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Lord Bryce wrote The Holy Roman Empire at 26, which was Ben Franklin's age when he wrote Poor Richard's Almanack. Buskin and Roosevelt were 24 when they composed, respectively, Modern Painters and The War of 1812. John Jay was Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court at 44. Charles James Fox was a junior lord of admiralty, a thorn in George Ill's side, at 21. William Pitt, Britain's prime minister for 17 years, assumed office at 24, having previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. At 20, Alexander Hamilton was a leading authority on government...
...Press and not strictly included in this category should be mentioned Hoppin's "Euthymides and His Fellows" and "A Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases," Beazley's "Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums," Courtney Langdon's translation of Dante, Professor Kittredge's "The Old Farmer and His Almanack," Professor Grandgent's "Old and New," Hillyer's "Sonnets and Other Lyrics," and Phoutrides' translation of Kostes Palamas' "Life Immovable." The Press also issues the Journal of Industrial Hygiene, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Harvard Theological Review. Practically all the manufacture of these publications, except the binding, is carried...
Five books by Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 comprise the fourth section of the catalogue. These are discussions of English Literature from Chaucer through Shakespere, with a digression in the form of a book on "The Old Farmer and His Almanack." The literature of countries other than England is considered in the group headed "Belles-Lettres." A book that has just been put on sale is "Kostes Palamas! Life Immovable," a translation by Aristides E. Phoutrides '11, a former instructor at the University...
...Almanack de Gotha...
...Michelson. "The Life of Goethe," Bielschowsky. "Who's Who," 1906. "History of Criticism," Saintsbury. "The Pardoner's Waller," Crothers. "Voyages," Purchas "Princess Priscilla's Fortnight," Pless. "The Oxford Dante," Moore. "England under the Normans and Angevins," Davis. "Conquest of Cannan," Tarkington. "Cambridge," (medieval town series), Stubbs. Samtliche Werke, Goethe. Almanack, Hachette, 1906. British Almanack, 1906. Stieler's Hand-atlas...