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...every one who intends to accompany the nine to Providence, sign the book at Leavitt and Pierce's as soon as possible...
Prof Asa Gray, the botanist, is now in California, collecting material for his new book "The Flowers of North America...
According to the Boston Traveller, the most notable thing about Mr. Barrett Wendell's new book is its absolute purity of language...
...Harvard Annex!" Your fancy, unbidden, suggests harmonious colors, inviting easy chairs, a few choice pictures; a happy blending of order and confusion in the details; a wooden mantel, framing a fire-place, and perhaps a bust of Minerva, or, at least, a stuffed owl presiding over it; book-cases filled with all that a student needs to have at hand, leaning in comfortable retirement against the walls; a study. with room enough for fifty people, and not too much...
This is the title of a very entertaining work on horsemanship by Col. Theodore A. Dodge, U. S. Army. The most notewortey feature of the book are the plates, which are phototype reproductions from photographs of Patroclus, the author's famous horse, taken in action by Baldwin Coolidge. Of these the author says in his preface, "their origin lay in the bebelief that a fine gaited horse could be instantaneously photographed, and still show the agreeable action which all horse-lovers admire, and have been habituated to see drawn by artists, instead of the ungainly positions usually resulting from...