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...Robert Lincoln, it is rumored, will succeed David Davis in the Senate...
Last evening the Boston Caledonian Club celebrated the 123d anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, in Horticultural Hall...
...close connection of authorship with politics at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and its bad effects on literary production. Fulsome dedications and political services in the way of adulation and satiric composition were the chief claims to patronage and the means of gaining a livelihood. With Sir Robert Walpole the Augustan age of English literature ceased, and authorship became so precarious an avocation that many authors were reduced to the extremest straits and to absolute want...
Edward Hanlan, the champion oarsman of the world, sailed Saturday for England in the steamer City of Chester. No one accompanied him. Mr. W. J. Innis, his backer in England, has made everything satisfactory for the race with Robert Watson Boyd, the English champion, in April. The race is to be for $1000 a side, from the Mansion House to Scotswood suspension bridge on the Tyne...
...Robert Lowry was yesterday installed as governor of Mississippi...