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Conditionally upon the formation of a sufficiently large party, a geological and geographical excursion in the North Atlantic for the summer of 1901 was planned last January. It was proposed to hire a steamer of about 1000 tons specially adapted for ice navigation and capable of accommodating 60 men. The...
Following is an article by R. T. Hale, entitled "The Old President's Chair." It is distinctly better in style than the preceding and reads with some interest. With the exception of an able article on the Harvard debating system, it is the only good thing in the whole number...
There are in all thirty fables in the Talmud which have come down in Esop's Fables, until now they are well known folk-lore. In looking at the original source of the fables we find that they came first from India. Then they were taken up by the Greeks...
There are five books of which King Alfred is certainly the author: "Pastoral Care," and "Dialogues," translated from Gregory's Latin, the "History of the World" and the "Consolation of Philosophy," adopted from Boethius, and the "History of the Church of England," translated from Baeda. It is the translations form...
"Gaudeum certaminis"--the joy of the struggle--were the words with which one of the friends of Stevenson used to sum up the spirit of the author's career. Throughout his life, Stevenson had constantly to fight--against sickness and the very near approach of death, but he was always...