Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-05-29
THREE NEW BOOKS.

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OF short essays or criticisms on men and
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English work The author, as is common
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ESSAY page = he says:
81 came down in the train with three strang
cr-. One OF them offered me hSht, and said
IL WAS a fine Jay. That was not true, and II IL
hal been true, would not have been impor'
tant.~
Turn two pages page lO) and the author
himself proceeds 70 discuss that "unimpor-
tSut" subject, the weather:
a splendid summer day. wooing the very
coat OF your back, aud the shoes or your feet,
a fair wind, Just enough if It lasts TO take you
20 your port
Again. on the next leaf page l2)
"why should it blow half a gale Of wind
right ON the shore whenever YOU are waiting
your tide" '''
Psge46-7:
To-day the weather Is 50 far equally fine, IN
in fact and IN promise; grateful breeze 4
carrying n between five and six knots through
the water -.
And so hegOes OF, every few pages, dis
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out with a rather bruSque criticism Of a
stranger who inadvertently made a single
assertion on the topic, as a matter OF cour-
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oueutly compares the capers OF his craft
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ins, in fact domiueering for domestic life.
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stray thoughts are well worth reading
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