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Dressed and Danced in the ’Sixties.—War Prices.—Mrs.
Jared Sparks.—Visit of the Russian Fleet.—The Brain
Club.—Oliver Wendell Holmes.—Ralph Waldo
Emerson.—William R. Alger.—William M. Hunt.—“Mamma’s
Owls,” William and Henry James.—A Clever Group of
Society Women.—A Historic Nose-pulling.