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Best general references: John Bach McMaster in Forum, vol. 20, pp. 257 ff. (November, 1895); Judge Black, in North American Beview, vol. 130, pp. 208 ff. (March, 1880), vol. 160, pp. 385 ff.; Nation, vol. 61, p. 337 (November...
...fiction. This is found in Edie Ochiltre, Meg Dods, Nantyswart, and the hundred and one characters of low life which Scott represented so truly and so completely. Another novelist in the goodly company of this country library was Dickens, in the first American edition-that edition of tall black volumes of double columns, fine print, and grotesque cuts-and Mr. Copeland deplored the fact that people in these days, remembering too much against Dickens for his unreal pathos, forget to read him for his real though fantastic humor and his vigorous, wonderful caricatures. Thackeray stood side by side with Scott...
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...first half of the fifties the students went to prayers morning and evening. There were always monitors at chapel to take attendance and to see that all had black coats and hats and that no one was lying down on the seats. The service was a Puritan one, consisting solely of prayer and reading Scripture. About this time Professor Huntington tried to introduce the Episcopal service at chapel, but his proposition was declined by the Corporation...