Word: readers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard in the Sixties," by H. G. Palfrey, is interesting. The reader is surprised at all the great changes which thirty years have wrought. The Turk Fighter is a clever sketch. It describes the ingenius way the inhabitants of a certain Hungarian village have of treating their shrews. These two articles and the latter of the "Two Sketches" are the only things that are worth reading in the number. None of the other contents has the slightest excuse for publication, except that of filling space...
...reserved in the reading room, and which all the members of a course have to use, are disfigured throughout by underscorings and marginal lines, and even by marginal comments, which become in some cases little controversies between unknown critics. Aside from the distracting effect of these marks on the reader, causing him involuntarily to emphasize portions usually least important, the practice is morally wrong. No man has any right whatever to injure and deface property not his own. And no man would mark up a book borrowed from an individual if he expected ever to borrow another from the same...
Cambridge Sketches, by Cambridge authors, edited by Estelle M. H. Merrill, has recently been published under the auspices of the Cambridge Y. W. C. A. It is not a guide book, but attempts to take the reader into the life of Cambridge and make known to him something of the past and present of the city. The following sketches taken at random give one an idea of the scope of the work...
...Differing as novelists they also differed as thinkers. Tourgenev pictures evil wherever he sees it-among the peasants or their masters. He unveils humanity by putting the two social classes side by side. He is one of the most striking examples of the power of art, penetrating to the reader's heart by the power of simple beauty. He first gave the name of "nihilists" to those who acknowledged no authority in anything...
Macmillan and Co. have in press a volume of "Studies in Judaism," by Mr. S. Shechter, Reader in Rabbinic in the University of Cambridge, which deal in a scholarly manner with many somewhat obscure topics in connection with the Jewish faith...