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MANTEL MIRRORS. - This branch of manufacturing is now carried on extensively in Boston at PAINE'S. They also are importers of gilt and bronze frames from Italy and France. Some very fine heavy carved frames in Florentine gold leaf have been put in their ware-rooms on Canal street, opposite Boston and Maine depot...
...late Franco-Prussian war. The first feature that one remarks in the picture is the beautiful play of light. Although the coloring does not affect one favorably, yet the fine draughting and grouping of the figures show the masterhand of the man, who, with De Neuville, leads this branch of the French school. The second is one of De Neuville's, a much smaller picture, equally attractive both in point of merit and ability. Bonheur is the artist of the third, an Alpine scene with only two exquisitely drawn figures of animals, this time deer. It is impossible to describe...
...trying to grasp a branch, and grasping...
...right direction. A course covering six years will certainly be an inducement to those interested in the study of modern languages; and if Harvard takes no forward step in the matter, it is easy to see what the relative position of the two colleges will be, in this one branch at least, a dozen years hence. The study of modern languages, Teutonic and Romance, is surely, if slowly, taking the place of Greek and Latin in the scheme of liberal culture. Harvard will show foresight in not allowing herself to be surpassed by Columbia, the college which, from liberality...
...valuable and necessary a part of a practical education a thorough knowledge of Chemistry is destined in a few years to become. On this account it seems strange that Harvard, whose Chemistry department is wellnigh perfect, should neglect to provide for instruction in such an important branch as Practical Assaying. Perhaps the proximity of the Boston Institute of Technology has induced our Faculty to believe that any such course at Harvard was needless, but we are positive that there are many of us who would be glad to get some instruction in Assaying, but who do not care...