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Dates: during 1873-1873
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FOR a single writer to traverse the whole range of English literature without a stumble would be almost impossible. Mr. Taine, although on the whole wonderfully apt to be right, is acknowledged to have made some mistakes; and one of these mistakes is, I think, his estimation of Thackeray. It...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAINES THACKERAY. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

NOTHING can be learned from books on art which will take the place of the education given by daily access to real works of art. For this reason, all of us who are interested in art study - and these are not a few - have reason to rejoice on seeing the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY HELIOTYPES. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

As the next in excellence of reproduction, the portrait from Van Dyck's Iconographia must be mentioned. It is wonderful that such success has been attained with an etching. Here we have what Van Dyck alone can give us, - the real nobleman. Durer's portrait of his old patron, Pirkheimer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY HELIOTYPES. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

Mr. Higginson says that this scholarship will produce emulation between the high scholars or the colleges similar to that between the boat-crews at the Regatta; the Nation thinks this emulation would be a feature disastrous to the good effects of the system, and seems to entertain a very poor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NATION, AND INTERCOLLEGIATE SCHOLARSHIPS. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

Doubtless an experienced critic in examining our attempts at drollery would say at once that they were strained, unnatural, from the fact that clearness of style, consistency of thought, in short, all the requisites of finished work, had been sacrificed to the one idea of saying something funny.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POPULAR WRITER. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

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