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...Jefferson" physical laboratory on Holmes field is to be surrounded with a trench filled with stones to deaden street jars and secure accuracy in experiments. Over the building will rise a double-walled tower intended for experiments with long pendulums and for investigations of the atmosphere...
...edition of the "Theaetetus" of Plato, which first appeared in 1861, will contain more than one hundred pages of new matter, and is expected to appear early in February. Prof. Campbell has also just completed an English translation of Sophocles, which will shortly be published by Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., and to which he has prefixed a long prefatory note...
...CONVERSATION: Its Faults and its Graces. Compiled by Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, D. D., LL. D." This little "Handbook of Conversation," by Dr. Peabody, comprises in four parts his "Address to Young Ladies," "Francis Trench on Conversation," "A Word to the Wise," and "Mistakes and Improprieties of Conversation and Writing Corrected." The address is a clear and positive exposition of the general laws and rules that should govern conversation, and though originally written for and delivered before young ladies, the principles set forth are applicable alike to all persons. The doctor's wide experience of life and society makes...
...some way connected with the government, while almost seventy have some distinction either of rank or in the government, in the Universities or the Church. Among the officers at Cambridge have been Macaulay, Earl Grey, Chief Justice Cockburn, Bulwer Lytton, and Archbishop Trench; at Oxford, Earl Stanhope, Gladstone, the Earl of Elgin, the Duke of Newcastle, Robert Lowe, the Earl of Dufferin; there may be other names which I have passed over in ignorance...