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...English gentlemen of the road feed off the fat of the land: they have arrived at a state of well being almost as ideal as that of the Roman mob in the period of Corn laws and competitions in Praetorian generosity. They are given their regular doles of food, and everything is done to make their lives carefree and easy. Now and then the terrible spectre of road-building, railway construction, or shipment to Australia, where good wholesome work is free and plentiful, makes a shadow in their dreams. But so far the bug-a-boo has done nothing more...
Five centuries ago the decimal system of Arabic numerals was struggling for recognition. In 1400 it was generally known through out Europe, and used in most scientific and astronomical work, but many tradesmen continued to keep their accounts in Roman numerals until about 1550, and monasteries and colleges till about...
There followed a series of pretenders to the throne--men like the lesser Roman emperors who fill up the gaps in the annals. At last Beerbohm Tree, in the name of variety, appeared as a red-headed, red-bewhiskered Hamlet, but failed. With no ghost and no Ophelia it is conceivable that a sandy lunatic might have been a great hit. Next the gentle Forbes-Robertson carried off the laurels with a kind of paradoxical, superplussed magnetism. Then, after Southern's admirable elocution and Walter Hampden's colloquialism -- which doesn't at all describe his acting--we come to Barrymore...
...Miller Collection are Roman and Byzantine diptychs, Carolingian and Romanesque book covers and casket panels, and Gothic utensils, both ecclesiastical and secular. Specimens of this class go back as far as the fourth century, from which is the consular diptych of Rufus Probianus. There are also diptychs of Flavius Asturius (fifth century), Areobindus (sixth century), the fifth century Byzantine diptych of an archangel in the British Museum, the front cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald (ninth century), the South Kensington plate of Mary between Isaiah and Melchisedek (ninth century), a tenth century Holy Water vessel from Milan Cathedral...
...Instructor of Church History at the University, will deliver the sixth and last of his series of lectures under the auspices of the Lowell Institute tonight at 8 o'clock in Huntington Hall, Boston. The subject will be "Rome and Carthage in the Third Century. The Ecclesiology of the Roman Church". In the course of the lecture Mr. La Piana will outline the struggle in the Church against monastical episcopacy, with the ultimate formation of the so called classical doctrine in Christian theology which was to affect so deeply the social, political, and religious history of mediaeval Europe...