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...writer of "Ce Qu 'On Dit Et La Verite" shows considerable imagination and writes in a lively, entertaining style, which would be none the worse for a little more polish and elegance. The dated-letter or journal-method of telling a story is a device which is beginning to pall on readers of modern fiction. It is too frequently a convenient loop-hole for writers who have not the talent, or else wish to avoid the trouble of describing the closer detail of the surroundings of the actions portrayed. We fear that the writer of this story has not quite...
...Henry Norman, an Englishman who graduated from Harvard eight or ten years ago, has arrived in New York from London. He is making a tour of the world in the interests of the Pall Mall Gazette, with which he is connected...
READING ROOM. Subscribers are urged to pay their subscriptions at once. The room needs funds. Files of the following papers will be sold to the highest bidder. Judge, Puck, Life, Burlington Hawkeye, Texas Siftings, Punch, Scientific American, Illustrated London News, Harper's Weekly, Pall Mall Budget, Youth's Companion, Nation, Boston Advertiser, Post, Transcript, N. Y. Times, Louisville Courier Journal, Columbia Spectator, Yale Courant, and others. Any student desiring files of any papers may communicate with the undersigned...
...baton, accompanied by assistants with craped staff and torches, and followed by two bass-drummers (students beating muffled drums); the elegist or chaplain, with his Oxford cap and black gown, and brows and cheeks crocked so as to appear as if wearing huge goggles; four spade-bearers; six pall bearers with a six foot coffin on their shoulders; and then the sophomore class in full ranks. They looked poverty-stricken; their hats, with the rims torn off or turned in, bore the figures '63 in front, that being the year of their class, their apparel such as is suited...
...rejoicing at its destruction, although everything was conducted with a great show of solemnity. The students composing the funeral procession began to assemble about eight o'clock in the evening of the day appointed, all wearing caps and gowns; the coffin containing the doomed book was borne by six pall-bearers, who were effectively, though perhaps somewhat inappropriately dressed in costumes of red flannel with tails attached. The procession marched from its rendezvous at some point in the city out to the college grounds to the solemn strains of the dead march. Torches were carried, red light, and other fire...