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It's sweet TO court
But, oh how bitter
To court a gal
And then not git her.
LITERARY NOTES.


at the hands Of the expurgstors- an editor
(Of family edition'') chooses to omit certain Of
Shakespeare's comedies, very well this is in
comparison a triaing offence but let him keep
his hands of from the truthful, lifelike pictures
Of him who but held the mirror up TO nature
and showed the hearts of men as they were We
hold that there is false and oyer-fastidious deli
cacy,which besides annoying all untainted souls,
suggests some impairment Of the moral health.
The man or the mature youth who finds evil in
one Ct Shakespeare's dramas, taken SIS a whole,
has brought With him to this author the faint
snd leprosy Of grossness.'
The author Of " Ginx's Baby" the last Eugl-
i,h literary sensation, If a young London harris
Ter Of the literary name Of jenkins He is the
son Of Montreal clergyman.
Dinsh Maria MULCH is said to have written
more than one thousand poems she has never
printed, IS they failed, on due consideration to
please her slstidious taste
A " History Of the Devil, 50 in one volume, has
been published in France and reprinted in Lon-
don. The - complete works - Of the devil would
Oe 'O' 'o'uuiho1s i'' pl''.'A'''n 'D' 'L'1 We
III nave col''0u7 'iA'''
Alter next year Harvard OoAege VIII not grant
'he degree oil NIAs'er Oh A''s' WITHOUT regular
examination It is time the colleges were taking
some sleh s'sps 10 save inc degree from losing
'ne iAs' pAr"c'e Oh CONSIDERATION ID may nave.
The Rome (Gs.,) Commercial made lis ap-
pearance the other morning with hole in it.
Inc editor explained 1t IN the next issue by STA
ting mai he hai discovered an objectionable ar
ucle' S''e' 'ne eil'ioh hsd oeen "oiked on ana
ha' '"Ppei " OIL oil q" Inc papers before
Seho'ns 'hein cut some OF our contemporaries
N0uii De ABOUT al mole II they were served IN
that way
correspondent writes to al editor TO
'e'' Elm 'nS' scores o. Judges consider certain
JUN "0''0' H'Ps'o i''i'a- 10 winch 'ne elltor
rel'ins 'nS' e'luen'iy the Correspondent vas
mol 'igh' "heh he took 'hAt vie" OF IT,
The Milton has scathing review Of Theodore
PArker's - Historic Americans, showing its
great weakness in just that department Of writ
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1e5,. and -, - ;-.-..-,
'p''-.oNs "''- n'' NC ''i1'
by the publication Of this book and is elit1r F.
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"OuH Ha'e Ooilsui'el me tame u MS Alel1 Ntt- /
ter by putting the manuscript into the fire .
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iatner IMAM 1y giving II 10 the press.
l. . ~. w. ,
~ IeSPeot 10 MISS Llizabetn stuart fheps +
recent novel - The Silent Partner - r. may he /
interesting to her many admirers TO learn that
she herself is about to become psrtner-not
silent, let US hope. in a domestic firm, Of which .
the other member is young clergyman. He has
auug his - Gates Ajar'' for her. and she has
agreed to enter in.
s.Goetbe's Concentrations With Muller 9, li.sI
An Burkbsrit have orl, ,..or+,y lser
published in Germany. altbop,b Muller b.. tssr
deaf twenty wears 7, has ~, i-,-,ss;,.i, o.,
zye hi, literary rer,.i,s IN the ,,,-I5 t,e-o ~,
account Of the Jeceass If o,s sfc- another of
his literary executors
--' ~ -i'l eAo- O''i''' i mus A'el ID
'' ''-''"'"s e''y ieSS'H iO' pupiis III e''cu'-oh
Inc AT aiat tr' fe'efOera'e sometimes Win great
When windy individuals indulge in much ver5rs'ty.
i"'' minute, ~ ''--''
And push a aIa Cd. Pq1e9 the diaphragm as though the
CHORUS.
me PaaTyn1 NOV now goes ~.
Elects a note,
Pushed he'd b S-t the i,,S d sihSr.
Tho So,,,5o,, Rer;e,, in 81 rscs,, i.,,s i,.
,roIrcss one If il. sens,tion. articles pp5sr ,bc
heading .. Otbsrwiss-ninisj ., with tho f,r,v
;ng acknowledgement 70 American rbil,ro-v
EVERY now and then we receive f,om America
a word or a phrase which enriches the language
without vulgarizing it-something both more
subtle and comprehensive than our own equiya-
lent. aud which We recognize at once as the bet
ter thing Of the two Thus .otherwise-mindei.'
which some American writers use with such
qusint force, is quite beyond our cid coutraiie-
tous,' expressing the full meaning Of contrsd.o-
tions. and ling GOOD deal more 50 The Re.
rieio is evidently not entirely familiar with the
wealth Of words in the best Of all books In the
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