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Professor Child specially distinguished himself as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and early English literature, and ranked foremost in the knowledge of songs and ballads. By his works he has done more to save to us the old songs and ballads of England and Scotland from oblivion than any other man. He was a great Shakespearian scholar, and in 1848 published a work entitle "Four Old Plays," containing a collection of old English plays. He was also a great lover of Chaucer and Spenser, and in 1858 edited an edition of the latter's poems...
...project is eminently practical; it offers three positive and lasting advantages. The permanent court would have the machinery for settling disputes ready in advance. The second advantage is that the very existence of the court composed of the most eminent jurists of the Anglo-Saxon race and invested with the honor and authority of the two greatest nations of the age must powerfully affect the imagination of the people. Here are two advantages which the negative have not been able to deny. With the permanent court you cannot help getting them; without the court you cannot get them...
...Knap," and in others that might be named, than would have been expected from a writer of his imagination and other rich gifts. Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Walford, and even Mrs. Gaskill have written stories after the manner of the novel-chapter already referred to, and only Mr. Kipling, an Anglo-Indian, and Stevenson, a Scotchman, among contemporary British writers have had uniform artistic success in this sort of work. Guy de Maupassant is the master of contemporary French authors in the conte...
...leading his class he won the class of 1870 English Prize and was second man in the Biddle essay contest. In junior year he secured the Wood scholarship which is the first honor prize of the year; also the Wanamaker prize in English Literature, and the class of 1870 Anglo-Saxon prize. In this year he won first in junior debate in Whig and was one of Whig's representatives in the public junior oratorical contest at commencement. In the fall of '95 he won first in the annual French medal debate, the prize for which is a large gold...
LOST.- Friday evening, February 21, in Harvard square, a copy of Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer. Please return to 45 Winthrop street...