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...Revolution. In its corners are the dents of revolutionary muskets stacked there by the patriot soldiers. Here, also, Oliver Wendell Holmes, America's greatest wit and one of her most charming writers, was born. Loosely bound to the past and with but few historical associations, the loss of so famous a building would be irreparable. Misfortune through it be, we fear the Holmes house is doomed, and that after this year we shall never see the only monument in Cambridge which brings back our past vividly to us, and is, as it were, a link to the America...
Considerable interest was manifested in the tennis games played last summer in England between the famous Renshaw brothers and the Clarks, because these games seemed to be a fair teat of two distinct styles of play, which may be said to be fairly representative. Mr. Evelegh, who was referee in these matches, recently expressed himself in the most unprejudiced manner as very much pleased with the play of the Americans, which, of its style, was the best he had ever seen. But he also said "that the style was entirely wrong. Against men of the Renshaw 'calibre,' they played...
...asserted at Milan that the German Government are negotiating for the purchase of the famous Ossuna library. The price asked by the Ossuna family is said to be six million francs. The library was formed by the Duke of Ossuna, who was governor of Milan under Charles IV., of Spain, from 1670 to 1674. The most valuable contents of the library are the Petrarch manuscripts...
...greatness of Cambridge, save as a university town, is fast passing away, if indeed its fame has ever been separable from of Harvard. As a city of revolutionary memories Cambridge of course if famous. As for a long time the home of two of the greatest American poets it is everywhere known. But its fame in this last respect certainly, has been principally due to the college, for it was as professors at Harvard that much of the lives of both Mr. Lowell and the late Prof. Long fellow were passed...
...taboo it as brutal because they cannot see its science, and who remember that to every man who hunts there are a thousand who play foot-ball, and that the percentage of accidents in the hunting field very far exceeds that of foot-ball accidents. He still reads that famous chapter descriptive of the schoolhouse match in "Tom Brown"-a chapter which, next to the other famous one concerning the fight between Tom and Slogger Williams, has been more read by English boys than any other of any other book in the language-as he used to read...