Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...etchings are left for sale; also some framed photographs at low prices. A two volume edition of Les Miserables, illustrated, now out of print. New Books - Dicey: England's Case against Home Rule; McLennan: Studies in Ancient History - a reprint of Primitive Marriage: Dowden: Life of Shelley. 2 vols,; W. R. Clifford: Lectures and Essays; Alphonse Daudet: Tartarin on the Alps; Lowell: Democracy. Tennyson: Locksley Hall...
Literature. The various branches cultivated by the non-Shemites and the Shemites. The earliest hymns and incantations. Religious and historical writings. Preservations by the Assyrians of the ancient literature. Libraries in Babylonian cities and Assyrian palaces. Great importance of literary sources for a knowledge of the history and character of Assyrian...
...rare copy of Maudeville's Fable of the Bees, printed in 1728; also a 2 vol. edition of Les Miserables, illustrated, now out of print. New Books - Dicey: England's Case against Home Rule; McLennon: Studies in Ancient History - a reprint of Primitive Marriage: Dowden: Life of Shelley, 2 vols.; W. R. Clifford: Lectures and Essays; Alphonse Daudet: Tartarin on the Alps; Lowell: Democracy...
...rare copy of Maudeville's Fable of the Bees, printed in 1728; also a 2 vol. edition of Les Miserables, illustrated, now out of print. New Books - Dicey: England's Case against Home Rule; McLennon: Studies in Ancient History - a reprint of Primitive Marriage: Dowden: Life of Shelley. 2 vols.; W. R. Clifford: Lectures and Essays; Alphonse Daudet: Tattarin on the Alps; Lowell: Democracy...
...study offered there, and enables one to make a comparison with that at Harvard which we discussed at some length one week ago. The requirements for admission do not greatly differ so far as classics and mathematics go, except that Harvard presents an option between one of the ancient languages and a rather severe equivalent in physical science and a choice of modern history in place of ancient. But Harvard also requires a considerable amount of English and of physical science, which Yale does not demand at all, before the second or third year in college. All the studies...