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...Butcher, after graduating as Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medalist from Cambridge in 1873, was appointed lecturer at Oxford. Since 1882 he has been professor of Greek at Edinburgh. He has also served as a member of the Scottish Universities Commission and of the more recent Royal Commission on University Education in Ireland. As a writer, Dr. Butcher is well known for his prose translation, with Mr. Andrew Lang, of Homer's "Odyssey," for his volume of essays entitled "Some Aspects of Greek Genius" and for his more ambitious work, "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine...
Professor Osler is a member of the Royal Society and of the Royal College of Physicians. London. He is the author of several scientific books, the most important of which is "The Principles and Practice of Medicine...
North American Review--"Centennial of the British and Foreign Bible Society," by D. C. Gilman h.'76: "The Son of Royal Langbrith," by W. D. Howells h.67...
...death, which still stands, though it has been greatly altered internally. This, and the Temple, the former headquarters of the Knights Templar, are the most interesting of the many places of confinement used by the Terrorists. The Temple was the prison of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Madame Elisabeth, Madame Royal, and the Dauphine, and it was thence that the king was driven to his death in January...
...lecturer described the Conciergerie and the Temple, showing plans and views of the cells occupied by the royal captives, and interesting reproductions of sketches and drawings made at the time by persons who had access to them...