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...scene of this story is "Drumtochty" and many of the characters in the "Bonnie Brier Bush" and "Days of Old Lang Svne" reappear in its pages. The author tells the story of the strong and simple love of Carmichael, a Covenanting Minister, and Kate Carnegie, a girl of Jacobite descent, and the stress between their mutual love on the one side, and their political and religious differences on the other, furnishes material for a story full of delightful situations in which the author moves the reader's sympathies and appeals to his sense of humor. Those, however, who came...
...show the character of the work. The book he says, "is exactly what its title represents it to be, some college verse - and nothing more." He hopes "that it may find a corner in the domain of lighter verse, that it may be a congenial complement to the old brier root during some idle hour of undergraduate life, and that it may awaken in those who have left their Alma Mater, the sleeping memories of that happy, careless past, - memories which neither time nor adversity nor absence can efface...
...BROWN, Captain.LOST.- Yesterday between Jarvis field and Weld Hall, a brier-wood pipe with bone mouth piece. Finder please leave at Leauitt and Peirce...
LOST. A long stemmed brier wood pipe on either Holmes or Jarvis Field. The finder is requested to send the same to 48 Holyoke House...
...think, from some coal-office in the distant Port. He was the most affable dun that ever made out a bill. He did not seem to care so much for his money as for the pleasure of my society. I have known him come into my room, fill his brier-wood pipe from my jar of green seal, seat himself comfortably before the fire of his own coal, and enter into lively conversation with me on politics, literature, or art. His pipe out, he would take his departure with never a word in regard to his "memorandum." When...