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...History III. yesterday morning were considerably amused by a young setter pup who persisted in remaining in the lecture room, and seemed desirous of acquiring a broader knowledge of the English constitution...
...late Dr. J. W. Draper, professor in the University of the City of New York, was of English birth and education, although he received his degree of M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania. His reputation was even broader in Europe than in this country, and several of his works received their first publication abroad. His "Intellectual Development of Europe" has been translated into many languages. The best known of his other works are: "The Conflict Between Religion and Science," "History of the American Civil War," "A Text Book of Chemistry" and "Human Physiology...
...connection with the essay on Mr. Gladstone, the following from Mr. Emerson's "English Traits" is interesting. He is speaking of English university men: "When born with good constitutions they make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men, the dura ilia, whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box-Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys; and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture...
...Perry lectures on English Literature in Sever...
...Wilde lectured in New York last night to a large and fashionable audience at Chickering Hall. He was dressed in a black dress coat, white vest, an extremely low cut shirt, with flowing white silk cravat, black knee breeches, crown stockings and slippers. He chose as his subject "The English Renaissance," which he said was the work of the aesthetes. In conclusion he said: "You have all heard of those two flowers dear to the aesthete's heart, the rose and the lily. But we do not love them for the reason given by Mr. Gilbert, nor for any vegetable...