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...about 240,000 volumes and about 233,000 pamplets. Five thousand five hundred and six volumes beside the reserved books, were taken out or used in the library during the year, but in this enumeration, if the same volumes were used twice, it counted for two volumes. These figures show a part of any great library is used in a manner which figures can record' On the most favorable interpretation, not one book in four of the whole number in the library was used at all last year, except by persons having access to the shelves and using books...
...that he has certain absolute qualifications for the degree he applies for. That Princeton should make this new departure is rather a surprise, but now that she has concentrated the attention of the American college world upon herself we do not doubt that she will make strenuous efforts to show up the new plan in its best aspect...
...article should be read by all who have any desire to express themselves on the History of the Knights of Labor. Mr. Wright should be congratulated in producing something that is of worth to the student, when so much nowadays is apt to contain no data, only reflections. In showing how sincere and earnest the Knights are, an attitude of ardor and benevolence is created by Mr. Wright, but the details of the strike on the Missouri Pacific last spring, as told by Professor Taussig, show only too clearly the difference between theoretical and practical labor movements. Professor Taussig...
...Waft of Summer" follows, which, though a good idea, fails to show itself on account of the words used. We cannot conceive of the wind "loitering" in "snow dust" that is "sculpturisque and fine...
...opening article by Josiah Royce is entitled "Tennyson and Pessimism." In this essay Professor Royce endeavors to show that Tennyson has neither changed nor fallen into the hopeless and pessimistic ideas of old age, as so many have lately said, in his "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," but that he has really come to a more perfect and real understanding of the life he has had to lead. In the Locksley Hall," there was the life and aspirations of a young and romantic poet disregarding the trials of daily life and looking forward into the future, made bright...