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Taking any few of them into comparison, their scales of prices are absurdly varied. Of two recent catalogues of firms with which our students have dealings, the prices of volumes of "Bohn's Library" are just one third higher in one than the other, though the lower price named is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

But here let our indictment rest. Completeness might require us to make it longer, but brevity demands that we make haste to cut it short.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

THAT many persons who enjoy the privileges of our Reading-room resolutely refuse to subscribe seems to point to the fact that the Reading-room is considered as common property. The disappearance of Harper's Weekly and several other journals within the last few days shows that this erroneous opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

A very entertaining pamphlet, being sometimes highly ludicrous at places where "the laugh" was hardly intended to "come in" by the author. It is written from the antediluvian-proslavery point of view. Unparalleled and impossible virtues are invented for the past, and every exceptional case of transgression in modern times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

Among the gems of purest lustre to be found in this sparkling brochure, we may quote his playful allusion to the Reverend Theodore Parker as a "spawn of hell"; his tribute to our honored chief-magistrate, -

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »