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ST. PAUL'S SOCIETY.- Prof. Harper of Yale University, at the invitation of the Y. M. C. A. and St. Paul's Society, will speak on the "Literary Character of the Bible" in Sever 11 Wednesday evening, May 7, at 7 o'clock. The public are cordially invited.
"Puritans and Pilgrims" is by far the best piece of English in the number. It is a clever fancy. The name of the chief character suffuses Lowell's "Interview with Miles Standish." It is perfectly evident, however, that the coincidence is merely accidental.
Prof. Lyon's lecture yesterday was on the "Cuneiform Inscriptions an the Psalter." The Babylonians and Assyrians had many hymns and psalms which resemble the psalms of the Old Testament in form, in tone and in expression. The most striking resemblances occur in the class of psalms called penitential. Several...
Professor Louis Dyer lectured last night under the auspices of the Harvard Classical Club, on "Greek Religion and Apollo." The lecturer said in brief that by the aid of excavations we are approaching a just appreciation of the Greek religion,-a religion which has supplied later religions with almost as...
The love-songs which spring from this change in Walther's ideas exquisitely beautiful. They breathe forth tenderness and yearning which, though latent before, had been aroused by his new insight into the character of true love. At about this time, too, he wrote many songs against the Pope, and...