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...love of Carmichael, a Covenanting Minister, and Kate Carnegie, a girl of Jacobite descent, and the stress between their mutual love on the one side, and their political and religious differences on the other, furnishes material for a story full of delightful situations in which the author moves the reader's sympathies and appeals to his sense of humor. Those, however, who came to it expecting a story, or a "novel" will be disappointed, for it is really nothing more than a series of most delightful sketches of the characters in Drumtochty...
...English by Paul Meurice (Houghton Mifflin and Co.) It is a work of remarkable interest, including as it does Hugo's unpublished letters to his father, wife, children, and to many famous persons. But much of the refinement and delicacy of phrase is lost in the translating; and the reader feels that he is hearing Hugo's words from the lips of some one else and not from the author himself...
SINGERS trained for the Glee Club. Tenor wanted for church. Good reader. R. N. Lister, vocal culture, 19 Putnam avenue, Cambridge...
...first two chapters of a story by Arthur Stanwood Pier, entitled "A Considerate Fraud," although well written, are inclined to bore the reader with needless details. The introductory chapters, however, promise an interesting sequel...
Among a number of rather exasperating restrictions in the Harvard Library there is one which seems particularly without reason. I do not mean the rule which forbids you to remove the drawers from the card catalogue, although that frequently forces the reader to sprawl on the floor if he desires to consult the lower drawers, and often causes a considerable waste of time when some one else is using one of the drawers in the same column with the one which you wish to use. Nor do I refer to the law which denies holders of cards the access...