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Gibson, who tells the stories to the author, is nothing short of a modern Baron Munchausen, and has nothing to be jealous of as far as the latter is concerned. In brief his tales are obviously nothing but mild lies, or flights of a distorted imagination which Gibson lets run riot whenever the author seems to be on hand. Everything is covered in the course of the nine stories for which Gibson is responsible, from an inebriated Kentucky Colonel's affair with a "lady of the ensemble" to an H. G. Wells tale of a machine in which one sees...
...efforts of all latter-day Adams have similarly met with failure. Ganquin departed for the woods and became infamous. "Joe" Knowles, of recent fame,--he who wrote a vivid description of tackling a passing deer that would have turned Munchausen a sickly green,--returned, mosquito bitten, to get his salary from the newspaper which financed him. Thoreau, who was Adanilo only in living close to nature, not venturing reproduction of the original, found himself in bitter and extended conflict with the town authorities of Concord for not paying his taxes. All in all, from start to finish, it appears that...
...Putnam's Sons have just issued "Baron Munchausen" in the Knicker-bocker Nuggets Series. The adventures are selected with judgment from the best English and German editions of the experiences of the noted traveler and sight-seer. The illustrations are good and profuse...
...mere preparation for the later practical work of life. In itself it is perhaps a long time; but in the added power and more elevated and comprehensive conceptions that it imparts, it is short. Our youth to-day are too much inclined to hurry. In the travels of Baron Munchausen, we read of a man who had to have cannon balls tied to his feet to prevent him from running too fast. Would it not be well to tie something of the same sort, say, four years of college life, and college training, and college education, to the legs...
...assume that the year before he graduates his tendency is wholly in this direction and the year after exactly opposite? We do not believe that, if falsehood be so particularly the characteristic of the student's nature, the simple act of graduation will change him from a Baron Munchausen to a "Truthful James." Neither do we think that the possibility of mistakes belong exclusively to the undergraduate, and that the graduate is entirely exempt from them. Probably a student may be biased in his statement. Do not the existing rules have a tendency to produce this effect? "Call...