Word: founding
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...preparing a list of its incunabula or books published before 1500. This work is being done at the request of the Public Library of Philadelphia, which has undertaken the task of compiling a list of all the incunabula in the United States, and the places where they may be found. This list is to figure in the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gutenberg of Maing, the inventor of printing
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...first time that the play has been put on the stage, although large parts have been taken bodily from it by more popular authors, especially Moliere. The original play contained five acts, but in order to bring it into suitable compass for amateur theatricals it has been found necessary to cut it down to three acts. This work was done by M. C. H. Bernard and H. B. Stanton...
...late James Russell Lowell, during his term of service in the Smith Professorship, made a large collection of books in the Romance Languages, mainly in Old French and Spanish. In his will be gave from this collection such books as were not already to be found on the shelves of the Harvard College Library, but the greater part of the collection remained in the hands of his heirs. This part consists of over seven hundred volumes, many of them of great interest to the student of Romance Languages, not only of course by reason of their intrinsic value, but also...
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