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...Spider has caught sight of me, - he is coming; but I am a match for him. He will find a barbed hook hidden beneath the fair exterior of this...
...written on slips, and hung on books provided for the purpose, and any one is at liberty to answer them. The idea has become very popular, and will probably be useful, though to judge from the queries, their authors might easily have found the answers on their own hook, without having recourse to the hooks of the Library...
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...
...present constituted, the Harvard University Boat-Club is a boat-club only in name, and consists of an association that hires the boat-house, and, by hook or by crook, scrapes together enough money to pay the expenses of the University crew or to arrange its debts. Instead of encouraging the real interest in boating, it rather discourages it by calling on the undergraduates for $2,000 or $3,000 every year without giving anybody a chance to row excepting the crew and those who go to the additional expense of buying a boat and paying rent on it. Membership...
...THEODORE HOOK'S old joke has been played upon a Cambridge student, whose room was overrun not long ago by half the tradesmen in town. Among other articles some silverware and a piano were delivered to him. The Journal thinks the hoax "cruel and childish...