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...Before long novelty-loving Americans will patronize cricket, a game of much more real enjoyment than they now are willing to acknowledge. The advantages of the Rugby foot-ball game were seen in the three exciting half-hours of Friday last, and we may do well to instruct our foreign cousins in playing their own game, and then try playing it ourselves...
...first opened, the managers apparently forgot that this one was for a class of readers quite different from the usual frequenters of such places. There was a slight struggle when the rules by which the room was to be governed were made, but the conservatives won the day. Everything foreign to the traditional idea of a reading-room was opposed. It was decided that it should be used for nothing but reading, and that smoking in the room should be forbidden. What I wish to suggest is, that since this policy has now been fairly tried...
...traveller from a foreign shore...
...masterpiece of Byron's productions is "Manfred"; he even likens it to Goethe's "Faust." It is, however, fortunate for the poet, that he mentions his having heard "Faust" but once, or he might be accused of plagiarism. And yet "Manfred" is not an English idea; its conception is foreign to the spirit of English poetry, and like "Werner," which we know to be an imitation, shows its German origin. Manfred has, like Faust, control over the spirit-world; like Faust, he summons them to do his bidding; but their efforts are of no avail to destroy the deep-rooted...
...that of astonishment, which soon gave way to feelings of regret that the sentiments expressed in the above-mentioned article should exist among Harvard men. How can we wonder at the rapid progress of irreverence among young Americans! With what justice can we complain of the ignorant foreign population, by whose voice our great cities are governed, when our educated young men give utterance to such thoughts...