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...Bolton, Lancashire, to Philadelphia in 1844. The boys went to the public schools. The talent of Edward, the eldest, developed first and it was he who first gave lessons to young Thomas after the latter had tried being a wood engraver's apprentice, cabinetmaker, bronzeworker, housepainter, weaver, and mender of looms. Before long, Ruskin saw a plate by Thomas Moran Jr, in a London exhibition and singled it out as the finest contribution from...
...Story begins with the bold, brusque strokes of a poster: the German quarter of New York about 1890; Anton Zwenge, a violin-mender; his mercurial wife; his manual-laboring friends. Frau Zwenge sells sheet music against her husband's will. With the years this business prospers, dislodges him from his workbench, drives him into a corner of her store. It is the same with his old friends. The cigarmaker's sons, the baker's, install machinery. Mass production, money, is the pulse of the city. There are immigrants by the thousand to buy, to push the older immigrants...
...conclude the story by a suicide. The same regret occurs to one in reading Mr. Carb's terrible but effective character study "Leri," though in this case the suicide is not only more clearly inevitable but better justified by the dramatic effect. Mr. F. E. Green in a "Mender of Dreams" has worked out a capital situation with good effect of suspense, and has made telling use of his setting. The buoyant and graceful "travel paper" of Arminius "Concerning Watering Places Mostly German," which alluringly conjures up the atmosphere of the Continental Spa, is refreshing after so much that...
George Gabriel of New Haven has left a will bequeathing $30,000 to his wife. At her death $15,000 of this sum will go to Yale College. Gabriel was an umbrella mender, and it was not supposed that he was worth any such amount of money...
...declaring journalism a profession in which the work is hard and disagreeable and the recompense is small, is the result of so many being in journalism who are wholly unfit for their positions. Some men, the writer thinks, can earn no more as a journalist than as a mender of roads. Thus ability and adaptability are as important here as in any of the other occupations. Able men are well paid; others do not earn good pay, and very naturally cry out against the profession. It might be added, too, that not a few, who say newspaper men are poorly...