Word: canned
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Illustrations are a valuable embellishment in many kinds of books, and in scientific works are an absolute necessity. But to illustrate a novel is in bad taste. In fiction, where the appeal is mainly to the imagination of the reader, he ought to be allowed to figure the characters and...
AGAIN we can enjoy the sweet sleep which hard work and virtue give to youth, undisturbed by fears of fire or theft, - another night-watchman has been appointed!
General Leggett's statement, in the Washington Star, that he is convinced that his son's death was an accident for which no one can be blamed has since appeared.
The privileges of the Reading-Room are almost invaluable, and can only be properly appreciated by those of us who experienced the want of them; they are so important that it would be worth while to retain them at almost any inconvenience, even at that of refusing admission to all...
And a word as to the way in which the room is conducted. We think we can appreciate to some extent what the tribulations of a curator must be; but it really seems as if a little more system might be shown with the newspapers and magazines; and it certainly...