and, with a tremendous crash, the paradise of the faithful disappeared.[A. Lang...
...class. Sumner's pertinacity in his opinions and purposes was a prominent feature of his character at this period. The following incident well illustrates his immovable persistency. The college rules at this time prescribed an undergraduate's uniform dress; and as one of the details a waistcoat of "black-mixed or black; or when of cotton or linen of white." Sumner wore a buff-colored waistcoat, which encountered the observation of the narietal committee. He maintained that it was white or nearly enough so to comply with the rule. He persisted in his position, and was summoned several times...
...trouble, but the chief cause is not among them. It is the color of the paper and the ink which we use. No one dissents from the opinion of Lord Bacon that the rays of the sun are reflected by a white body and absorbed by a black. But, despite these indications of nature and philosophy, we have all our reading matter in direct opposition to the suggestions of optical science. The human eye cannot long sustain the broad glare of a white surface without injury. People exposed for a long time to the glare of a sandy desert...
...remedy to the chief cause, the white paper and its contrasting black ink, Mr. Yorke suggests the use of green paper and colored inks. Nature and science declare that it should be green. It is the commonest color in nature and the most refreshing. It has an infinite variety of shades, and it is the softest color. It is the most permanently grateful, fatigues the eyes least, and is the color on which they will the longest and most willingly repose. Then, why should we not reform the abuse as the means lie so completely in our power...
...ninth with 192 votes, John Morley has (187, William Morris, 147; Professor Huxley, 115; and Mr. W. E. Gladstone, 107. Novel writing is thought to appeal greatly to the popular taste but the novelists are at a discount, none of them getting a tenth of Mr. Tennyson's votes, Black, Shorthouse, and Blackmore being the most favored in that way. Among the poets Swinburn, 262, comes next to Browning. The forty ends with the names of two distinguished biblical scholars, Bishop Lightfoot and Canon Westcott. Though of necessity containing many of the lights of English Literature this "forty...