Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...testimonial to Dr. S. w. Smith '29, author of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," will take place today in Music Hall, Boston...
Nodier's "Trilby" was dramatized and popular in Paris long after the book had ceased to be. It was the first book of the great French romantic school of which Victor Hugo later became the great apostle. It was deemed immortal winning for its author the transitory "immortality" of the French academy...
...event which will be of unusual interest to Harvard men is the testimonial which is to be given to Dr. Samuel F. Smith of the class of '29, in Music Hall, Boston, on Wednesday, April 3rd. It is the first formal public recognition of the author of the national hymn. A programme of unusual interest and especial fitness has been prepared and the occasion will be a notable one among many memorable ovations that have been given to poets, authors and public men in this historic hall...
...History of Italian Literature is that of Gaspary (2 vols., 8vo.) either in the original German, or in the Italian translation. Bartoli's Storia della Leteratura Italiana, 6 vols., 12mo., the last vol. published in 1889, may also be recommended, but it is diffuse and the judgement of the author is less sound than that of Gaspary...
Piedmont, Wyoming.A NEW book, "Uncle Sam's Church," has just appeared which bids fair to have a national success, The author, John Bell Bouton, considers the impossibility of a State religion, and advocates a National Patriotic Cult to take its place. To secure this new patriotism the people must have every day patriotic inspirations. The placing of the Federal Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in every post office, the free distribution by Congress of tracts on the lives of Washington (including his Farewell Address), Adams, Madison and Monroe, is but one of the methods to further this cult...