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...English Readings. "The Nutbrowne Maid." Professor Child. Sever 11, 7.30 P. M. (Last reading...
Schiller, by James Sime, is the latest foreign classic for English readers. Forthcoming volumes in this series will be on Tasso and on Rousseau...
...English Men of Letter series "Charles Lamb," by A. Ainger, is the latest issue. In the Golden Treasury series selections from Landor by Sidney Colvin, Professor of Art at Cambridge, and selections from Mahomet by S. L. Poole, are announced...
...feature is the absence of pledges. Harvard students rightly wish to be free to change their opinions and habits whenever they see sufficient reasons for changing them. A political club does not require a pledge from each member that he will never change his mind, and join another party. English Free Trade societies do not require a pledge of eternal belief in the superiority of Free Trade over Protection. Neither will this society take pledges for the practice of total abstinence. It is intended that membership shall mean total abstinence, but as a member can withdraw from the society...
There is a very noticeable flavor in these Register articles of the style and habits of thought of the English eighteenth century. Perhaps Dr. Holmes acquired his alleged Pope-like style from the practice of his college days in this sort of writing. If we were to quote certain passages from this book credited to their true authors, we fear we should be held for high treason; for what a ludicrous lowering of dignities there would be! If it were to be known that an overseer of Harvard once penned Horatian stanzas of the following sort, where would all authority...