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...Among the recent acquisitions of the Fogg Museum are three original paintings which were presented by Mr. Forbes. One of them is a portrait of a man by Tintoretto, the subject of which is unknown. There is an early Italian Madonna of the Fifteenth Century, and another unidentified picture of the same period belonging to the Italian or Flemish school. In the collection of antiquities on the first floor of the Museum are two new objects, a vase, and a fragment of a head which are both by Greek artists. The prints of Turner's "Liber Studiorum" and the collection...
...Massachusetts Humane Society, of medals which have been presented by the society and by similar societies in other countries. The other collection was presented to the Library by Dr. Malcolm Storer '85, and is of valuable medals in honor of men upon whom Harvard has conferred degrees. Among the distinguished names are those of Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Grant...
...Among the pieces read will be "Thrown Away," "The German Flag," "The Bell Buoy," "Mary, Pity Women," "Mandalay," "Tommy," and "Fuzzy-Wuzzy...
...collection of French drama; the more important dictionaries and the works of the prominent French writers. For French history, there are the works of Michelet, Martin and Godefrey; for reference and research, "Le Dictionarire de l'Academie Francaise," Littre's Dictionary, Larousse's: "Dictionaire Universel" and "La Grande Encyclopedia." Among the complete sets are numbered those of Corneille, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucaud, Molicre, Racine, Madame de Levigne, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Concerdet, Diderot, Rousseau, Buffon, Beaumarchais, Chateaubriand, Mme, de Stael, LaMartine, Hugo, Dumas, Balzac, Taine and Daudet...
...five collections, the Child Memorial Library is the largest as well as the most valuable. Among its three thousand or more books are numbered the volumes of the "Early English Text Society," the "Chaucer Society," the "Parker Society," the "Percy Society," and the "Shakespeare Society." There are also complete sets of Wycliff's "Latin Works," of Shakespeare, Bulwer, Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," Dickens, Thackeray, Newman, Matthew Arnold, Browning, Tennyson and Stevenson. These are supplemented by many books on general literature and by the books required for reading in the courses on the several periods of English literature. With...