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...instructors and alumni. Every volume of the lot relates more or less directly to some one of the courses in the curriculum. And in this way, the student's attention is more firmly drawn to his work, doubly so as he is not distracted by shelves of useless contemporary fiction. It is to be hoped that others of our leading preparatory academics will follow the admirably example set by Phillips Exeter...
...account of the Emperor William. The student of fine arts will be interested in reading "Mr. Ruskin's Early Years." An article of real value is that on "Charles Brockden Brown," the first American novelist. The name is so seldom heard at present that the pioneer of American fiction is almost forgotten. The "Contributors' Club" and "Books of the Month" close the number...
...with his official duties as librarian of the University. Professor Child has written Part IV. of the "English and Scottish Popular Ballads." Professor Charles Eliot Norton has edited, for the Macmillans of London, the "Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle" and "The Correspondence of Gaethe and Carlyle." In the realms of fiction little has been done; but the two works published have been conceeded by all reviewers as unqualifiedly successful. "Rankell's Remains," by Mr. Barrett Wendell, was the first to appear. And then Professor Royce's "The Feud of Oakfield Creek" came. This has had a large sale...
...Romance of Dorothy Shirley" is a bit of romantic fiction written in a light vein. It is rather a pretty story, but lacks the atmosphere of the Revolutionary days...
...ready to write essays by the score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley, Park man, and the rest, but who, for lack of familiarity with Scott, must fail in his examination? Is Scott, then, the one writer of fiction whose works an American boy should read? Is there nothing in American literature that should command his attention? Is it your purpose to teach him that Hawthorne, Irving, Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Emerson and Lowell are of minor consequence in comparison with Goldsmith and Scott? Shakespeare is a matter of course...