Word: reader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 article on "The Future of Philosophy...
...highest praise-and this is not exaggerated-which one can bestow on these translations, is the desire which grows in the reader of seeing all of Catullus works rendered so well. This essay and its precursor in a number of last year, are a worthy addition to the small stock of literature that is growing up around Rome's truest lyric poet...
...permit us to call it a very promising effort. There is not much to be said for "Anna Polanova" a story placed in the high life of St. Petersburg. There are enough larynxruffling gutterals in the name of the various "vitches" and "ovnas" to make a careless reader believe that it is a powerful Russian story, but a closer perusal will show that things are not always what they seem. It takes more than a few well-compounded consonants to make a good story Russian Turkish or Chinese. Some minor verses and book notices make up the rest...
...MONDAY.Semitic Seminary. Reader: Mr. J. R. Jewett. Subject: Beyrut as an Archxological Centre. 7 Lowell street...
...MONDAY.Semitic Seminary. Reader: Prof. Lyon. Subject: The Literature on Semitic Art and Archaeology. 7 Lowell street...