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...craze of the antiquary for old things was the excuse for a collection of French poets of before 1300 and similarly in the search for Roman law the jurists of the 16th century explored the codes of the middle ages...
...FLAG craze sweeping over the country is just at its height in New England. The greatest part of the flags come from G. W. Simmons and Co., Oak Hall, Boston, and any one who wants PARTICULARS about these goods should send for FLAG CIRCULAR. Memorial Day is close at hand...
...work and his theory have been the subject of sharp discussion in England, and since the production of "A Doll's House" in Boston last month, the interest here is scarcely less. Indeed there is some danger of an Ibsen cult equal to the recent Browning craze. But whatever may be thought of Ibsen's artistic principle, the power of his work is unquestioned, and "The Lady of the Sea" is at present of special interest because in it Ibsen suggests answers to the problems proposed by him in "A Doll's House...
...Canada" by E. G. Scott gives the reader an excellent idea of the weakness of the French colony in Canada, and of the impossibility of its existence after the French "bayonets" had been withdrawn. "The First Mayor" by Octave Thanet, is an interesting story of the paper-money craze. "Some Romances of the Revolution" by Edward T. Hayward is an excellent study of William Gilmore Simmes' six novels on the revolutionary period. The other articles of the number are up to the usual high standard of the Monthly, the one entitled "Materials for Landscape Art in America" being perhaps...
...these would-be founders could only recognize what a true university is, and devote their money to the few such that we have in America, it would be much more useful in aiding the higher education of Americans than is the present craze of founding universities. The "Presto, change!" of a millionaire cannot turn his money-bags into a university any more than he can manufacture a Rueben's by daubing $10,000 worth of paint upon a canvas. A true university ought to be the intellectual centre of a country, a place not only where a student can study...