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With its twenty-two hundred volumes, the French Library is also very complete. These include the literary history of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the history of fiction, of poetry and of the drama; a collection of French drama; the more important dictionaries and the works of the...
Of the five collections, the Child Memorial Library is the largest as well as the most valuable. Among its three thousand or more books are numbered the volumes of the "Early English Text Society," the "Chaucer Society," the "Parker Society," the "Percy Society," and the "Shakespeare Society." There are also...
A second recent gift is a collection of musical instruments from southern Mexico. They are made of clay, and are formed to represent various animals. To the backs of the figures are attached whistles, which give out either high or low notes. As the Museum has never before had anything...
Among the recent valuable acquisitions of the Peabody Museum is a large and interesting collection of Samoan relics and tools. In addition to various articles of native dress, cooking utensils and war weapons, there is a rare assortment of taps cloth, a kava bowl, from which the native drink is...
The second collection is a more interesting one, both by reason of its size and of its special object. The library of Charles Schefer, a noted French editor and writer, was sold last May in Paris. It was rich in books on the history of Turkey and on the Eastern...