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...archaeology; C. H. Williams, M. D., opthalmology for three years; G. M. Richardson, Ph. D., Latin; Edward Cummings, A. M., English; J. E. Wolff, petrography; W. P. Cook, D. M. D., operative dentistry; G. M. Garland, clinical medicine; J. W. Warren, physiology; J. R. Jewett, A. B., Semetic languages; Kenelm Winslow, B. A. S., M. D. V., zoology; Herbert L. Burnell, demonstrator of bandaging and apparatus...
...Kenelm Chillingly. His Adventures and Opinions. By E. L. BULWER (LORD LYTTON), author of "Pelham," "Last of the Barons," "The Caxtons." Harper & Brothers. 1873. New York...
...form or another, - to be pervaded throughout, in short, by the particular weakness inherent in the author, which has been all along suppressed by whole-some criticism, or the fear of it, only to break out when the strength of his reputation renders him superior to the reviewers. But Kenelm Chillingly shows neither of these faults. It has all the vigor and novelty of a first attempt, and all the gracefulness and ease which only come after the writing of many books. In its hero Bulwer seems to be thoroughly at home, taking as much delight...
Almost any great creation of fiction can be made out a type of something or other. Kenelm Chillingly would appear to be the type of culture; though, in adding this to an already great array, we are shamefully conscious of taking our very little share in that too hot pursuit of types which is said to be a failing of the present age. Kenelm Chillingly is distinguished from other men by his love of independence, not an independence of order and proper restraint, but an independence of cant and conventionality; by his love for learning and contempt for pedantry...
...suffers or the crime she commits, - to all such persons the book will prove a tedious one; but those who enjoy philosophizing of the pleasantest and lightest sort, illumined at every step by some thought as striking and original as true, will find all this and much more, in Kenelm Chillingly...