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During the Christmas recess, Professors Royce and James will complete their series of lectures on the Philosophy of Natural Religion at the Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Saint Andrews, Scotland. They are twenty in number and are open to the public, irrespective of creed. Ten were given last year and the remaining ten will be given this year...
These lectures were founded by the late Lord Gifford, judge in the high court of justice in Scotland, who gave 80,000 pounds at his death to the Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Saint Andrews, in order that they might arrive at a clearer conception of natural religion. The lectures, last year, were very successful and are now being printed. The first half, under the title of "The World and the Individual," by Professor Royce, will appear in a few days and will be used in his courses. The subjects of the lectures are always the same, but different...
...Ives is a French prisoner of war in the castle of Edinburgh, who, falling in love with a fair visitor, fights a duel on her account with another prisoner and kills him. Effecting his escape, he makes his way to London to take possession of a fortune left by an uncle. A disinherited cousin becomes the enemy of St. Ives, and using the knowledge of the duel as a weapon, helps to make the story interesting. St. Ives goes back to see his Flora and is pursued by the cousin and the police. As the meshes are closing around...
...been proposed to erect in his native city of Edinburgh a memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson, and a committee of his Scotch and English admirers and friends, headed by Lord Rosebery and having among its number those as near to Stevenson as Mr. Sidney Colvin, Mr. George Meredith, and Mr. J. M. Barrie, has been already formed to carry out the project. But Stevenson is no-where held in greater admiration or affection than in America, and it seems certain than many of his American readers would be glad of an opportunity to take part in this tribute...
William Allen Neilson, A. M. (Univ. of Edinburgh) 1891, A. M. (Harvard Univ.) 1896; II. year Graduate School; University Scholar, 1896-97. To study English...