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Near the end of the number is a symposium on the future of the New England country, to which ex-Governor Long, George B. Loring, Rev. S. W. Dike and Rev George A. Jackson contribute. Their words are suggestive...
...Burton Harrison, whose most recent title to fame is the authorship of "The Anglomaniacs" attempts to write an essay in a novelist's style with unfortunate results. Her subject is "Maidens and Matrons in American Society." The maidens receive further attention in a symposium "Shall our Daughters have Dowries?" by C. S. Messinger, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Amelin E. Barr, Mrs. Beecher, Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Rollins...
...North American Review, in his effort to be non-partisan, evidently believes in Bacon's advice concerning physicians: "Take one of a middle temper; or, if it may not be found in one man, combine two of either sort." Three Democratic and three Republican Congressmen therefore contribute to the symposium on "What Congress Has Done." The Republicans, McKinley, Lodge and Dalzell, are unanimous in saying that the last session has done wonders; the Democrats are as unanimous in deciding that Congress has done a great many things it ought not to have done and left undone a great many things...
...Americans Hate England?" is a symposium of several well known men, of whom Col. Higginson and Andrew Carnegie are to the fore. The consensus of opinion is that America does not hate England. The one or two who take the ground that it does, only repeat the reasons for so doing so thoroughly disposed of by Goldwin Smith...
...this betrays a rank and horrible system of persecution and injustice. Imagine the hungry students, being fed on elegant cold slabs of colorless meat, while the poor waiters languish below on the parboiled trimmings! And think, too of the Caucasion slaves of the autocrat of the breakfast table having symposiums at ten or thereabouts! This is monstrous! How can we, who are deprived of the innocently frothing beer, sit quietly in our seats, while the steward's satellites are revelling in a symposium beneath our very feet? We have in vain tried to get the directors to change...