BY JULIA WARD HOWE. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. 1881. Copyright , 1880, BY ROBERTS BROTHERS. PRINTED BY ALFRED MUDGE AND SON....

What means this summons, oh friends! to the groves of Academe? I heard, in the distance, the measured tread of Philosophy. I mused: "How grave and deliberate is she! How she matches thought with thought! How patiently she questions inference and conclusion! No irrelevance, no empty ballooning, is allowed in that Concord school. Nothing frivolous need apply there for admission." And lo! in the midst of this severe entertainment an interlude is called for in the great theatre. The stage manager sa

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