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...rule translations from a foreign language lose much of the charm and subtlety of the originals. No truer example of this has come to our notice than the Letters of Victor Hugo, done into English by Paul Meurice (Houghton Mifflin and Co.) It is a work of remarkable interest, including as it does Hugo's unpublished letters to his father, wife, children, and to many famous persons. But much of the refinement and delicacy of phrase is lost in the translating; and the reader feels that he is hearing Hugo's words from the lips of some one else...
...Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Co. will publish, on June 6, Tennyson's "The Coming of Arthur and Other Idylls of the King" as volume 8 of Rolfe's Students' Series. Price 75 cents; to teachers, 53 cents...
Announcement was made by President Irvine at chapel service yesterday morning that Mr. and Miss Houghton, son and daughter of the late William S. Houghton of Boston, trustee of Wellesley College, have given $100,000 for a chapel to be erected in memory of their father. Work will be begun during the summer and the chapel will be completed in two years...
...Houghton, Mifflin and Company have just forwarded us a copy of F. Hopkinson Smith's latest story, "Tom Grogan." The story, with the same illustrations by Reinhardt, was originally published in the Century, when it was pronounced the best story Mr. Smith ever wrote. As a study of the lives and doings of "the other half" in our great cities it is excellent, and as a story nothing could be more interesting. In "Tom Grogan" Mr. Smith shows an amount of versatility of which few critics thought him capable...
JOHN READ '62, Chief Marshal of the Procession.HENRY 0. HOUGHTON '77, Chairman of the Citizens' Committee.WILLIAM A. BANCROFT '78, Mayor and Chairman of the General Committee...