Word: journal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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EACH year our newspapers and magazines are interesting themselves more and more with the affairs of other countries, so that it is now no uncommon thing to find half the editorial space in a morning journal, or a long article in a leading review, devoted to the last kaleidoscopic change in a European cabinet, or indeed among European nations. Unless the reader, anxious to keep himself posted on current events, is quite well acquainted with the different forms of government in use in different countries, he soon becomes hopelessly entangled among Gallicans, Legitimists, and Republicans; a vote of want...
...following advertisement appears in the Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal...
...upholder of moral principles (for in New Haven total abstinence seems to take the place of what is understood elsewhere as morality) then entreats the editors of the Lit. not to forget that "theirs is a literary magazine in a University, and not a brewer's journal in Milwaukee...
...CURTIS'S journal is eminently what it pretends to be, - a simple account of what a man just from college noticed and experienced in a rapid tour around the world. The book is naturally valuable only to those who have never travelled; for the author kept steadily in the beaten track of tourists, and describes more his own impressions of what he saw, than the places and objects themselves. It makes, however, an interesting volume, written generally in a lively and entertaining style. The fault in the style seems to us the constant use of the present tense, which...
...journey, of which this book is the journal, lasted from the first of July, 1875, to the first of June, 1876. The author started from Boston, crossed to San Francisco, thence to Japan, China, India, up the Red Sea to Cairo, from Alexandria to Italy, through France to England, and thence home. With praiseworthy judgment he devotes most of the volume to the countries less known, and but fifteen pages to Europe and its oft-described localities. We are surprised that any one could have passed so close to the shores of Greece without setting his foot upon the land...