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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first treats entirely of Arthur, relating his birth, his subjection of Britain, the war with Rome, and his death in the last battle with the traitor, Sir Modred. This work was afterwards versified, and was much amplified and adorned. Sir Thomas Malory devotes most of his book to Merlin, Lancelot, the Sangreal, and Guinevere. The two histories coincide only in regard to the birth of Arthur, the Roman Expedition, and the final battle; the first is almost entirely the life of Arthur alone, and in the second Lancelot is the chief figure, and more prominence is given to other knights...
...studying the peculiarities of gait among pedlers. It is an easy matter to discover a new hand at the business. He walks along rather undecidedly, stops to scan the name on the door, and then knocks, with something of deference in the sound. Far different is the hardened book-agent or phrenologist; he gives an extremely frank and unembarrassed thump, and comes in without waiting for an answer. Between these two extremes there are many who partake more or less of one or the other, and to distinguish between them is a more intricate study than one might imagine...
...modern literature offered us ten years from now, I am confident that not one of us would willingly let the opportunity go by. It is only ignorance and carelessness that causes such indifference as we see now. Mr. R. W. Emerson has said that he rarely reads a book in the original if he can get a good translation of it. Whether this is the best policy or not, all men do not agree; but certainly in hearing a Greek tragedy, for instance, translated and explained by one who is thoroughly interested in a subject of which he has made...
...brushing up one's knowledge of a language. AEschylus is reputed hard, yet under Mr. Goodwin's guidance it was very easy to follow the text, and one felt his knowledge of the language increased while he caught the spirit of the original much more completely than from a book translation. Whether it was owing to the more general acquaintance with French among our students, or the attractiveness of Moliere, or the excellence of the rendering by the professor, it cannot be said; but it was greatly to the credit of the College that the French readings were so well...
...SOME books have disappeared from the Yale Library, and the Library Committee have published a card in the Courant, threatening to make public the name of any person who shall be found guilty of taking a book from the Library. In reference to the new Chapel at New Haven, the Courant prints the following pithy editorial...