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NERO AT THE CIRCUS. —This beautiful painting by Siemiradzki depicts a sample scene from the life of the brutal Nero. The pages of Roman 
history are filled with his bloody deeds. Tyrannical, profligate, matricide and suicide, he presents, perhaps, history’s crowning example of the misuse 
of great power. A number of articles concerning him, from the classic writers of Rome, are included, among hundreds of others, in 
Ideas and Ideals 
Thousands of classic ideas and ideals, 
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ages of thinking—are here gathered to¬ 
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New England, for the pleasure and profit 
of the average man of to-day. 
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Collection in Literature 
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (called 
“the scholar in politics”) has combed the 
literature of the world and he presents 
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to the casual reader. 
Wide and Entertaining Variety 
Not to be familiar with some of these 
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Cowper, On Keeping One’s Self Em¬ 
ployed; Burke, On The Principles of 
Good Taste; David Hume, The Defeat 
of the Spanish Armada; Lord Chester¬ 
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World; Matthew Arnold, The Motive for 
Culture; Herbert Spencer, The Orna¬ 
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Swift, On the Art of Lying in Politics; 
Swift, On Pretense in Philosophers; 
Marcus Aurelius, On His Debt to Others; 
Cicero, of Brave and Elevated Spirits; 
Epictetus, Of Friendship; Emerson, On 
His Visit to Carlyle; Adam Smith, The 
Advantages of a Division of Labor; Sir 
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