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After a short outline of the city government of Boston, Mr. Stone described the formation of the Good Government Association, which arose from the need of the investigation of the records of candidates for the City Council. To accomplish this, the Association, by means of volunteer investigators, traces carefully the records of all candidates, and sends printed circulars describing them to the voters. It has had an increasing success, last year placing the four men recommended for aldermen at the top of the poll...
...discussion on the subject was opened by Mr. R. A. Woods, head of the South End House in Boston. The various speakers showed that there was urgent need that pupils in the grammar and high schools should be given help and advice in choosing a vocation, and it was shown how Boston was working along this line...
...reader up to a pretty pitch of suspense, and comes near avoiding altogether the anti-climax which one has come to anticipate in tales of horror; while L. Grandgent's "The Everlasting Hills," after a highly conventional Class-Day opening, develops in a more original fashion; and only needed more space and a somewhat subtler analysis to be a psychological study of more than average interest. The critic of Alfred Noyes displays most of the vices of immature criticism: a lack of discernible method, a tendency merely to make phrases out of the well-worn vocabulary of current criticism...
...younger Italian scholars on his version of Dante. He was abstemious, yet wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite as much needed as the old one.' When worn with over-work, he could sit down to write 100 autographs for a fair in Chattanooga;--or, perhaps, go out and walk miles to secure kindness for some old friend troubled with chronic and insuperable need of money...
...obvious truth in regard to the poems of Longfellow, that while they would have been of value at any time and place, their worth towards the foundation of the literature of a new world was priceless. The first need for creating such a literature in America was, no doubt, a great original thinker such as was afforded us in Emerson. Yet Longfellow rendered a service only secondary, in enriching and refining that literature and giving it a cosmopolitan culture, providing for it an equally attentive audience in the humblest log-cabins on the prairies or in the more distant literary...