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...Melos in April, 1820. A French officer happened to be present at its discovery by a peasant gathering stones, and he at once took steps to secure it for his government. After a long delay it was shipped to France where it has had many adventures, especially during the Commune, and now stands in the Louvre...
Professor de Sumichrast addressed the Cercle Francais at the Colonial Club last night on "La Commune de Paris, 1871." The address was followed by a reading from the "Pater" of Francois Coppee...
Under the Red Flag is the title of Mr. Edward King's latest story. Henry T. Coates, the publisher, has given the book an attractive dressing and it will be popular. It is an account of the adventures of three American boys during the Paris Commune...
...known, says the proverb, by the company he keeps, and not only so, but made by it. Milton makes his fallen angels grow small to enter the infernal council room, but the soul, which God meant to be the spacious chamber where high thoughts and generous aspirations might commune together, shrinks and narrows itself to the measure of the meaner company that is wont to gather there, hatching conspiracies against our better selves. One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books...
Hezekiah Butterworth has a story entitled "An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving" and the last piece of writing prepared by James Russell Lowell for publication is published. It is an uncompleted essay on Francis Parkman. Archibald Forbes contributes his second article on "What I Saw of the Paris Commune." There is an interesting study of "Road-Coaching up to Date" with pictures illustrating the trip from Paris to Trouville...