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Title: The Argonaut
Year: 1877 (1870s)
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Subjects: Journalism
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Argonaut Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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yChrists teaching on social questions to presentconditions. The Story of Aaron,so-named, the Son ofBen Ali. A Sequel to Little Mr. Thimblefinger and HisQueer Country, and Mr. Rabbit at Home.By Joel Chandler Harris. With 25 Illus-trations by Oliver Herford. Square 8vo, il-luminated cover, $2.00.Aaron can talk with animals ; he tells the secret to the Thimblefinger children, and here are the stories they heard. A Little Girl of Long-Ago. By Eliza Orne White, author of Winter,borough, The Coming of Theodora, etc.A charming companion volume to Miss Whites When Molly was Six. With cover designand two other illustrations. Square i6mo, $1.00.Sold by Booksellers. Sent, postpaid^ by HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN I CO., Boston. BLASIUSPIANOS New Styles Just Receiver! CALL AND SEE THEM. KOHLER I CHASE,, -s .26, 28, 30 OFarrel 1 St. In every town where Swin. is known,The little Bear Calendar will be shown. All Booksellers. Dodge B. & S. Co., 112 Post Street, Publishers. 10 THE ARGONAUT. November 2, 1896.
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For three hours last Monday evening, the Bald-win Theatre was hushed in a spell of enchantmentand joy. Hushed, by the way, is not a good word,as a theatre-party in the middle of the house chosethe opportunity of an evening at the play to havea lovely, garrulous time talking together. It isvery odd how impervious a certain type of mind isto the attractions of poetry or romance. Onewould suppose that nobody could talk when such aperformance was in progress, that the meanestintelligence, as the newspapers say, would betouched by this beautiful play so exquisitely per-formed. But there are intelligences that not evena great Shakespeare tragedy, greatly acted, willaffect. In the upper galleries an intense and ap-preciative silence reigned. It was from the bodyof the theatre, where intelligence is supposed to sitenthroned, that a senseless chatter rose intermit-tently from the rise to the drop of the curtain. If a person could not be impressed by the Romeo and Juliet of Monday evening, heis

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