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...opening story, "A Question of Medicine or Law," would be interesting if it were original, instead of being older than the hills. It may be asked also whether the familiar anecdote would not have been more pleasing to the reader in a more fanciful form, instead of in this prosaic garb. The conceit of the plot does not harmonize with the author's treatment...
Semitic Seminary. Reader, Mr. John Orne. Subject, Mythical Material in the Thousand and One Nights. Sever...
...MONDAY.Semitic Seminary. Reader, Mr. John Orne. Subject, Mythical Material in the Thousand and One Nights. Sever...
...happening to, celebrated personages, all tending to show the value of the power of conversation. Perhaps the two most interesting talks are those on Garrick and Sheridan; they are nothing more than anecdote after anecdote, no critical analysis of the men: still they cannot fail to impress the reader. Here and there we find a touch of orginality, perhaps in no conversation more than in "essays in titles...
...article. The writer is so evidently behind the times, and his spiteful motive is so thinly disguised, that it would hardly be worth while to reply to him if he had not manipulated the figures from the catalogue in such a way as easily to mislead the casual reader. What his letter is worth as intelligent criticism may be shown by his glaring mistakes in saying: "C. J. was and still is the Register of the Faculty;" the Everett "Athenaeum is the rival of the Institute. it flourishes and attracts many of the men;" and other equally evident blunders...