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your voico in admiration of tho poetic
power of twenty lines of verso when 'proba
bly they are about the only poetry you ever
read in your life. Now don't go to quoting
the "Rights of Man." Mr. Paine said a
good deal about them, but ho didn't say any
thing about the rights of little boys in cadet
uniforms or in band uniforms, either. No
one objects to your hectic'worship or your
puney criticism-, if only you keep quiet about
it. The world has read and seemingly ad
mired Macbeth for some centuries before you
made your particular revelations on the sub
ject, and it will read Pope for some centuries
after you have discovered that his percentage
of poetic words is small. You say you have
as much right to express your opinion as the
professor has to express his. No such thing,
he is paid a salary to express his views.
When you have opinions that are worth two
thousand dollars a year, there is no objection
to your finding a market for them.
THE LIBRARY.
, During the summer many improvements
have been made in the library, and the
librarian and her astistants are making the
best of their cramped quarters. After all, a
library building is not the only or the chief
thing required to make a good library. Sys
tem and an efficient librarian are enough to
recompense us for a great many evils.
All the bound periodicals and unbound
books have been placed upstairs, and are
reached, not by a rickety step-ladder, but by
a flight of stairs which, if not ornamental,
may at least be ascended and descended
with physical safety. All the newspapers
have been placed in the reading room, and
the late magazines occupy a caso in tho li
brary proper. Tho Scientific American and
all books on manual training have been
transferred to the manual training building,
where they are now at the disposal of all
students who may wish to use them. A caso
for now books has been placed in the read
ing room, in which all now books will be
placed as soon as received. The changes in
the library have their picturesque as well as
their practical side. Tho alcoves are as dark
as the region of chaos and unformed things,
and on even tho brightest days the librarian
moves about with her priestly taper among
among tho little tin gods.
Among tho valuable additions to tho li
brary aro a beautiful little set of Jane Aus
tin, several of Robert Louis Stevenson's
novels, Iceland Fisherman, by Pierre Loti;
a long needed sot of Dickens, JBourget's
"Cosmopolis," Van Dyke's "Art for Art's
Sake," Talcs of Francois Coppee, and Lip
pencott's Pronouncing Gazeteer of the
World. It is evident that there has been a
wise movement on tho part of some person
or other to provide the library with fiction
that it has long needed. Next to furnishing
reference books, the main object of tho li
brary is to get students to reading, and it is
plain enough that people will read New
Arabian Nights who will not read Modern
Painters or Taine on the intelligence.
The book "Art for Art's Sake," by John
0. Van Dyke, professor of art history in
Rutgers College, is pronounced'by critics to
be tho best practical book on painting ever
published. It is, perhaps, the only "popu
lar" book on art that has retained all tho
purity and dignity of a strictly scientific es
say. It is earnestly recommended to stu
eents of art or art history, as it is tho most
satisfactory and tangible book on tho subject
in the library.
Did it ever occur to you that we have
right here in Nebraska tho finest system of
stores in the country outside of Now York ?
We refer to Herpolsheimer & Co. A few
years ago it seemed a great mistake, but thoy
have built up so good a trade that thoy have
over one-half of the Exposition -building, rent
free, thus enabling them to save this great
item of expense in conducting a business.
A special discount. Students purchasing
fall clothing can obtain a special discount at
Baker's Clothing House.
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