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...Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means so simple a matter as analysis would seem to show. And so it is with an added pleasure that we find here a tale whose very remoteness has a distinct charm in that it brings before us moods and motives as far removed from our everyday lives as is darkness from light...
...appears in some of Shakspere's historical plays, where the medley of sentiments and incidents is such that we are bewildered as by a rumbling and unintelligible noise. In the great tragedies, except Lear, this element, although constantly appearing as a living background for the principal figures, is kept distinctly subordinate: Othello is almost classic in its unity and continuity; Macbeth, although less compact, still turns on a single event; while Hamlet draws its variety and intricacy from the character of the hero, and not from any great admixture of foreign matter. But in King Lear we have two distinct...
President Webb says: "The graduates and men instructed at my own college are well known to have been so signally successful in the civil service as to be placed in a distinct class. They lead with ease in the law school, and in the medical college. They are not afraid of competition with the graduates of any college. Every attempt to give to seniors, or to juniors election in their studies has proved to be contrary to the system which has produced the results of which we are justly proud. Everything of this nature appears...
Turning from our American institutions of learning, where there exists a recognized equality among students, to English universities, we find there great class distinction. The under-graduates of the University of Oxford are divided into six distinct classes, distinguished from one another, not only by certain privileges, but even by their college dress. The following are these classes...
...Devil has always been my favorite character in fiction. And, if we may judge by the extent to which he figures in the literature of every age since the Christian era, he has always been a favorite with both readers and writers. The Devil is distinctly a Christian character. The Greeks, the Romans, and the Oriental nations, all had conceptions of spirits of evil of one kind or another, but all quite distinct from the Devil. The Old Testament contains a character very slightly sketched, which Christians have generally identified with the Devil. But the spirit of evil who tempted...