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...other three stories, "The Con- version of the Princess Anna" is the best, There is a light vivacious, touch distinctly appropriate to the bit of History's which the author narrates. While "Old Henry's Treasure," and "One in Forty" do not seem to be particularly strong, yet the former has one or two good touches and the latter shows promise...
...living and writing in the seventeenth century, he was possessed with nineteenth century ideas and some of the forms which he sought to introduce into the schools of his time, are still urged by progressive educators, though only recently finding favor and adoption. The following extract from the English version of the proposal of these celebrations gives one a glimpse of his work and character: "Born in Moravia, working amongst Czechs, Germans, English, Dutch, Swedes and Hungarians, with friends in France and Italy, he (Comenius) has won, by his thought, as well as by his life, a universal significance...
...Ransom at the piano is capital, however, as is the exposure of Miss Ames. Although the combination of the sister and stranee chum in the brother's room while he and chaperone have gone out, is old, still Mr. Brown has given the Advocate a pleasantly new version...
...again to be competed for by students in any department of the University or graduates of not more than three years' standing. Four subjects are proposed, all having connection with Dante or his works. The Sargent prize of $100 is offered, this year, for the best metrical version of the sixteenth Ode of the third Book of Horace. Undergraduates in Harvard College and students of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women may compete...
...preface of the first volume Professor Norton sets forth briefly his reasons for choosing prose. The impossibility of adopting the "terza rima" which Dante used because of the paucity of rhyme words in English as compared with Italian throws out all chances of producing an English version of the Divine Comedy, which, even approximately, shall produce the effect of the original. Since the form of the translation must differ in the effect it produces from the original, is it better to use an English metre or English prose? Professor Norton has judged that the literal prose version which the clear...