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...literary event of no small importance to us, and is a triumphant answer to those who assert that literature is at a discount here. The books are now in press, and will be for sale in a few days. Both are in pamphlet form, and, when published, may be had at the bookstore. We have advance sheets of both before us, and we predict for one, at least, a ready sale. The first was doubtless suggested by an article in the last Magenta. It is entitled "A Complaint of the Increase of Beggars in the University," and, as we read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CURIOSITY IN LITERATURE. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

...that imagination is common sense turned inside out, instead of common sense sublimed. The writers of this style of poetry have been so well and so often satirized that one can hardly speak of them without trespassing upon ground already occupied; but, to distinguish them beyond a doubt, it may be said that, of this school, William Morris, perhaps, stands upon the highest round of the ladder of respectability, and Walt Whitman upon the lowest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POPULAR POETS. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...husband. Alas! Joaquin Miller has fallen, and the place of the Popular Poet is vacant once more. For the present, we can merely conjecture in what particular way the coming poet will set at defiance God, man, or nature. That he will do so in some way we may safely conclude from the latest productions of those who aspire to hold his future position. In the mean time we must await him with all the patience we can, and be ready to greet him as heartily as we have his predecessors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POPULAR POETS. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...darling, may...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG FROM "LOVE'S PLAINT." | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...love I may not speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG FROM "LOVE'S PLAINT." | 4/4/1873 | See Source »