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...lower than it has been at any preceding time.' - Review. The writer evidently thinks that the sine qua non, the multum in parvo, and the sine die still maintain their old standard, but we are unable to glean from the article whether the e pluribus unum and the et tu Brute of Cornell are on the rise or decline, although the reference to the `sub judice questions' may cover the ground." - Yale Courant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

Dulces docta modos, et citharae sciens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORS. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...Sandeau's novels will be found interesting. Le Docteur Herbeau, Sacs et Parchemins, and Mademoiselle de la Seigliere are three of his best. Alphonse Daudet has lately gained a certain celebrity. Most of his novels are very painful reading. Fromont jeune et Risler aine is his best (lately translated under the title Sidonie). Charles de Bernard deserves not to be forgotten. The volume entitled Le Noeud gordien contains several of his stories. Ferdinand Fabre has devoted himself to what might be called the novel of clerical life in France. L'Abbe Tigrane is a work of great power. It will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH SUMMER READING. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

Cinxerunt. Falcem et in manu sua tenuit curvam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING WITH EDGED TOOLS. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

...syllables of a dactyl is very unclassical. Of line seventh we can make nothing at all. The quantities run ____V ____V ____V ____VV ____, which no human power can get into a verse. But we strongly doubt if the translator knew that the em in falcem would go out before et, since line eight can only be scanned at all by keeping am in maturam before ab. In the same line, quo, though not positively wrong, should be rather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING WITH EDGED TOOLS. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

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