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...desk and reading his ponderous tome as quietly and attentively as he did three hundred years ago; and Melancthon, with his robes about him, is expounding some knotty point of doctrine to the grave monk beside him. The end of the sixteenth century finds the gay court at its gayest. There are splendid cars with Ceres, Bacchus, Venus, sitting on them, while vineyard laborers, with grape-laden baskets, dance about them. Then comes Sileuns, reeling from his ass and surrounded by a fantastic bevy of mymphs satyrs, demons, goblins and bats. We move forward to the 13th of June...
Paris, the most cosmopolitan city in Europe, is not only renowned as being the gayest, but is also pre-eminently the greatest centre of all the different arts and professions. The professors of these different branches of knowledge, when renowned, are known as savants, are generally members of the Academie de Paris, and amuse themselves by appearing two or three times a week at the College de France or Sorbonne, where they pour forth masses of diverse knowledge to a most strange and motley mixture of mankind - of all nationalities - ranging from fifteen to eighty years...
Deserted hall or gayest throng...
...gayest garb, but the old lady fears...
...life. In fact, if we may take Harvard men in New York as an example, their thoughts seem quite as much taken up with the alluring frivolities of the metropolis as with moralizing on the sterner problems of life which underlie them. During the holidays New York presents the gayest phase of American life. It is becoming more and more Parisian every day, both in appearance and manner of life. As a consequence, it is adapted, as no other city in the States is, to the requirements of a loafing public. By loafing we would not be understood to mean...