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...Swan's Secret" is an interesting tale of the downward career of an Italian noble in the guise of a revolutionist. There is a pathetic current running through it, and the individuality of the writer is at times strongly marked. The idea of introducing the swans at the end of the story is a very happy...
...John Harvard Mystery" is a blood-curdling tale and proves conclusively who it was that committed the vandal act on the John Harvard statue in 1884. It is only another example of the immense power of imagination which the writer possesses. Some book notices and items make up the rest of the paper...
...Goldsmith and the Madrigal Boy" is a very pretty tale worked up from the old story in a very powerful way; the vividness of the picture and the gracefulness of the narrative are conspicuous characteristics, rendering it a story which is worthy of being widely read. It is undoubtedly the best article of its kind which has appeared for some time...
...universities, such as the Hon. Charles E. Fitch, editor of the Rochester Democratic, is, should have to apply for the place of clerk to the State Senate in order to secure "a vacation from the wearing duties of his present [editorial] position.' Yet such is the tale told us by his friend the Ogdenburg Daily Journal. In the first place, it is rather odd that service in the Senate clerkship should be to all intents and purposes a vacation, for it draws a salary, and professors of journalism ought not to take a salary for taking a vacation...
...native tongue. "Eringo-bragh" and a song in which every other line terminated in a lengthy, nasal, trumpeting sound, were the favorites, and called forth immense applause and many encores. John then told some of his college experiences, among which was the great and only theatre-party tale, in which John once figured with a crowd of "shtudents." To crown the glory which his little variety then procured for him, he pulled out of a hidden recess, a carefully tied up parcel, which he unrolled very gingerly, and at length displayed to the admiring audience a large crimson rosette with...