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Another article of interest in the May Atlantic is "The Reconstruction Period: the Ku Klux movement," by William Garrott Brown 91. The history of the whole period of the Reconstruction of the Southern States after the Civil War is, especially in the North, comparatively little known. The "Ku Klux Klan...
The extensive repertoire of Labiche is almost all one great satire on "bourgeoisie" life in France. His works have for several generations furnished a healthy hilarity for the French theatre goer. In creating gaiety and laughter for this audience, Labiche followed Rabelais more than Moliere, who was apt to censure...
"Practical Agitation" (Scribner's) by John Jay Chapman '84 is a collection of seven critical essays dealing with some of the provinces of modern life. "Election and Election Time," "The Masses," "Literature and Journalism," and "Principles" are some of the chief themes. The essays are thoughtful, but at the same...
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., have recently published a book by Colonel T. W. Higginson '41, entitled "Contemporaries." The volume is a valuable series of sketches, most of which have been previously published in magazines, of famous men and women contemporary with Colonel Higginson. Among the best known names are those of...
Half the troubles of mankind come from an ignorance which consists less in not knowing things, than in wilfully ignoring known things. Certain great political and social plagues exist for which men of thought should be an antidote. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which...