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...Mirror," last of a series of stories of Mme. Saumon's pension on Eliot street, is too obvious in plot and only near-English in style. The tone suggested by the first line, "Dulling their background like two pearls in a cabbage patch," is fortunately not maintained throughout. A sketch, Mr. Skinner's Indian tale "The Love of a Friend," is simple and good. Perhaps the Apache saying which heads it--"Any man can slay an enemy, but only an Apache is brave enough to kill a friend"--anticipates too much the conclusion...
...lecture tomorrow night Mr. Elder will give a brief description of the organization of, and procedure before, the Hague Court. He will then sketch the details of the fisheries controversy from its beginning, directly after the Revolutionary War, down to the present time; and will close with a discussion of the seven questions submitted last summer to the Hague Tribunal, explaining the significance of the court's decision on each of the counts...
...easiest thing in the world to sketch out in the closet a system of government; and it is one of the most difficult things in the world to make a government really function. In just the same way it is proverbially easy to preach morality, and still easier to applaud it when preached; but it is difficult to do the only thing that counts, which is to apply the morality in practice. For that reason when I speak of applied morality,--using morality in the largest sense, that is, for the efficient application of the principles, the carrying...
...will give a sketch of Mr. Agassiz's life from the time he entered Harvard to the present day, telling some of his experiences in College and in the Scientific School. Beginning with his connection with the Calumet and Hecla mining property, Major Higginson will trace how he developed it from an insolvent condition to the best copper mine in the world, and will describe the difficulties he faced and overcame in the process...
...scene of the sketch, which is in one act, is laid on a barren island in the South Atlantic. Robert Chilton, a rich stock broker, has been wrecked on its reefs while cruising in his yacht, the "Rover"; from all the ship's company, the only survivors were Barbara, Chilton's wife, whose father is a Gloucester fisherman, and Jabez, the boatswain. The action of the play is furnished by the struggle between the men for the possession of Barbara...