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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Money made. See advertisement of stocks bought and sold in next colunm...
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...symphony showed the vast improvement the orchestra has made since last year. The wind and wood instruments are decidedly better, especially the flute and oboe. In the last two movements the attack of the violins was wonderful and it is hard to see how Mr. Gericke could have bettered it had he been leading himself...
...older chemistry has yielded to the 'new chemistry,' and because natural history has undergone a fundamental revolution," we have no satisfactory ground for inferring, as Mr. Abbot does, that philosophy, "the organic unity of all human knowledge," is destined to undergo a like reform. In his desire to see philosophy put on a modern scientific basis, and in his anxiety to crush out agnosticism, Mr. Abbot seems to be perfectly ready to sacrifice the whole field of pure metaphysics. The essay would have been much more valuable if the writer had stopped to support such statements as that the "Kantian...
...Some Studies in Catullus." In many instances they surpass for perfection of rendering and beauty of English, the translations of Leigh Hunt and a host of other poets, not to speak of the clumsy productions of a pedantic Munroe. It gives an admirer of Catullus intense pleasure to see his spirit caught so thoroughly and rendered so well in our mother-tongue...