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This is a day when, in listening to the poet's and the orator's words, petty feelings of inequality, of jealousies, are forgotten and buried, when one more band is woven which firmly binds, in the dearest friendship, men who otherwise would hardly know one another...
...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 carry the ordinary reader into a world entirely...
Jules Verne's extravagant stories have a sort of fish-hook interest about them. It is too often forgotten by those who criticise him severely that he writes for the young, and that almost all he publishes appears in a magazine for young folks. To my unscientific mind he succeeds perfectly in what he attempts to do. One of his latest works, L'lle Mysterieuse, is a sort of Robinson Crusoe romance. But there is, after all, little choice among his books, of which everybody should at least read one in the original. Hector Malot's Romain Kalbris...
...Princetonian, speaking of the Princeton-Harvard game, says: "Altogether, the game was intensely interesting, and one which shall not soon be forgotten by those present. The umpiring of Mr. Bird gave entire satisfaction, and we take great pleasure in remarking on the perfect good feeling which prevailed during the entire game...
...invited to sign it; and it was hoped that it would be signed by a sufficient number to organize some sort of an unofficial celebration, which should serve as a nucleus for spreads, and as a neutral meeting-ground, where the squabbles of the past six months might be forgotten. The representatives of certain sections of the class, however, did not see fit to take this petition in the spirit in which it was laid before them. For reasons best known to themselves, they declined to see in it anything more than a revival of the sectional feuds which...