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Mr. Copeland spoke very briefly last evening on Keats' life and poetical work. He took up especially three points: first, the statement so often made, with Shelley for authority, that Keats was "a Greek"; second, the popular impression that Keats was unmanly and effeminate; and third, the doubt expressed by...
In the United States the coinage of silver dollars was stopped by legislation in 1873. From this time dates the agition of the "Silver Question." Silver was, however, remonetized by the Bland Bill of 1878. In so far, the step was a wise one, but the unfortunate clause, providing for...
He gave an account of one of Poushkin's most characteristic creations-a novel in verse: "Eugene Oneguin,"-with an interesting sketch of the literary aspect presented by Russian society of the first decade of our century. The chief chacteristic of Poushkin's lyric poetry was harmoniousness and many sidedness...
Professor Trowbridge, director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory obtained on Wednesday afternoon a distinct impression upon a photographic plate by means of the Professor Rontgen cathode rays acting through wood and pasteboard. The impression has been fixed and is capable of giving a print upon ordinary blue print or other...
The current thus furnished to the coil being an alternating one, the appearance of the tube during action was somewhat different from that ordinarily described. The fluorescent effects were less sharply localized than usual. From the ease with which the photographic effect was obtained, it appears doubtful whether so complicated...