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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...which dared to question the Public's critical taste, and is somehow reminded of the story of "Elijah" and the Bears. In the Bible, as translated for Chelsea, the name of the bear-compeller may be that mentioned in the Public, but King James's version (used in all English-speaking countries) gives ELISHA as the prophet's name. However, this is a mere question of accuracy, and hardly concerns the Public...
Bulwer was, undoubtedly, a good classical scholar, though he has bequeathed us but little in that department. Leaving the beaten track followed by most Englishmen of position and education, and foregoing the pleasure of rendering into English the works of Homer, he has been content with a translation of Horace's Odes and Epodes. The translation is, as a rule, very literal, and the renderings excellent; the beauty of the work has been marred by an attempt to preserve in the English all the original metres of the Latin...
...January, T. W. Higginson proposes a plan for Inter-collegiate Scholarships. The necessary money being presupposed, candidates from different colleges will be examined by a competent board, and the prizes assigned to those who give evidence of the best general qualifications. As in the case of the English schools and the University Scholarships, each college will work for the reputation of furnishing the greatest number of successful candidates. Each, also, will try to be excellent in its various departments, that it may secure many of these scholars as resident graduates...