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Four important French manuscripts are now on exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum: two Psalters dating from the thirteenth century, and "Les Chroniques de France, dites Chroniques de St. Denis," of the fourteenth century, lent by John Pierpont Morgan, and a fourteenth century Bible lent by W...
What a pity! Such a fine system is debarred, through no fault of its own, from playing the full role which it is destined to play. The limitations are not inherent but exterior to it. The intrinsic value of the system is then, in no wise diminished. The sole trouble...
Singularly fitting today are the words uttered by Macaulay when he urged "Reform in order that you may preserve." In the past year we have witnessed repeated examples of the inability of the machinery at Washington to cope with pressing situations. It is not that we have had ignorant or...
There is not space to quote at length from the majority opinion. One quotation will have to suffice: "We do not," say the majority, "mean to say that the law is not its own measure, and that it can be disregarded, but only that the appropriate relief in each instance...
Mr. Train's idea in "The Hanging of the Angel" is very neat and the execution rather too full. This is certainly better writing than our average professional output. On the other hand, Mr. Hamblett's idea is better than his method; an excellent concluding sentiment, 'let the energy which...