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...Master of the Magicians," by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Herbert D. Ward, is an historical romance dealing with the period of the captivity of the Jews at Babylon. It is exceedingly interesting. It is seldom that a period so remote that "fact and fable contend for the field" is successfully treated as the foundation of a novel, yet this book brings out the customs and conditions of Babylon at the time of Nebuchadnezzar and Daniel in a clear and entertaining manner. The story leaves a vivid impression of the almost superhuman hower of the Babylonian kings...
Oliver T. Morton concludes his marshalling together for reprobation of "Some Popular Objections to Civil Service Reform." A critical article touches "Some Recent Volumes of French Criticism," and there is an article by Kate Hilliard, whose name is nowadays seen so seldom, upon "The Easter Hare." The Contributor's Club is very pale and fibreless...
...conditions of the century in which he lived. A great interest had just been aroused in the "new chivalry," as it was called-a chivalry in which the fundamental idea was "Frauendiens," the devotion of a knight to some married woman-a devotion which need not be, and was seldom, returned by the noble "Frau." At first this "Frauendiens" was very attractive to Walther, and he wrote many exquisite poems in praise of this love, which seemed so noble and unselfish. But later Walther saw the folly and immorality of the "Frauendiens." He saw that the highest and truest love...
...Such a course logically pursued would result in returning great amounts of municipal, state and national taxes, for taxes are seldom collected more than 90 per cent. Cong Rec., vol. 20, pp. 79, 161. (b) It would be far more just to refund the direc tax under the confederation, the direc tax under the confederation, the direc tax of 1836, and the cotton tax of 1866, and many other unequal taxes. Cong Rec., vol. 20, pp. 194 et seq. Tax list in Am. Almanac...
...meeting of delegates for the scientiflc, language, school, state, and some of the athletic clubs, met last evening to talk over plans for securing rooms to be uee by the different clubs. The aim is to secure, as cheaply as possible, rooms for clubs which meet but seldom, and for this purpose it is intended to lease four or five rooms, which will be divided into a reading room and meeting rooms. A committee was appointed to ascertain the cost of such rooms, and what division of them could be made to accommodate the needs of the different societies. After...