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...Boston, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The special topic for discussion will be "New France: Cartier and Champlain," and the lecturer will illustrate his talk with stereopticon views. All of these lectures are delivered in French and are open to the public. The last of the series, on "Louisbourg and Quebec: Montcalm," will be given on next Saturday afternoon in Huntington Hall...
February 12.--Louisbourg and Quebec: Montcalm...
...late William Douglas O'Connor, which has the place of honor in the Atlantic for April. It is a story of old London, and its ancient life is brought vividly before us by the ready imagination of the author. Francis Parkman's second paper on "The Capture of Louisbourg by the New England Militia" is marked by the still and care which Mr. Parkman devotes to everything he writes, and Mr. Stockton's "House of Martha" continues for three more chapters in its usual vivacious fashion...
...Speaker as Premier." It is a timely consideration of a question which has been much before the public of late. Mr. Lowell continues his articles on travel in Japan. Perhaps the most valuable contribution to the number is Francis Parkman's first paper on the "Capture of Louisbourg by the New England Militia," an historical study of much importance,-with an incidental sketch of the Wentworth House, at New Castle, Maine, which is very charming. Miss Agnes Repplier, in an amusing and thoughtful paper, called "Pleasure: A Heresy," appeals not for more cultivation in life, but for a recognized habit...