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The late James Russell Lowell, during his term of service in the Smith Professorship, made a large collection of books in the Romance Languages, mainly in Old French and Spanish. In his will be gave from this collection such books as were not already to be found on the shelves...
About $2000 has been raised for the proposed Germanic Museum. By the end of the year, the committee of the German Department, composed of Professors Bartlett, Francke and Schilling, hopes to secure $10,000, with which to start a collection of views and reproductions of characteristic works of Germanic industry...
The Library has lately received an interesting gift from Mr. Thornton K. Lothrop of Boston, consisting of a collection of poems written by Oxford undergraduates in competition for the Newdigate Prize, offered yearly from 1826 to 1890.
A collection of casts of inscriptions on the stone stairway leading up to the prehistoric temple at Copan, Honduras, has recently been put on exhibition at the Peabody Museum. The inscriptions are similar to those found in the Maya books and probably have a religious significance. The stairway is built...
Count Riant was a thorough scholar, who had devoted his life to the study of the Crusades and all historical questions connected with them. As the founder of the "Societe de l' Orient Latin," as a prolific author, and as a keen learned expert in the study of manuscript, he...