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...chief value, we think, will appear if it is used as an introduction to the study of Shakspere. We are pleased to find in it none of the absurdities of the "inductive" school of criticism, which makes what should be a literary work seem like a text-book on graphic algebra or spherical geometry. The method here is absolutely sane and sound, the style is lucidity itself, fact is everywhere kept clear from inference, and there is no gush. There is not a silly sentence in the book. What reader of Dowden or Fleay can say that...
...London Graphic contains an article on the training of the Harvard and Yale crews...
...interest to students of history is "The Princess Anne" by M. O. W. Oliphant. It is filled with engravings of portraits of many notable persons of her time. Josephine Lazarus has given us a sympathetic sketch of "Margaret Fuller" outlining the chief events of her life, closing with a graphic description of her tragic death and an analysis of her character. A pretty little dialect poem is "I's Never Feared for my Ould Man." "Benefits Forgot" is continued. "The Heart of the Tale" is a melodious bit of poetry showing thoughtfullness and feeling. There are a few other short...
Insincerity is his especial abomination, and he devotes himself to condemning it. True valor is the fountain of true virtue, and it is only in his sincerity and veracity, that the hero differs from ordinary mortals. The secret of the graphic qualities of Carlyle's style lies in his noble, loving heart. The talent he showed was in turning the history of England into a kind of Iliad - almost a Bible. His histories are collections of biographies, and his idea of a biography was a very exalted one. He sought after the central moral principle of the man, then...
...flower is best studied by means of schedules - graphic representations of the arrangement and plan of the parts, from which the species can readily be found in any botany. The use of these schedules trains in the pupil the faculties of observation and comparison. At the request of some of the audience some views of the California trees were shown after the lecture...