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...thou dost read this book with but thine...
Thus shortly may we dispose of the faults of the book; to speak fully of its merits would require much more space. As has already been said, it is remarkable for the vivid, and, on the whole, correct idea which it gives us of Harvard men and Harvard life. Some of the scenes are particularly well drawn, - the account of the foot-ball match, for instance, that of the boat-race, and the description of Class Day. The tone of the book is thoroughly good and manly, always excepting the love-scenes, which give little pleasure and excite still less...
...Hammersmith" will obtain a fixed position as the Harvard novel, is a question which must be left to the decision of the more experienced; that it will gain great popularity, and deserved popularity, in the present, can be safely affirmed. In spite of its length, it is a pleasant book to read, and some parts of it will bear more than one reading. We recommend it to all Harvard men as a companion in their summer travels...
...Moses King's little book entitled "Harvard and its Surroundings," which is a guide-book of a character worthy of the great University of New England, is the following unique advertisement, which, after an appropriate verse to the air of "Fair Harvard," proceeds as follows...
...BEACON STREET, BOSTON,June 24, 1878.DEAR SIR: I find your little book a very satisfactory guide to the most interesting Cambridge localities, well written, well arranged, and exceedingly well illustrated. I must not praise it as if I had carefully studied all its details, but I am disposed to be something more than pleased to see so compact, so well-filled, so handsomely presented a manual for the use of the stranger in the University city, - one too which the native of the town will find to contain much that he has forgotten and not a little which...