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Regulations have been announced as follows: "The title page of each manuscript must bear an assumed name, with a statement of the writer's academic standing, and must be accompanied by a sealed letter, containing his true name and superscribed with his assumed name. Every essay must be neatly and legibly written or typewritten. Essayists are at liberty to write on any one of the subjects which have been proposed in the years during which this prize has been offered, or to propose new subjects for the approval of the Council of the Dante Society...
...Widener Library has on exhibition in the Treasure Room some contemporary souvenirs of Lafayette's visit to this country in 1824, including Everett's oration and Ware's poem before the Phi Beta Kappa Society in that year, with manuscript notes of the toasts given at the dinner at which Lafayette was a guest, a play--bill of the theatrical performance in his honor in New York, various biographies called forth by his presence here, a collection of poems in his honor, and a scrap--book of newspaper clippings tracing his progress from town to town...
...case is devoted to the volumes of manuscript copies of his correspondence and papers which Lafayette himself sent to Jared Sparks, afterward President of the University, and to Sparks" notes taken down at Lagrange from Lafayette's dictation...
...Words worth case are first editions of "An Evening Walk" and "The White Doc of Rylstone" and the manuscript of "The Stone Pine of Monte Mario". There is also the notebook in which Words worth kept account of the books which he lent from his library...
...Library has lately received from the Chinese Legation in Washington a sumptuous volume in an interesting and beautiful brocade case, comprising a catalog in Chinese of a comprehensive manuscript collection of 36,000 volumes, covering Chinese History, Philosophy and Classics, said to be the largest collection of this character in existence...