Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...received very favorable notice from the critics and classical scholars both of this country and of Great Britain. These scholars have especially commended the power displayed in bringing Plato's meaning in plain, but remarkably pure English, a point in which they award the palm of excellence to this author, who is now known to be a Boston lady of high position, no less eminent for her generous support of works of practical benevolence, than for her classical scholarship. The present writer does not hesitate to pronounce the translation of the Georgias in the present volume to be fully equal...
...Shall Avarice Rule?" asks "a friend of humanity" in the seventy page pamphlet before us. The anonymous author seems to be much of a pessimist, a man, or woman, struggling either to incite the citizens of the United States to dissatisfaction, or one interested for the good of the Country, but blinded to certain facts in it. In the preface he says that the "object of this pamphlet is to turn the thought of the earnest working men of our country to the social problem of the times." He then proceeds to turn them to it very forcibly...
...besides this our "friend of humanity" proposes to put all corporations under government control and cites many good authorities to support him in this and the taxation question. The "Problem" being solved he closes with the defiant remark that "if this be socialism, I am a socialist. . . ." Such books seldom do good, yet they often have their use. Let us hope this one may affect any mind that takes it up for good. But there is always a certain feeling of disapprobation accompanying anything of this sort when at the close one finds that the author does not wish...
...Dale," the author of "Guerndale," has in press a collection of his most successful short stories, a number of which have so considerably added to his reputation. The volume will be named "The Sentimental Calendar," a sketch being allotted to each of the twelve months of the year, with regard to the appropriateness of the tale. Several new stories will also be included in the book, which the Scribners are to bring out as a holiday volume. - Independent...
Theme IV. will be due on Tuesday, Dec. 7. It must be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 before 4 o'clock. Subject: A Summary of some important work of some good author...