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...permit us to call it a very promising effort. There is not much to be said for "Anna Polanova" a story placed in the high life of St. Petersburg. There are enough larynxruffling gutterals in the name of the various "vitches" and "ovnas" to make a careless reader believe that it is a powerful Russian story, but a closer perusal will show that things are not always what they seem. It takes more than a few well-compounded consonants to make a good story Russian Turkish or Chinese. Some minor verses and book notices make up the rest...
...MONDAY.Semitic Seminary. Reader: Mr. J. R. Jewett. Subject: Beyrut as an Archxological Centre. 7 Lowell street...
Professor J. W. Churchill, of Andover, the distinguished reader, will preach at Prospect-street Church tomorrow at 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Professor Churchill is a graduate of Harvard...
...MONDAY.Semitic Seminary. Reader: Prof. Lyon. Subject: The Literature on Semitic Art and Archaeology. 7 Lowell street...
...American readers will welcome the translation of Dr. von Hoist's 'Constitutional Law of the United States of America' (Chicago: Callaghan & Co.). The author apologizes for consenting to its appearance in this country. It is, he says, but a sketch, written as part of a larger book for German readers - Marquardsen's 'Handbuch des Oeffentlichen Rechts.' - He was limited, moreover, to a very inadequate space, and had to compress his material unduly, and wholly to throw out much; and 'my only literary resources were my private library and the notes previously taken in the British Museum and American libraries.' These...