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...Peckster Professorship" by J. P. Quincy is what one might call a psychical novel. The author seems to have caught the popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although...
...Darling contributes a short review of Mrs. Ward's "Robert Elsmere," and presents an estimate of the value of the novel. The article makes no pretense of being a criticism but it will be interesting to those who have not yet read the work, inasmuch as it is a clear exposition of the incidents, the characters and the motive of the story...
...Sanders Theatre tomorrow, was shown by the immediate disposal of all the best seats, and in a short time nothing but admission tickets could be procured. The position in which M. Coquefin will be placed of lecturing before such a large body of American students will be a novel one, the more so because this opportunity will probably be the only one he can find time to accept during his tour in this country. That he may never regret his experience in talking to us, the welcome accorded him should be warm and sympathetic. That M Coquelin...
...postponement of the republican torchlight parade to Nov. 5, was in order to give time to introduce some novel and unexpected features, and to complete the details of arrangement. The route will be determined in a day or two. Major F. G. King, of the 1st regiment, M. V. M., has accepted the position of first marshal...
Charles E. L. Wingate, Harvard '83, and formerly news editor of the Daily Herald of Harvard, dramatic editor of the Boston Daily Journal, and editor of the "Playgoers' Year Book," has written a novel that Belford, Clarke and Co. are to bring out in the September number of "Belford's Magazine." The story, it is said, will create considerable attention on account of its daring invasion into a psychological question never before broached in literature. Its title, "Can Such Things Be," suggests a provocation to discussion...