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...Bassano sale in Paris the following were among the prices realized : Courbet's "L'Hiver," 5,380f.; Decamp's "Un Cheuil," 5,500f; Diaz's "Une Clairiere," 8,190f.; Van Goyen's "La Meuse a Dordrecht," 4,250f; and "L'Hiver en Hollande," 6,070f.; and Guardi's "Fete a Venise," 6,000f...
...credit of the committee of reception that they declined the offer of the city government. A procession of graduates and undergraduates dragged the triumphal car to Delmonico's, where a fete - that is what they call it in New York - completed the celebration of the event...
DURING the last two weeks the Class-Day question has been carefully, and for the most part calmly, debated. The possibility, and even the advisability, of continuing the old class organization and fete day has been seriously questioned. Such radical differences of opinion have been expressed that now the expectation of a peaceful reconciliation exists only in breasts naturally buoyant with hope. The situation, as we understand it, is this: a large number of those who made up the coalition party in the class meeting, which caused the whole trouble, see now that they misjudged those whom they regarded...
...weakness rather than in that of his strength; of Mivers, and his Londoner, so like in principle to a periodical nearer home. The incidents with which the book abounds are all very interesting, though many of them are improbable. Even want of space cannot prevent our referring to the fete-day speech of the hero; when he wished his father's tenants a speedy death, as the greatest good which could happen to them. One can almost see the honest British yeomen, wiping the beer from their big mouths, and gazing in stupid wonder at the young philosopher who assured...