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...Lovers," 1690, and "Humorists," 1691. From English dealers the Library has lately bought with the same gift the following plays: Massinger's "Great Duke of Florence," 1636, and "City Madame," 1659; Shirley's "Changes," 1632, "Triumph of Peace," 1633, "Traytor," 1635, "Gamester," 1637, "Grateful Servant," 1637 and 1655, "Royal Master," 1638, "Maid's Revenge," 1639, "Constant Maid," 1640, "Humorous Courtier," 1640, and "Brothers," 1652; and the "Mall," 1674, a play attributed to Dryden. The latter, together, with the "Hind and the Panther," 1687, also lately bought, gives the Library an almost complete series of the first editions...
Ralph appears in the next scene as a grocer, Don Quixote, the Knight of the Burning Pestle. His master, the citizen, who directs his performance, furnishes him with various wonderful adventures, in all of which he comes to grief. He attempts to assist Humphrey in his love affairs, but is also unsuccessful in that respect, as Jasper wins Luce by having himself carried as dead to Venturewell, by whom he is immediately sent to his daughter's apartments, in order to get her to accept Humphrey. The lovers change places, and Jasper makes his escape as his own ghost. When...
...your right to take part in politics, not merely your duty to the state, but that it is demanded by your own self-respect, unless you are content to acknowledge that you are until to govern yourself and have to submit to the rule of somebody else as a master--and this is what it means if you do not do your own part in the government. Like most other things of value, education is good only in so far as it is used aright, and if it is misused or if it causes the owner to be so puffed...
...machinery. In the manufacture of machinery the same principle as that which governs any social system holds-it is not the individual skill of a workman which counts, for a good workman may be employed on a poor machine, but it is this skill, under the direction of a master mind. This shows that the essential feature of the production of wealth is not labor, as the socialists claim, but rather the ability of the inventive and directing brain. Therefore there is no reason why laborers should receive a greater share of the proceeds of industry as wages, which many...
March 21--Rev. W. G. Thayer, head master of St. Mark's School...