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...Pascal Zola has ignored, and has only considered the lower side of man. Zola's novel, "La Terse," has lately been dramatized and put on the stage in a Parisian literary theatre. The characters are countrymen, people of little or no culture, who in every country have a certain brutality of instinct. Yet in criticising this work, the peasants declare that Zola has ascribed to them all the crimes committed in the whole of France during the last ten years. Zola has betrayed Truth; he has made up his mind to depict human nature as ugly, and accordingly all classes...
...report is devoted to showing the desirability of having the Semitic Museum undertake various explorations on its own account. It states that there are several obvious reasons why the Museum should undertake explorations in Egypt. For many centuries Egypt was intimately related to the Semitic world, and it is certain that a well-planned and vigorous expedition would bring to light many of the treasures still lying beneath its soil. Several European governments and learned societies are displaying great activity in Egyptian excavations, and owing to this activity the chances for success in this field are decreasing with each passing...
...brought into the general scheme of distribution, which not only helps every library receiving or likely to receive these books, but also makes the card catalogue of American collections at Washington complete. In this way a person may be advised not merely upon what literature exists, dealing with a certain subject; but also where the particular books required may be most conveniently found. An investigator failing to find in one of these subscribing libraries a work dealing with his subject of research, may easily ascertain whether it is contained in the National Library by reference to these cards...
...Winter Ode," by H. W. Holmes, has no little beauty of description. But the Monthly has seldom--if ever--given twenty pages of space to a weaker effort than "The Tower of Silence; a Play," or published a poem more out-of-place than the doggerel verses, "On a Certain Retaining Wall...
About 125 candidates for the Freshman and University crews are now working daily at the University boat house. The Freshmen have been graded to a certain extent and are being coached in squads by H. Bullard '02, E. E. Smith '02, and R. S. Francis '02. Although it is still too early for a definite idea of the strength of the candidates, they have at least the weight and ability of the average Freshman crews of former years. At present, the men follow the usual routine of work--practsising on the machines and exercises, and ending with a half-mile...