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...BEWARE of the man of one book," particularly when it is a subscription book...
...Undergraduates' Record," a book on Columbia fraternities, societies, &c., has lately appeared...
...institution that has never yet taken the slightest notice of him. We confess it had occurred to us that there was only one man who could properly edit a "Harvard" Shakspere, and that man was our own Professor Child; it had also occurred to us that there were other books than those prepared by Mr. Hudson on our shelves and in use in our Shakspere classes, - namely, the series edited with so much skill and accuracy by Mr. William J. Rolfe, of Cambridge, and also the excellent Clarenden Press manuals of Mr. W. Aldis Wright. And in the critical line...
YALE has at last a book of undergraduate poetry, compiled from the columns of its biweeklies and monthly. It is, of course, a hopeful sign that such a book should be published; but we cannot very heartily congratulate our sister college upon its appearance. The average excellence is distinctly below the Harvard standard; the book will not for a moment compare with the "Verses from the Harvard Advocate," published a few years since, and many humorous or sentimental poems that have appeared in our papers since. And we say this in all candor, not in prejudice or undue self-praise...
Here the old lady wiped her glasses vigorously; then she took from her pocket a little book, on which was written in mysterious letters - ???, and also the magic paper, which she said would call up to his aid the good fairy Bond, who would intercede for him with the Bowsir. At this point Henry's little sister Lulu came running in with two seedcakes and a lump of sugar for Henry to carry in his pocket to sustain him on his weary journey; which thoughtfulness so affected the boy that with streaming eyes he kissed these dear ones good...