Word: forli
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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The subject is boldly and originally treated. We recognize the right of literary ladies and gentlemen, founded on custom, to paint us very black indeed; but we are used to being saved at the eleventh hour, and demand it as a right. We cannot, therefore, commend this poem for its...
THE Packer Quarterly comes to us with its dashing blue covers and neatly printed pages, so enticing withal (we know it is edited by young ladies), that we fain would praise it. But our conscience scarcely permits us to do that, so we content ourselves with criticising what seem to...
THE Boston Journal of Chemistry for May has been received. Its columns, filled with varied information, not only interesting but also useful, are found serviceable to many. To the student of Chemistry it is specially valuable, containing many scientific articles and the latest discoveries.
As the year of work winds up, it is very natural to look back on what has been neglected, forgotten, or actually learnt. Many will regret that the last has been with them the least of the three, and feel that a mistake has been made in the eight months...
Some, perhaps, will deny the value of this thorough mastery of a few branches of knowledge instead of an acquaintance with all; in answer, two considerations might be brought up, - one the effect on character of becoming perfectly certain in some department of learning, feeling that in one thing at...