Word: calf
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...Hunt's "Autumn" gathers pleasingly a bunch of characteristic detail. The author's sense of smell seems to be exceptionally acute. Most of us would find it hard to describe the odor either of a swarm of bees or of a maiden-hair fern. In "The, Golden Calf" Mr. Pulsifer expounds a false idea. Many men are neither the slaves nor the masters of money--professors, for example. F. Biddle's quatrain is expressed with neatness and restraint, and "The Wind" by Mr. C. P. Aiken is the most imaginative thing in the issue. Mr. Alfred, Noyes's "The Flowers...
...John B. Gerrish '71, of New York, the library has received an edition of Colley Cibber's Works, in 5 volumes, published in 1736, a very handsome edition of George Meredith, in 32 volumes, and a superb edition of Fielding, printed in 11 volumes and bound in tree calf. The Deutscher Verein has given complete sets of the works of Schiller, Lessing and Goethe, in 10, 16 and 40 volumes respectively. These sets are in the German text...
...book is a copy of Tasso's "Jerusalem De ivered," translated by Lebrun from the Italian into French, and supplemented by a biographical sketch of Tasso. The book is in two volumes, illustrated by several ngravings, and was printed in Paris by Bossanger in 1803; it is bound in calf, and on the covers are the imperial eagles, and, stamped in gold, the word "Fontainebleau." From the library of the palace of Fontainebleau, the book was carried to Elba by the Emperor Napoleon, and was afterwards given by him to the doctor of the island, who assisted Napoleon...
Brooks House has been presented a complete set of the works of Phillips Brooks, published by E.P. Dutton & Company. The set is an edition de luxe, bound in calf, and numbers twelve volumes. Each volume has stamped in gold on one side "Harvard University" and on the other "Phillips Brooks House." The frontispiece of the first volume is an excellent steel engraving of the author. Rev. John Cotton Brooks is the editor of the edition...