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...Calendar, which we publish this morning, contains many attractive features. Greatest interest is felt in the Tuesday lectures on professions, and the announcement that next Tuesday Dr. Edes, is to speak on Medicine will be welcomed. But the reader's enthusiasm is rather dampened when he finds that he has once more to crowd himself into Sever 11. We think it unfortunate that the Natural History Society and Dr. Farnham are to tug with each other for audiences, but suppose that the contest was not to be avoided. With the various seminars and readings the Symphony Concert and the lecture...
Semitic Seminar. Reader: Mr. A. W. Martin. Subject: Date of the Book of Ruth. No. 7 Lowell...
...literary excellence reached in the preceding numbers. Yet one is sorely tempted to say with Jeffrey "This will never do." While the two leading articles, those by Mr. Humphreys and Mr. Fullerton, are admirable in their tone of life and good health, the remaining papers force upon the reader an uncomfortable sense of his own and the general wretchedness...
...from the discovery of America to the present time . . . Incidentally, Professor Laughlin demolishes the most distinctive portion of the work of Mr. Dana Horton - that relating to the supposed disturbance of the equilibrium of the precious metals by the Bank of England's resumption in 1819 - and gives the reader a strong impression of the superficiality of Mr. Horton's studies...
...this for use as a college text-book. Another advantage of this edition is that the commentary is printed on the same page with the text. This practice is almost universal in Germany, is very generally adopted by English editors, and conduces greatly to the convenience of the reader." - N. Y. Nation...