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Very different is Edward Richard's tale of the Franco-Prussian War, a straight-forward, vigorous story, with a refreshing roughness about it. "Pursuit," by W. Stevens '01, and "A Friend's Privileges," by Lewis D. Humphrey '01, are of the daily theme type. The most interesting contribution to the number is a short and "chatty" tale, "My Uncle, the Ghost," by A. H. Gilbert '01. It contains a touch of wit, which is rarely found in the Advocate's stories...
...first attempt, but as a picture of modern French society it is extremely interesting. An intensely Puritanical New England girl, left a rich widow, marries a French nobleman, chiefly for his title and later discovers that he is more or less of a blackguard. Some incidents of the Franco-Prussian war are woven into the plot in an interesting way, although there is no actual fighting. The characters are not as clearly drawn as some in her earlier works, being rather conventional, but the plot is carefully constructed, although the ending is rather unsatisfactory and suggests the "Prisoner of Zenda...
Another blow to bimetallism was the action of Germany in 1873 when, as a result of the Franco-Prussian war, the united German states demonetized silver...
Professor Barttett gave a very interesting talk in German 1a yesterday on the Franco-Prussian...
Yesterday afternoon, Professor Cohn gave as a closing lecture in French 11 an informal account of a portion of his experiences during the Franco-Prussian war, 1870, when, as a member of the Garde Mobile he assisted in the defence of Paris. In the early part of the war, under the government of Napoleon III, all military operations were marked by an incredible amount of carelessness and ignorance among those in authority. Army officers were appointed who knew nothing of military operations, and were far surpassed in knowledge, capacity, and even intelligence by many of the privates; the movement...