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Silver, Burdett and Company, of New York, have recently published a book by Dr. J. D. M. Ford, of the Department of Romance Languages, entitled "Anthologia Castellana." The book is a collection of Spanish lyrics from the thirteenth century to the present day. It differs from other collections mainly in...
The papyri recently received by the Semitic Museum from the Egypt Exploration Fund of London, have just been mounted and put on exhibition in the Semitic collection in the Peabody Museum. They are in the railing case on the north side of the Semitic room.
The collection, which is a very interesting one, is made up of nineteen fragments, written in Greek, in different states of preservation, and of various sizes. Twelve of them were found at Oxyrhynchus, an Egyptian town, and the seven others came from various towns in the Fayum, a district west...
One of the most interesting of these papyri is a fragment--marked 2211 in the collection--which Professor Blass attributes to Alcman. It contains seven hexameter lines, of remarkable beauty. A translation of the only four lines which are complete is:
Harvard is to have an extensive exhibit at the Pan-American exposition which opens next month. The nucleus of the exhibit will be that sent to the Paris exposition last year, but several additions and improvements have been made in the collection.