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Newspaper
Galesville Transcript
Location
Galesville, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1861
Page
2
Mrs. Appleton plans to board six new “boarders” at three dollars weekly, expecting twelve dollars profit weekly. The stage arrives with three boys and three girls, revealed as her children by a former husband, making Hiram their dependent foster father and leaving him financially and emotionally overwhelmed.
The critic argues Macaulay ranks high yet not among the very elite minds. In history he excelled, but he did not craft creative works like a Midsummer Night's Dream or Faust. His lyric writing reflects tradition with steady judgment, but lacks spontaneous, childlike grace.
Frazer's Magazine offers a judgment of Lord Macaulay as a strong though artificial genius. It contrasts his disciplined, monumental prose with Shakespeare and Fielding, noting his lack of natural lightness yet praising his historic clarity and deliberate restraint.
The piece lauds Scottish religious heritage and the martyrs of the Reformation, highlighting Patrick Hamilton and John Knox. It recalls battles in faith, the sacrifices of godly men and women, and the 1560 acts establishing Protestantism. Observances mark the three hundredth anniversary of Presbyterian establishment and the 1517 German Reformation’s reach into Scotland.
A Vermont teaching woman in Georgia reports locals excited by Mr. Lincoln s election. She describes a recent formation of a local military company among the young men and a drill day. Each soldier reportedly had a black man accompany him to carry his gun.
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