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Readers of Stevenson will recall, in "The Master of Ballantrae", the Hindu servant who taught his master to feign death by "swallowing his tongue". The experiment, in that case, was not altogether successful, and the author leaves doubt as to whether the Hindu really remained alive, after two week's...
From the point of view of the Caucasian race, Oriental nations always do things wrong-way-round. They are always out of step in the march of events, and usually a little behind; but lately Japan has been ahead of time-again from the point of view of the Occident...
A Russian fad, like the Oriental fad of a few years earlier, is sweeping our circles of art. It seems to have been opened by the amazingly popular "Chauve-Souris", which has already run into three editions; and it is to be carried on by an event far more notable...
Shubert.--"The Rose of Stamboul" ends its brief career. It furnishes oriental luxury conjured up by its title.
Several of the books are bound copies of the American Chess Bulletin which Mr. Wainwright won in problem tourneys. One of the books is a very rare edition of a treatise by Jacopo da Cessole and was printed in 1532. This is the work which Caxton translated and printed as...