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...exertions than the ancients. The men of the present day, we know, are larger than they were in bygone years, and therefore they should be more powerful; for it is an acknowledged axiom in sport that, other things being equal, "a big one will always beat the little one." - Nineteenth Century...
Everybody must have been struck at one time or another by the truth of some of the facts about athletes stated in the current number of the "Nineteenth Century...
Pretentious things are not always the best, nor are small things the worst; the Greek gem is far more truly a work of art than the nineteenth century plaque. This is the case with the February "Monthly," where by far the best two things are the little epigrammatic verses, "Ben Jonson and the Stage," by F. S. Palmer, and "Landor," by H. S. Sanford, These are at the same time highly finished and pointed melodious and witty. Mr. Palmer has produced little better than this in all his previous writings...
...fact that only one man in thirty has a fine philosophical mind; and like the "little learning" which is so dangerous, a smattering of philosophical cant develops a sophistical way of thinking and reasoning that is often absolutely destructive to high purposes. How many of the amateur philosophers and nineteenth Greeks in college to-day could give even a plausible reason for the constitutionality of a bill in Congress - a question asked on a recent examination paper. And if they could not answer intelligently to themselves, whether the promoters and the signers of such a bill were doing their country...
Semitic Seminary. Subject: Jewish Literature of the nineteenth Century. Reader: Mr. Bernhard Berenson. 7 Lowell...