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While other young men are eager to acquire a sufficient knowledge of trade to allow them to assume a business air and talk volubly of the rise and fall of stocks, the average collegiate is gloriously indifferent to it. Such topics awaken no interest in his breast. It makes no...
PROBABLY no one has ever attempted prose writing wherein he has endeavored to convey his ideas by metaphors, without feeling the force of Voltaire's complaint "En l'ecrivant meme l'idee m'echappe." And if this is true of prose writing, where words are not restricted, how much more...
That those who manage our State and national affairs are not altogether perfect, and that something is lacking in our political life, is evident, and so many a one, desiring to help in amending it, calls upon the class he considers the best, be it scholars, gentlemen, or women, to...
THE Italian Opera (Maretzek's troupe) has been for the past two weeks at the Boston Theatre, and the season has proved a failure both financially and musically. Lucca and Jamet are not able to create a success, when all the other artists and the entire support are so very...
It is impossible, without transgressing our limits, to do justice to the endless variety of good things afforded by our author. There is something noble, however, in Mr. Josselyn, which excites our regard for his "chivalry" (a word which he uses with affection and frequency). Although he proves incontestably that...