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...said: In that period between the dynastic conquest and popular revolt in Germany, the lives of both Goethe and Schiller are principally laid, the one a patrician and of high rank, the other a plebian of poor parents. Goethe was born at Frankfort on the Main, August 28, 1749. His father was not very rich and had a meagre education which he gained mostly from travel; his mother was quite different, for she was a woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years...
...course of public lectures have been arranged by the New York Academy of Sciences, to be held on Monday evenings at various intervals in one of the lecture rooms at Columbia college. The subjects and speakers will be as follows...
...Chandos Classics" published at 75 cents each are sold at 50 cents. The "Poems and Essays" of Charles Lamb, one of the "Classics" is recommended in English...
Some very scarce old books are offered for sale-mostly classics printed over one hundred years...
...investigation Professor Shaler has found that many laboring men and women exceed two hundred thousand hours of hard work in a life-time while the average time of life spent by our most laborious literary men has not exceeded thirty thousand hours or about one sixth that of the laboring man with only as much brain as may guide his movements. Inasmuch, therefore, as intellectual labor his been found more wearying than that required of the ordinary man, the conclusion has been drawn that not more than nine months of the year should be devoted to school work...