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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...poetry. The next article, "A Fellow Traveller," is the first of a number of short anecdotes. It has the recommendation of being interesting, but one feels a strong desire to assist the author on the matter of proper names and to suggest that there is something disagreeable to the reader at finding the hero in a town, beginning with an F and followed by a dash. Yet the anecdote is otherwise well told. "Phoebe Southerly" follows; being an account of the conversation of a skull, suspended from the ceiling by a cord, with a young man. The picture...
Another story follows entitled "Princess Capricia." As it is the third in this month's Advocote, it has the disadvantage of having had two similar pieces coming before it, and thus the reader perchance would have desired something other than a story. But "Princess Capricia" is brightly told, and by leaving the matter in hand a little in doubt keeps the interest up after reading. The author has hit upon a good idea there...
...account is a detailed one, confessedly containing little philosophy, but well stored with facts and annals which are interesting and valuable. We believe that the story of the foundation of the order, has never before been made public. The sketch is written with an enthusiasm which, leading the reader to a plane of idealism, appeals to the sympathetic nature, arousing it to a better appreciation of the ills of the "working men." The article should be read by all who have any desire to express themselves on the History of the Knights of Labor. Mr. Wright should be congratulated...
...pity, not scorn and loathing. He probably is some wretched, half-witted being, living in a very musty and unclean garret, tenanted by vermin, who scribbles to order, that he may keep his miserable anatomy alive. He would slander his own grandmother at five dollars a column. Therefore, gentle reader, though you may be inclined to revile him bitterly, - don't; he knows no better. "It's his conception of the part." and he means no offence...
...Professor Lanciani's regretted departure. Mr. Charles Waldstein, a young American scientist who has acquired an eminent name in science and letters, is spending a few days in Cambridge and will deliver a lecture in Sanders Theatre on Friday evening. Mr. Waldstein is director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Reader in the University of Cambridge, England, and has lately had the distinguished compliment paid him of being appointed permanent director of the American Archaeological School at Athens...