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...articles in literature are "Books and Reading in Iceland" by W. E. Mead, "Shakespeare and Copyright" by Horace Davis, and "Thomas William Parsons" by Richard Hovey. Besides these articles there are several more all of which are worthy of note, especially that entitled "White Mountain Forests in Peril" by J. H. Ward. The poetry contributed is "The Eavesdropper" by Bliss Carman and "Hegesias" by Edith M. Thomas, both of which are suggestive and full of hidden meaning...
...CENTURY.This month the Century is devoted to closing up all the old-standing accounts: that is, it is full of conclusions. The end of Mary Ellen Foote's 'Chosen Valley' has come; 'A Mountain Europa' is finished; the last of Thomas Cole's beautiful engravings after the works of the old masters is published, and Henry B. Fuller's 'Chateleine of LaTrinite' says farewell. It is sad that Mr. Cole's series is finished. One has come to look forward and wonder happily what old favorite would be presented next. Never before has such a collection of beautiful works been...
Honorable commendation was made of pictures exhibited by F. H. Cummings. '95, Prof. F. C. de Sumichrast, A. Lincoln '95, T. A. Jaggar '93, and to a picture of Blue Mountain on which there was no name...
...Eliot was in California in Los Angeles, he visited, with several other gentlemen, as the guests of Mr. Raymond, the excursionist, Mt. Wilson. The trip occupied two days and was made partly by coach, partly on broncho-back. Connected with Wilson's peak by a narrow ridge is a mountain, which Harvard experts tried to get in order to secure photographs of the transit of Venus. They were unable to do so then. Recently, however, the entire summit and its approaches, a space of ten acres, has been tendered to Harvard College. This peak will be the site...
...verdure were covered with dust. In the district of Gippslon the graceful ferns grow luxuriantly in picturesque forms and the trees reach a great height. Views were exhibited of the hot springs of New Zealand and of vegetation before and after the eruption, which covered the mountain districts with cinders, showing the complete destruction of all plant life. The lecture closed with a number of pictures of Japan, disclosing the effects of the disastrous earthquakes last fall...