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To meet the desires of his publishers (The Messrs. Scribner) Mr. Edwin L. Godkin has made a selection of "Reflections and Comments, 1865-1895" from his editorial articles in the Nation during the last thirty years. They are thirty-three in number, arranged chronologically, and are a distined addition to...
The library gains some 5,000 volumes yearly by purchase, and about the same number by gift, and although the two batches in which the Slavic books were received were the only large additions, yet the smaller donations have brought the number of volumes up to the average. These books...
In the vicinity of Cambridge the facilities for personal study of works of art or their reproductions are unequalled in the United States. A good representative collection of Egyptian art is available at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, is the best Assyrian and Chaldaean...
Mediaeval art, being chiefly architectural, is difficult to reproduce, but the Art Renaissence is well illustrated by the fine collection of photographs in the Fogg Art Museum. Mr. Robinson concluded by urging all men in College to avail themselves of these opportunities for studying art as it should be studied...
The whole matter of the sources from which are derived La Fontaine's fables is very prolix and full of detail. One of the greatest collections of such fables is Aesop's, which is intimately connected with the tales of the East. Another great collection is that in the "Jataka...