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...instancing Saul of Tarsus as the first Christian commercial traveler, of the commercial relations of Rome, Venice and Geneva, of the business supremacy of the Medici family in Florence. As modern examples of able business men who have achieved success in other directions are Alexander Hamilton, Warren Hastings, John Bright, William E. Gladstone. There have been no notions which have become strong and influential without commerce...
...author's style in this work, as in his others, is always bright and refreshing, but here also are occasional lapses into a lower order of wit than is worthy of the writer. As a book, however, full of situations and incidents perfectly absurd and yet highly amusing nothing could be more successful...
...There is nothing else Lamb-like, however, in Mr. Lathrop's theory of the advantages for solitude of a corner. "A Forgotten Episode," is a story of Indian wrongs by Americans fifty years ago known to history as the "Spoliation of the Cherokees." Over the Teacups is as bright as ever but somewhat more sharp. Dr. Holmes cannot resist swinging his Damascus blade over literary aspirants who have nothing but aspiration. The three long stories roll on serenely, and critical, semicritical, and uncritical treatment of Tennyson, Lucy Laroom and Mrs. Cheney's Miss Alcott with The Contributor's club complete...
...thoroughly in sympathy with his work finds these more than counterbalanced by the pleasures of designing, of finding enthusiasm among his assistants, and of intimate relations with clients. Mr. Peabody warns college men against insufficient training and consequent inartistic designs and mediocre work. He shows the bright prospects of a man who enters the profession with a taste in that direction and a willingness to work and in conclusion shows the special advantages of architects in America over those of other countries...
...outlook for lacrosse this season is bright. At Princeton there is a great deal of enthusiasm, enough men being in training to compose three teams; and at both Lafayette and Stevens the material for teams is unusually good...