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Professor Gore, of Columbia University, has written a hand book of technical German called a "German Science Reader...
...remainder of the number is very entertaining, and the magazine reader will find the Atlantic for April one of the best of recent issues...
...Century bill-of-fare for March is varied enough to suit the most captious magazine reader. Unusually entertaining is the third installment of the famous Talleyrand Memoirs, containing, as it does, comments on the luxury and vice of Napoleon's court, which derive a peculiar flavor, coming, as they do, from the pen of Talley-rand...
...whether the principals in a Greek play acted on a long, narrow ledge, the Vetruvian stage, ten feet above the great circles of the orchestra where the chorus were grouped, or whether actors as well as chorus performed in the orchestra, is of great importance even to the general reader, as the whole stage action is involved. Until very lately, scholars following the scholiast have interpreted Greek drama from the standpoint of the existence of a stage, basing their opinions first on the authority of the scholia and certain phrase. which were taken to refer to the passages...
...paper; or one of them picks up a blue book after its writer has gone out and reads it and shakes with ill-suppressed mirth thereat. This last is maddening even if it is not your book and you are not supposed to be looking at the reader...