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...more than this, there is a pleasure rarely to be enjoyed in comparing the old poet with the new, in setting side by side the simple, earnest naturalness of the one, and the complex thought, richer and fuller, of the other. Two passages are cited by Mr. Furnival, which well illustrate the contrast: first, the reply of Sir Bedivere...
...old men croak about a wasted life. Pleasure is the only good. So live on merrily, and if you should happen to end your days in an inebriate asylum you would n't care especially, and surely the world would be no great loser...
...course of readings in the same author, by the same professor, while highly appreciated by the Cambridge society, hardly draws fifty students, though given in the evening, when one's mind is comparatively free. The phenomenon we see, but the explanation is not so evident. Perhaps the old saw about the sweeping powers of the new broom applies here...
...study of music was crowded to repletion by an enthusiastic audience of students on Professor Paine's first recital, and the second and third were equally successful. To the lovers of classical music there is no more precious opportunity than this. Here we can renew our acquaintance with our old friends Chopin, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Sebastian Bach, and all the chief classical masters. I cannot be too urgent in my appeal to all to embrace this opportunity to hear the best classical music; for nothing so elevates and purifies a man's soul, and stimulates all that is noble...
THEODORE HOOK'S old joke has been played upon a Cambridge student, whose room was overrun not long ago by half the tradesmen in town. Among other articles some silverware and a piano were delivered to him. The Journal thinks the hoax "cruel and childish...