Word: french
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening, in Boylston Hall, Mr. Jewett delivered a lecture on Beirut, the port of Syria. The harbor of Beirut is shallow and passengers from the different lines of steamers-Russian, Turkish, English, French or Austrian are landed by means of small boats manned by natives which swarm around a newly-arrived steamer. On landing, a customs official confronts you who is easily disposed of; the size of the bribe is proportionate to the dignity of the officer. All Turkish officials have their price. A lack of moral sentiment and respect for their position is a characteristic of the Turkish...
...Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods, by the late E. A. Sophocles. This is a volume of over twelve hundred pages. Professor J. B. Greenough has edited a volume of the Satires and Epistles of Horace; and Professor Bocher has had a number of unsigned reviews upon French and Russian literature in the Nation...
...acknowledged fact that J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard street, has the finest line of English Cheviot and French Flannel for shirts and pajamas ever imported...
CONSTANTLY on hand all the latest style E. and W. Collars and Cuffs, Full Dress Shirts, and everything requisite for evening dress. All kinds of Bath Wraps, English Cheviot and French Flannel Shirts and Pajamas, etc., at J. F. Noera's, 436 Harvard street...
...FRENCH FLANNEL and English Cheviot Shirts, elegant patterns, at James W. Brine's, 10 and 11 Harvard...