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...Miliman won the prize for a poem entitled the "Belvidere Apollo"; in 1832, Roundell Palmer, now Lord Selborne, won the prize for his "Staffa"; in 1837, Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of Westminster, for "The Gipsies"; in 1839, John Ruskin for his "Salsette and Elephanta"; in 1843, Matthew Arnold wrote the prize poem, "Cromwell"; in 1852, Edwin Arnold, "The Feast of Belshazzar." At a later date, in 1860, J. A. Symonds, author of the "Renaissance in Italy," won the prize for "The Escorial...
That the young gentleman who wrote this editorial should disapprove of the war and of the American government is distressing, but must be borne with patience. That there are good reasons why every young man in the country who has the impulse to enlist should think twice before he follows it we can not doubt; President Eliot has made for us a very clear and noble aualysis of the different motives to enlistment. But two of the ideas presented in the editorial are so novel to a graduate that I can not forbear a comment. The first is the proposition...
...houses, the scene will be the woods, or the interior of one of the houses. This stage setting, as has recently been discovered, was made necessary by the technical rules which governed French dramatists in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but which were falling into disuse when Moliere wrote...
From 1857 to 1869 Dr. Allen was first an editor and then editor-in-chief of the "Christian Examiner." From 1878 to 1882 he lectured on ecclesiastical history at Harvard, and afterwards became editor of the "Unitarian Review." He wrote many interesting books on Christian history and theology, besides many shorter articles which have appeared in periodical literature...
...reading will include a portion of what Thackeray wrote about Smollett in "The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century...