Word: indians
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecturer spoke as foilows: The Mahabharata, the grandest poem in Indian literature, dates back about 2000 years. It is a mere jumble of episodes, some tedious, some ridiculous, and some as noble and musical as the best parts of Homer. The poem contains 220.000 lines, with 18,000 supplementary ones, and is held in such high honor by Indians that it is learned by heart. The Indians sit around some Brahmin, and consider it one of the greatest boons to listen to him recite episode after episode. The metre is easily mastered and therefore easily imitated; this quality...
...close of the lecture Sir Edwin Arnold addressed the students and begged them to do all they could to further the study of Indian literature...
...this occasion he sent a message to one of the native princes ordering him to come with gold and jewels or lose his head. The prince was unterrified and merely sent word to Alexander to come to him and learn wisdom. This prince was a follower of the Indian philosophers, who find in the beautiful recesses of the forest, charming with foliage and animal life, temples where they can retire and meditate...
...professors. Professor Charles Eliot Norton contributes a charming sketch entitled "Rawdon Brown and the Gravestone of 'Banished Norfolk,' " in which he describes Mr. Brown's antiquarian works in Venice. Professor C. H. Toy has an article on the origin and history of "The Thousand and One Nights." The mixed Indian and Persian and Arabian character of the stories is traced. Professor Royce publishes his second paper of "Reflections after a Wandering Life in Australasia" which is fully as thoughtful and interesting as the first. The rest of the number is full of interest. The serials are "The Tragic Muse...
Cambridge Indian Association. Alaska and its Indians. Address. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, U. S. Supt. of schools in Alaska. Sanders Theatre...