Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Preface to "Fair Harvard" the author states, that when he showed his production to a friend, before its publication, and asked his advice, the advice was to this effect: to do one of two things, either burn the book or throw it into the North River. If some kind friend had overlooked "Student Life at Harvard," the advanced sheets of which are before us, and induced the author to adopt a course similar to one of these, the world would have been no great loser. We understand fully that to paint life here in such a way that everybody will...
...CURTIS'S journal is eminently what it pretends to be, - a simple account of what a man just from college noticed and experienced in a rapid tour around the world. The book is naturally valuable only to those who have never travelled; for the author kept steadily in the beaten track of tourists, and describes more his own impressions of what he saw, than the places and objects themselves. It makes, however, an interesting volume, written generally in a lively and entertaining style. The fault in the style seems to us the constant use of the present tense, which...
...journey, of which this book is the journal, lasted from the first of July, 1875, to the first of June, 1876. The author started from Boston, crossed to San Francisco, thence to Japan, China, India, up the Red Sea to Cairo, from Alexandria to Italy, through France to England, and thence home. With praiseworthy judgment he devotes most of the volume to the countries less known, and but fifteen pages to Europe and its oft-described localities. We are surprised that any one could have passed so close to the shores of Greece without setting his foot upon the land...
Whoever takes up the book will read it with interest, and by those who are personally acquainted with the author it will be welcomed with joy. The manner in which the work is published is admirable: the typography, binding, etc., have been done with taste as well as skill. As a whole, the work calls only for compliments...
...seen from the advance sheets indicate something very much like a repetition of "Fair Harvard," or, at least, more like that work than like "Tom Brown." Whenever an excellent story of the life of undergraduates here is written, it will be received with enthusiasm, and the reputation of its author will be made. The book that is to succeed must be written with some reference to what is said and done here, and it must at any rate carry with it the tone of the place. A few incidents founded on fact is not what we want. The forthcoming book...