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"Sadko", composed by Rimsky Korsakow in 1867, has been called the first Russian symphonic poem. It was the germ from which the opera of the same name sprang in 1896. Korsakow re-orchestrated the tone-poem in 1891, the new version of which is always played. How it recalled the...
The Fogg Museum of Fine Arts has recently acquired for its Oriental Department a fine painting of the Tosa School; dating probably from the fifteenth century. The painting represents a daimio on horseback, and near him a standing and a seated figure. The picture is drawn in black on a...
There of these forthcoming works as volumes 28, 29 and 30 of the Harvard Oriental Series, edited by C. R. Lanman, professor of Sanskrit in the University, and Correspondent de I'Acedmie des Inscription et Belles-Lettres de I'Institutde France. The new volumes are called "Buddhist Legends", and are...
In these days of street cars and automobiles there is little indeed to connect Boston with the City of the Faithful-- Bagdad. Nonetheless the spirit of the Arabian Nights is with us still, Who does not recall how the Sultan, Harounel- Rashid accompanied by his trusty Vizier was wont to...
An effort has been made to obtain for this branch of the Service young men, preferably university graduates who desire to specialize and make a career for themselves in the Oriental branches of the Consular Service. The Department is unable to allow candidates a choice as between service in China...