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...When we got to the race track I noticed a big crowd of people coming along. . . . There were stragglers at first, then thicker and thicker was the crowd of men and boys. Some were dressed in rags, some in decent white clothing, some in native Abyssinian dress with blackpeaked caps, some in costly apparel and a few in European clothes. Many were carrying rifles. Some were prisoners in chains...
...Cosmopolitan Book Corporation has republished the essay, in book form. Now it is a compact little volume in large type, hardly any thicker than The Saturday Evening Post, about one-quarter the latter's size and retailing at just 15 times the latter's price. The book omits the two cartoons which accompanied the essay originally and lent point to its remarks about a quiet, hard-working, soft-spoken, pestered...
...meeting was called for July 19 and 20 at Wesley an Chapel (Methodist) in Seneca Falls. It was the first meeting of its kind. In those days women faced many disadvantages. Their husbands could beat them provided it was with a stick "no thicker than a man's thumb." Husbands had the sole custody of children. Except among the Quakers, women did not engage in any public activities. (For an excellent brief treatment of the situation and developments at this time, see The Nation, July...
...fill us with desire to handle the scared relics. Those were the days when nobody roomed on the Gold Coast; those were the times when Richard Walach stopped at Mr. Holmes' and Josiah Mood lodges at Mrs. Quibbs'. Why is it that Increase Mather's Bible is two inches thicker than any other extant Bible? Perhaps you already know that Increase Mather's ghost rapped a Freshman soundly on the knuckles for accidentally pulling out a musical comedy program with his handkerchief while bending over the pious manuscripts...
This volume is thicker--and we realize it with a pang--than the preceding one. It concerns the men who died within the year after the United States entered the war. Again there is no strict holding to prescribed limits, which is admirable. Every story is living and filled with sympathy in treatment and selection. Whether, as in the case of that of Every Jansen Wendell the biography is mainly in the words of a classmate, or as in that of Harmon Bushnell Craig told in his own writings, or as with Wainwright Merrill worded by Mr. Howe himself...