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...conditions under which the dream happened to me were these.-Last Friday I read a very dull book nearly all day,-"grinding" for the Mid-years. At length, in the evening, I could stand it no longer. My mind was tired, my memory overtaxed. With one last attempt to master my author's dullness, I yielded to him and retired from the contest exhausted. To invigorate myself I turned to De Quincey. I chanced to take up the volume on Murder, and tried the story of the murderer Johnson. The first few pages were interesting. The interest developed. Before...
Unless at least seven more men sign their names in the book at Bartlett's by this evening, the dinner will have to be given up. It is to be hoped that this will not happen, as it would put the club in an awkward position to-wards its guests who have accepted the invitation to be present at the dinner...
...book at Bartlett's must be signed on or before to-morrow. To make the dinner a success, many more names must be obtained. Unless this can be done the dinner will have to be given up. As the committee would greatly regret this evidence of lack of enthusiasm, we would earnestly urge every man to attend who possibly...
...articles, " Time in Shakespeare's Comedies," by Henry A. Clapp, and " The Consolidation of the Colonies," by Brooks Adams, together with a paper called " The Brown-Stone Boy," and a Mexican travel paper, " A Plunge into Summer," by Sylvester Baxter, complete the longer articles of the number. The usual book reviews and short notices, together with the Contributor's Club (which contains a criticism of Mr. Watts's pictures), close this issue. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston...
Unless two hundred paid subscriptions can be secured for the Lampoon within two week's time, the paper will be compelled to suspend publication. The price per subscription for the remaining half year is $1.50. A book will be immediately placed at Bartlett's, and everyone who is interested in seeing the Lampoon continued, is urgently requested to enter his name there at once. Seventy-five of those who subscribed at the beginning of the year have not yet paid their subscriptions. The money for these must be obtained within a few days, as the paper is seriously involved. Subscription...