The Penn Monthly (Volume 5) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874. Excerpt: ... be found a passage containing an example of the use of the word in that sense. The whole is a marvel of patient industry, and shows great familiarity with the poet's works. The author, Dr. Schmidt, is a German, and this increases our admiration for the book, while it explains the few errors in the work that we have discovered. The first volume only is published. The resignations of several prominent officials have taken place this month. Mr. Bancroft, after representing us at Berlin for more than six years, has turned his steps homeward. A learned and accomplished man, with an extended continental reputation, he has done us great credit and his return is a subject of regret. His successor, Mr. Bancroft-Davis, is reported to be a man of industry, and has been Assistant Secretary of State for a number of years. He is unfavorably known as the author (at least he is responsible for them) of the " Indirect Claims," or "Consequential Damages, ' that improperly raised rock on which we came so near going to pieces in the Arbitration of'72; but the appointment seemed generally to be approved, where it has awakened comment at all. Mr. Creswell's course, during his six years of administration of the Post-office Department, seems to have been that of an efficient officer. He cannot be said to have been neglectful of the peculiarly political duties which are supposed to be especially attached to that place (it wields more power of patronage than all the other cabinet offices put together), but he has escaped severe censure, which is something in these days. Mr. Hale, a friend of Mr. Blaine's, at once received the vacant portfolio, to the astonishment of the quidnuncs, who were "sure that it would be offered to a Pennsylvanian." He, however, declined it on account of il...