Word: buttings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Rich and luxurious bindings have been prized from early times, but to attempt cheap imitations by cloth covers emblazoned with all the colors of the rainbow, as is done especially in some recent editions of the poets, is enough to blackball them against admittance into the libraries of persons of...
Buying up all the books of a kind within reach and then selling them at an advanced price, a trick with which many of us are unpleasantly familiar, is a very neat plan for increasing the profits at first, but, we venture to suggest, may not pay in the long...
But here let our indictment rest. Completeness might require us to make it longer, but brevity demands that we make haste to cut it short.
THE single-scull race, which did not take place on the day of the Fall races, was to come off Wednesday afternoon, but was again postponed, on account of the roughness of the water.
THE Italian Opera (Maretzek's troupe) has been for the past two weeks at the Boston Theatre, and the season has proved a failure both financially and musically. Lucca and Jamet are not able to create a success, when all the other artists and the entire support are so very...