Word: books
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...book entitled "American Colleges" will be published during the winter. Mr. C. Richardson of the Independent is to be the editor and publisher...
...Osgood & Co. are to publish the Princeton Book. The book is to be illustrated by heliotypes, and will be issued during the coming winter...
...barring that horrible mantel-piece, which I did my best to conceal with a heavy cloth, there is nothing in it that does not please the eye. So far I have done my best for you. There are two things which I have left to your own taste, - books and pictures. You will of course need to buy a certain number of text-books, and if you take my advice, you will also pick up from time to time any outside books that may suit your fancy. You can't have too large a library, and nothing furnishes a room...
...think, therefore, that those who lived eighty or a hundred years after him might desire the same information in regard to the time in which he lived, and he resolved, as far as lay in his power, to furnish this information. Accordingly he carried a note-book with him on his travels, and took down observations on the appearance of the towns and country through which he passed, the customs of the people, and any peculiarities which struck him as worth preserving. These notes he afterwards embodied into letters addressed to an English gentleman, and published them in four large...
ANOTHER aspirant for the title of the American Tom Hughes has made his appearance. A book called "Student Life at Harvard" is about to be published, written, it is understood, by one of the class of '64. The extracts we have seen from the advance sheets indicate something very much like a repetition of "Fair Harvard," or, at least, more like that work than like "Tom Brown." Whenever an excellent story of the life of undergraduates here is written, it will be received with enthusiasm, and the reputation of its author will be made. The book that is to succeed...