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...special students, its chief value, we think, will appear if it is used as an introduction to the study of Shakspere. We are pleased to find in it none of the absurdities of the "inductive" school of criticism, which makes what should be a literary work seem like a text-book on graphic algebra or spherical geometry. The method here is absolutely sane and sound, the style is lucidity itself, fact is everywhere kept clear from inference, and there is no gush. There is not a silly sentence in the book. What reader of Dowden or Fleay can say that...
Young engineers that have just received an education are wont to make the mistake of thinking that their theoretical knowledge of engineering gives them an entire control of the subject. Yet they are obliged at last to realize that no text-book can be comprehensive enough to cover all the problems of practical engineering...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Newburyport Silver Mines, Mr. H. L. Newman; Fossils of the Winthrop Drift, Mr. R. E. Dodge; Geikie's Text-book, 3d edition, Mr. J. B. Woodworth; The Iron Ores of the Lake Superior Region, Mr. J. R. Finlay. Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Newburyport Silver Mines, Mr. H. L. Newman; Fossils of the Winthrop Drift, Mr. R. E. Dodge; Geikie's Text-book, 3d edition, Mr. J. B. Woodworth; The Iron Ores of the Lake Superior Region, Mr. J. R. Finlay. Geological Laboratory...
...again in 1880, Dr. Porter supervised the revision of Webster's Dictionary. He was the author of the celebrated book on "The Human Intellect," published in 1868 which has become an accepted text-book in many American colleges. He also wrote a large number of metaphysical works...