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There is no harm in not reading very many books. A great many, as Lord Bacon said, may be read by deputy. And the valuable deputy for French is St. Beuve, the purest critic who ever wrote...
...making for a number of public meetings, at which addresses are to be made in German by wellknown men. Every movement of this character tending to bring into greater prominence as objects of study, literatures foreign to our own, but containing much that is of the loftiest and purest character must be commended. We shall congratulate the Deutscher Verein for having done useful work, if its plans are successfully carried...
...Ingoldsby and His Legends" is an appreciative study of the writer of that remarkable book of tales. The writer points out with effect the main characteristics of Barham's poetry and of the general attitude of mind portrayed in it. These "legends" abound with some of the purest fun in the English language and it is extraordinary that they are comparatively so little known...
...Harvard Monthly appeared yesterday, and is full of interesting and well-presented matter. The only exception that may well be taken to the selection of the articles is that, with two exceptions, they are all poetry, or else prose about poetry. Even granting that poetry is the "purest distillation of human thought," the reader of a magazine like the monthly is surprised, and perhaps a little disappointed, at finding it an anthology pure and simple. It might have been well to keep some of the verse for the adornment of the next number. Mr. Francis Ellingwood Abbot contributes the leading...
...drawbacks are no more, and the helps no less in this age than in any other; the grace of God has never been kinder and stronger than it is now. It is a good time to live, to have noblest and purest ideals, to follow Jesus Christ, the leader of this age and all ages. "Now is the accepted time, and behold, now is the day of salvation...