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...everywhere demanded; and the tenants went regularly to Quebec to do homage to their lords. Finally the farming communities became so oppressed that the English government abolished the system, paying the seigneurs in full for their lands. The second of the monographs, by C. R. Fish, is on "The Origin of the Spoils System." It deals with the beginning and development of this system under President Jackson and his successors, and describes at length the efforts made by the Senate, in 1864, to check the power of the president. The object of the book is to give a clear idea...
...Talmud is written in classical Hebrew, which is made up of four different Jewish dialects and is smattered, here and there, with borrowed words of Latin, Greek and even Persian origin. Owing to this complex structure, an intelligent study of the book is extremely difficult. Yet the time and energy spent upon the translation of the Talmud is well worth while From it, information is obtained in regard to astronomy and botany, and we see the extensive knowledge which the Jewish rabbis and philosophers must have had in regard to our more modern sciences. But by far the greatest result...
After a few preliminary remarks concerning the place, origin and history of the symbolist movement, M. de Regnier considered the principal schools of poetry which preceded the "decadent" school, sketching briefly the history of French poetry from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the romanticist movement made itself felt...
...Carnegie Lyceum, New York: February 3, "The Kalevala," by Professor G. L. Kittredge, illustrating the Finnish Epic; February 17, "Epic Poems of the Heroic Age of India," and March 3, "Stories of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana," by Professor Charles R. Lanman, illustrating the Sanskrit Epic; March 17, "The Origin of the French Popular Epics of the Middle Ages," by Professor A. R. Marsh, illustrating the Mediaeval French Epic; and April 14, a paper by Dr. F. N. Robinson on the Irish Epic...
...Geological Conference. Papers: Origin of the Fresh water Tertiary Formations of the Rocky Mountain Region. Professor Davis. -- Pseudo-conglomerates. Dr. Jaggar.--Reviews and Notes. Rotch Building...