Word: publication
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...King announces himself on the title-page as a member of Harvard College; he would have done better to have kept that fact to himself. He evidently had some compunctions about proclaiming it in this public manner, for he puts it in brackets. As a matter of taste it would have been better to have left out this statement. It is entirely irrelevant, to say the least...
...many respects this handbook is very much like other handbooks, but it has one original feature, - the headings of the chapters. Mr. King conceived the idea of comparing the different classes of public works, institutions, etc., to the different parts of the human body. He starts off swimmingly with the streets, bridges, sewers, and horse-railroads as arteries, goes on with the railroads and shipping as arms, and then has to give it up temporarily when he gets to hotels and restaurants. We would suggest a comparison of these to the stomach; it is certainly just as appropriate...
...exhibition of water-colors and drawings which is now open at 2 Thayer reflects great credit on the Art Club, which has opened to the public the valuable collection of works of art made by Mr. Moore during his recent residence in Europe. It is very unsatisfactory, and we may add unprofitable, for the art student to be obliged to study the works of masters through the medium of photographs. No conception of color and only an imperfect conception of form can be derived by this means. Mr. Moore has fully appreciated this fact, and with the purpose of educating...
...awake; I must therefore warn you to make less noise,' and then disappeared. 'It's your proctor,' yelled the company, - we broke up in disgust. A short time afterwards, I was thoughtless enough to permit a little singing in my room; the head again appeared, and I got a public the next day. It was just the same the whole year, so I resolved to change my room...
ANOTHER Charley Ross has been found; but not the one who lost his glasses in the Boston Public Garden more than a year ago, and was advertised in the Herald...