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WILL the gentleman who received the sealskin cap from the window of 25 Hollis during the fire please return to 40 Gray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

...estimate of Yale's worth for us to contest it. But as the full array of Yale's centennial display bursts once more upon our stunned imagination, we can but say, with poor old Tate Wilkinson, after his famous walk to the window...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

...hang upon your walls pictures that will suggest ideas; pictures at which you can look with pleasure for more than a single moment; pictures of which you will in time grow fond, instead of longing at the end of a couple of months to pitch them out of the window...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICTURES AND SO FORTH. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

...forms the greater part. A sort of romance is thrown about them, and yet few ever realize the humdrum life they are wont to lead. Way up in attics, in cramped and gloomy rooms, the grisette opens her eyes at early dawn to look out of the one small window on a forest of chimneys and a waste of roofs, or perhaps on a mass of sombre blocks and lonely warehouses. But her room to a grisette is like a port for a vessel; she leaves it, she comes back to it, but she lives away front it. Every hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRISETTE. | 12/10/1875 | See Source »

Still in the attic the same little looking-glass answers back the good-morning smile of the grisette, the same window is open for her last good-night to the blinking stars, and the same picture - a print of Washington that looks like a detected eavesdropper - stares out of its ghastly frame. But it is not the same thoughtless little grisette, although at first you might pardonably mistake her for our old friend. She has the same fresh face and piquant way, she measures out yard after yard of the identical shade of crimson as her predecessor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRISETTE. | 12/10/1875 | See Source »

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