Word: opium
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Century caters to a wide variety of tastes, and its table of contents reveals several names new to magazine readers. To the average college man, perhaps the most interesting article is "The Wordsworths and De Quincey," a paper of literary biography containing unpublished letters of the poet and the opium-eater: one of Wordsworth's to the young De Quincey is particularly worthy of attention as containing excellent advice to youth, advice which he gives in simplicity and tender apprehension, as one lover of nature and virtue speaking to another, advice which is applicable quite as much...
...treatment of women; Senate Report, 1876-'77, III. 3. Practice of gambling. 4. Degraded religion; Forum, VI, 201. 5. Utter disregard for oaths. 6. Criminality; T. J. Vivian in Scribner XII, 862. b. Socially. 1. Unhealthy Report, 1886. 2. Impossibility of amalgamation; Overl. Mo. VII, 429. 3. Contamination through opium smoking, leprosy, small pox; Harper's Mag. 42, 139. 4. Dangers to American youth of both sexes; Overal. VIII, 374. c. Politically. 1. Inability and unwillingness to become citizens; Senate Report 76-77, III. 2. Refusal to obey our laws; Nation, vol. 34, p. 337. 3. Secret system of slavery...