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...subject of Mr. Copeland's fourth lecture-to be given in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock this evening-is Tobias Smollett, author of "Roderick Random," "Peregrine Pickle," and "Humphrey Clinker." The lecture will be part biography, part criticism. In the treatment of Smollet's work, his novels will be discussed not only in themselves, but in their degree of contrast to the novels of Fielding and Thackeray, and their degree of likeness to those of Dickens...
...when you have found out a thing or two from him, you may be willing to withdraw your suggestion. On the other hand, if it is sensible, your idea will be well received. In short, if you really want to accomplish anything, go about it quietly. A little less random reform, please, gentlemen...
...recently been published under the auspices of the Cambridge Y. W. C. A. It is not a guide book, but attempts to take the reader into the life of Cambridge and make known to him something of the past and present of the city. The following sketches taken at random give one an idea of the scope of the work...
...sitting at the centre, feels from all quarters the faintest vibration that gives promise of mental food. Not a chance mote can be driven against it by the wind that does not send a thrill to the brain along some one of these subtile intellectual fibres stretched seemingly at random in every direction, yet bound one to the other by flying buttresses of almost invisible association, and coming together in the middle point where sits the alert spinner himself...
...much brightness, and gives an interesting account of Harvard College in the days of President Quincy, abounding in reminiscences of well-known students and professors. Another paper of reminiscent interest is a charming essay by Mr. H. C. Merwin, "On Growing Old;" while Dr. William Henry Furness offers some "Random Reminiscences of Emerson," which throw new light on the personality of the philosopher of Concord...