•SiR, — These Thoughts concerning Education, which now come abroad into the world, do of right belong to you, being written several years since for your sake, and are no other than what you have already by you in my letters. I have so little varied any thing, but only the order of what was sent you at different times, and on several occasions, that the reader will easily find, in the famili…
ENJOYING the enormous endowment that it did, the Occidental University could afford to do things on a grand scale. Accordingly, when it was decided to make the department of Natural History especially rich in examples of the wild life of the Orient, the authorities considered that the best way to accomplish this would be to send the head of that department to obtain personally what was sought. …
THIS is a collection of yams from real life : yarns told on that undefined borderland known as Bohemia ; in the bars of town and country inns, and around those obscure sections of British and cosmopolitan capitals collectively and rather vaguely termed " The Underworld." They are stories retailed by men and women who lounge about to pass their leisure hours, watching life go by ; tales of famou…
HAT husband of Anabella's had to come down with the measles or she never would have keyed me up to be a Machiavelli, or whoever it may be who is synonymous with craft and cruelty to lovers. Measles, indeed! On such trivial things as measles do the really great events of life turn! Still, nothing has turned yet, and I hope that nothing will. I know nature never intended me for a chaperon. …
The author has to acknowledge his deep obligations to the Rev. James Kennedy, B.D., of the Library of the New College, Edinburgh, whose value every student knows who ever passed through that Institution, and to whom the Free Church is under deep obligations. He has devoted his life to the cultivation of a high standard of learning among the young men, in urging them to graduate, and to his cour…
Tue Author of the following Letters, takes the liberty, with all proper deference, of laying before the public his idea of parochial history, which, he thinks, ought to consist of natural productions and occurrences as well as antiquities. He is also of opinion that if stationary men would pay some attention to the districts on which they reside, and would publish their thoughts respecting the …