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...translation into Attic Greek of the passage in Irving's Life of Columbus, Book V, Chapter IV, from the words "Immediately on his arrival" to the end. The other is for a translation into Latin of the passage in Matthew Arnold's "Essays in Criticism," Marcus Aurelius, from the words, "The man whose thoughts Mr. Long has thus faithfully reproduced," through the words, "the State System of Modern France...
...Library has purchased a collection of photographs of the sculptures on the Marcus Aurelius Antoninus column in Rome. The collection is called "Ble Marous-Saule auf Piazza Colonna in Rom." Another recent purchase is a miscellaneous collection of leaflets and pamphlets belonging to Sir Thomas Phillips, issued by the Middle Hill Press in England. The collection relates to matters of interest from a historical and antiquarian point of view. The correspondence of Sir Frederic Madden, relating to his edition of the old English poem, "Havelock, the Dane," has also been purchased...
...Life, Unpublished Letters and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury." The book is the result of years of investigation among old English manuscripts. Dr. Rand considers Shaftesbury the greatest of modern stoies and his philosophy as the strongest expression of stoicism since the days of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. The letters contained in the volume throw much light on Shaftesbury's character and are all in Shaftesburys' best style. It is this portion of the book that is most helpful to the ordinary reader, for it enables him to understand better a great philanthropist, a sound thinker...
...throwing light upon an interesting period of English history. The chief value of the publication, however, centers in the Philosophical Regimen, a new presentation of Stoic philosophy. In speaking of its author, Dr. Rand writes that he is the greatest stoic since the days of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius and that into his own life he wrought the stoical "virtue for virtue's sake...
...Copeland expressly disclaimed any attempt to expound either Emerson or Carlyle with authority. He acknowledged a debt to several books and to the illuminating conversation of Professor J. B. Thayer, who, upon Arnold's comparison of Marcus Aurelius and Emerson as moralists, made the important comment that, although Marcus Aurelius gives the world morality, Emerson gives it morality kindled...