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...clock.--Fogg Museum: "Graeco-Roman Sculpture", by Professor G. H. Chase, Fine Arts...
After a hectic tour of America, the mighty Marshal of France is safely aboard his steamer homeward bound. He returns like a Roman Emperor back from the wars, laden with trophies of every conceivable sort. His triumph beggars description. But unlike most men their duty is done, he need not fear for his future. If he wishes to set up as a lawyer, he has more than a score of LL. D. degrees, conferred by the highest universities of the land-surely no one will question his competence to serve at the bar. Or if manual labor has a stronger...
...judge him as anything but a hero of an "heroic biography". The translation of Eden and Cedar Paul is often annoying with its endless inverted sentences, its florid and over elaborate style, its frequent tendency to melodramatize prose, which must have been stately and flowing in the original. But Roman Rolland is a book to be read, and reread as an engrossing lesson in the art of living
...introducing the speaker President Lowell declared that there had been no man who had attracted so much interest by books written fifty-eight years apart as has Viscount Bryce by his "Holy Roman Empire" and "Modern Democracies." The first was written in 1863, two years after Viscount Bryce attained first honors in both the Classics and History; while the second has recently been published. President Lowell also said that Lord Bryce was one of the favored of the gods, in that he was one of the men that would always die young...
Among Lord Bryce's numerous works are: "The Holy Roman Empire," "The American, Commonwealth," "Impressions, of South Africa," "Studies in Contemporary Biography," and "Modern Democracies," just published...