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...Shakespere is a stunner. (I looked at the volumes; they were uncut, and Othello was standing on his head; I sympathetically put him on his feet) "And this set of Marryat's works looks very well on the shelves." (The books certainly did encumber enough space for Thackeray and Jane Austen's works and looked as if they at least had been read.) And so he went on. He had already "ragged" a sign, bearing the inscription "Harvard Laundry," which brilliant witticism he intended to hang over his mantel...
...subjects for the Second Junior Themes, Division A, are: "Mr. Thackeray gravely compromised his character, when he invited the people of the United States to laugh at his caricatures of the Hanoverian Kings of England"; and "Professor Hughes, it is said, does not intend to secure patent rights on the microphone, as he regards his researches and their results as belonging to the domain of discovery rather than invention...
...article in the Cornell Review attempts to draw a comparison between "Aurora Leigh" and "Pendennis." The title of the article is "Aurora Leigh as the Metrical and Feminine Complement to Thackeray's Pendennis." We are obliged to acknowledge that the writer of the piece has a more vivid imagination than we can pretend to. The comparison is ingenious, but the case is not made out. Both stories follow out the development of a principal character, as many other novels and poems do. Beyond this we fail to see any great similarity...
...Amherst Student is more interesting than usual. It contains an article upon "Thackeray and George Eliot," - a new departure from the eternal "Thackeray and Dickens" of past years, for which we cannot sufficiently thank it. It publishes a formal set of resolutions recently passed by the Sophomore class, to the effect that Freshmen shall be permitted to carry canes on and after March...
...girlhood, - for the females of this species are more numerous than the males, - they see the wide field of literature spread invitingly before them. Guided by the whim of the moment, as their humbler namesakes are, they float aimlessly among the rich flowers; alighting here on one of Thackeray's bright novels; pausing there a moment to sip the sweetness of Wordsworth's poems; attracted yonder by the flashing pages of Charles Reade. They seek only the pleasures of literature, and slight observation will convince us that they delight in these only when easily obtained. Where grow the more sober...