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...will now look at some of the consequences of this feebleness of our retentive powers. The disadvantages resulting from forgetfulness of studies are far from being the only ones. How often have we been baffled in trying to recall the incidents or the characters of a book which we have once read! What has been our mortification at ransacking our minds to no purpose for historical facts with which we were once perfectly familiar, and of which it is even a positive disgrace to be ignorant! A "Dictionary of Familiar Quotations" is no substitute for words which we wish...
...praises that of which it is most appreciative. The Courant, the man full grown, with his reasoning and aesthetic faculties fully developed, commends, with dignified discrimination, the beauties of thought and diction; while the little Record, with all the freshness and simplicity of a child conning its first picture-book, regards not the matter, but admires, with enthusiastic delight, the beautiful form and appearance of our paper...
Toss down beside thee this vellum book...
...plan of the book is new, and its style very neat. The gentlemen who have given their time and trouble to its preparation deserve our gratitude. The Index can be found at Richardson...
...BOOK on Athletic Sports, of three or four hundred pages, is soon to be published at McGill University, Canada, and will find its way here about the middle of March. It is to contain a chapter on Boating, with articles from Oxford and Cambridge. Yale, also, will probably supply some information, and a letter has been received by the President of the Boat Club here asking for a contribution to the chapter from Harvard...