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HINTS FOR HOME READING. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York, 1880. This book, we imagine, may do good in very illiterate families, that have never attained to higher reading than the dime novel or New York Weekly. The most valuable information in the volume is the quotation of Emerson's Three Rules of Reading, - beyond this there is little that is instructive. There is, however, much that is amusing. Henry Ward Beecher, for instance, advises all readers to shun history, as being little better than a fairy tale. Joseph Cook also makes many characteristic remarks in two papers that...
...Reserved Book Fiend is abroad. A book on Comparative Anatomy suddenly disappeared, and after two weeks just as suddenly returned to the shelves. Several reserved books in History 9 have also gone on a vacation. The popular theory that spiritualistic mediums are at work here is repudiated by the Library authorities. But whether the thief is a spirit or not, the College authorities, if they detect him, will treat him very materially...
...easel? The plague take those g - s for taking off my easel and leaving it there in the corner. What! Indiscretion, thy name is woman! Look, she has written her title, May Antigone Livingstone, on my easel. Some one has said we can do nothing worse than write a book about an enemy, but I am certain that I can do nothing better than to paint Antigone beside her name, either as she is, might, or should have been, or as I imagine her to be. But what school shall I take as a model? I rather like the French...
References. - Locke on the Understanding, Book II. Dugald Stewart's Works, edition by Hamilton, I., 348, &c., 389. Thomas Brown's Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, IV. Fleming, Manual of Moral Philosophy. Upham, Moral Philosophy, I. N. Porter, Human Intellect. Todd's Cyclopaedia, article on Sleep, by W. B. Carpenter. Maudsley, Physiology and Pathology of the Mind. Spencer, Principles of Psychology...
Russ.[It seems to us that the difficulty above mentioned might be prevented, if the authorities should have it stipulated with Mr. Sever that no more than the usual retail book-trade price (with discount for cash) be charged for any books used in College courses...