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...Thackeray case contains two first editions of "Vanity Fair," one of them in the original yellow paper wrapper, with the pages uncut, a manuscript of "The Four Georges" in the hand of Charles Poarman, with numerous corrections and additions in Thackeray's autograph, and a presentation copy of "Henry Esmond," given to Charlotte Bronth in gratitude of her recognition of his work. Several pencil drawings by Thackeray complete the selections, which is made from the collection bequeathed to the University by Mrs. Widener from her son's library...
Today is the last day for receiving manuscripts for the Francis Bott Prize of $100 offered annually to all members of the University for the best composition of concerted vocal music. They should be handed in to Mr. Arthur Foote at 81 Green Street today. The title page of each manuscript must be signed with some motto or assumed name, which should also be placed on the outside of a sealed envelope containing the real name of the competitor...
...title page of each manuscript must be signed with some motto or assumed name which should also be placed on the outside of a sealed envelope containing the real name of the competitor. The prize will be withheld if, in the opinion of the judges, no composition is worthy...
...collection of Wordsworth are four copies of the "Lyrical Ballads," a first edition; the "Descriptive Sketches" bound by the famous binder Langorski and "Evening Walk"; a manuscript, "The Stone-pine of Monte Mario at Rome"; and a "Prelude," which-belonged to Lock-hart, the biographer of Scott. The prize book of the collection is, however, "An Account of the Books Lent out of the Library at Rydale Mount" in the original sheep, in the autograph of William Wordsworth and of Dorothy Wordsworth. In this account are entered the names of de Quincey, Dr. Arnold, and others, as having borrowed books...
...must be obvious to the least informed student of Psychology that here is one of the outcrops of a Freudian repression. The mentality of these marginal annotators, to judge from their manuscript, is somewhat lower than that of the higher Simiidae, and on a level with that of an usher in the movies, an amen-snorter in a Cumberland plateau camp-meeting, or a Dr. Frank Crane. Therefore, in any gathering of civilized men, they are compelled to remain silent, and this for two reasons: first, because they cannot understand the conversation; and second, because their remarks cause rude mirth...