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There is much about this celebrated college to invite an inspection by travelers and students. It was founded far back in the times of Queen Elizabeth under her auspices. The grounds are large and on them the college sports are held each year; but it is inside that we find most to hold the attention. The dining-hall, like our Memorial Hall, contains quite a collection of portraits. Among them, hung over the entrance door, is a full length of Frederick, Prince of Wales, taken in 1828. Pictures of Lord Caines, Flood, Napier, Lord Kilwarden, who was dragged from...
...weeks ago the queen's scholars at Westminster performed the "Trinummus" of Plautus...
...Queen has made the poet Tennyson a Baron...
...next accession consisted of the library of the Elector of Palatine, captured at Heidelberg and presented to Gregory XV., in 1625. It contained 4,838 manuscripts. In 1658, there were added 1,711 Greek and Latin Manuscripts, from the Library of Urbina. In 1700, the collection of Christina, Queen of Sweden, was added to the Library. It contained most of the literary treasures captured by her father, Gastavus Adolphus, at Prague, Wortzburg and Bremen. In 1745, the library of the Ottobuoni family was added, comprising 3,862 manuscripts. In 1815, after peace with Prussia had been made, Pope Pius...
...life" of Alice, Duchess of Hesse, the daughter of Queen Victoria, is to be published soon...