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... Is it worth while to buy the Encyclopaedia Britannica When a man asks himself whether it is worth while to buy a book, the burden of proof day to day. But, on the whole, the world's doings yield sound food for thought, and every 1 rests upon the book, and not upon the purchaser. I man who reads his newspaper, and thinks about what he reads in it, is using his mind to good ine vis inertias, the ...
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... WAYSIDE IRONY [-Oraioj by Tom Browuc. I know a man who reads every word of Puffer's speeches. Great Scotf Who is the fool Puffer ...
... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FROCKS AND FURBELOWS. Luggage-laden omnibuses, portmanteau- crammed cabs, and the nimble hansom with the easily moved chattels of the gay bachelor, are the chiefest objects of outside interest that strike the stranger at this present moment of the fizzled-out Season in town. The sales, as usual, have had a good inning'!, and the eternal feminine has luxuriated in exchanging ...
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... THE BATTLE OP THE NILE, 1798.-- PAINTED BY MR. DAVIDSON. Nelson was severely wounded in tlio head, and, to the astonishment of everyone, he appeared 011 the quarter-deck and gave orders that boats should be sent to the relief of the enemy when If Orient caught Are and blew up with a tremendous explosion. The victory, which was most complete, said Nelson, was not a name strong enough for such a ...
... HORS D'CEUYRES. The London Season of 1899 is over, and it has served to raise the question-- annually asked of themselves by thinking men-- whether there is such a thing as a London Season. The question must have been asked with unusual emphasis this year during the recent wave of heat. London, while the thermometer is at 86 degrees in the shade, is a very fine centre-- to get away from. As ...
... THE SEDAN-CHAIR. ...
... . Never was there so good an opportunity of studying the greatest of Dutchmen. To go to-day to Burlington House is to live in Holland of the seventeenth century. The two hundred and fifty years which separate us from that time are a mist that rolls away, and we breathe a Dutch atmosphere. Rembrandt was the painter of his own time and country. The time was when religious freedom had just been ...
... A MILITIA TRAINING. ...
... Pfb^K&T ew!S No. 310. Vol. XXIV. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4. 1899. ...
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