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AMONG recent publications, we feel called upon to notice "An Essay on Human Understanding," by a certain Locke, of England. The book is evidently to be taken as an extravaganza or philosophical romance, and is designed, by a pleasing species of reductio ad absurdum, to ridicule the philosophers who were...
M. LECOCQ, the composer of La Fille de Madame Angot, is engaged on a new operetta entitled Frederick the Great. The scene is laid in Holland, and the flute-playing monarch is the leading character.
"In spite of the familiar picture of the moral dangers which environ the student, there is no place so safe as a good college during the critical passage from boyhood to manhood. The security of the college commonwealth is largely due to its exuberant activity. Its public opinion, though easily...
Resolved, That, while recognizing the infinite wisdom of Providence in removing from us one whose abilities have done so much to advance the cause of science in this country, and whose unassuming character has so endeared him to all those connected with him, we deeply lament the loss of one...
WERE we not guilty of this very fault, we should, to begin with, say a word against the haste with which most of the reports of the Montpensier collection seem to have been written; but perhaps it is well to indicate, rather roughly at first, those pictures that seem to...