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Dates: during 1880-1889
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II. Our present policy is "vicious, inequitable and unjust" in that while purporting to protect American shipping it really ensures to foreigners a monopoly of our foreign carrying trade, and protects them in the enjoyment of it to our own detriment: Report of Secretary of Treasury, 1887, xliv.; Kelley, "Question...
Colonel T. W. Higginson, in his lecture last evening in Sever 11, said that the number of men actually engaged in literature as a profession in the United States was small, and, even with the addition of the journalists, amounted to only thirteen thousand. This is not remarkable, as the...
The Bicycle Club has already begun to discuss plans for the coming spring. Interest in the club has been kept up during the winter by the monthly "smokers" which have been very well attended. There are now about fifty members, including associate members who do not own wheels. The officers...
At a later period Shakspere was drawn away from the beautiful boy by a new passion which roused the baser part of his nature. Conscious of his own degradation, he realized that, to attain a true immortality, life must be identified with conditions superior to mortality. Of the various kinds...
Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, London, will sell to-day a transcript of Burn's poems, in his own handwriting, on eighty folio pages. This manuscript varies in many instances from the printed edition and other known transcripts.