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...Fitzmaurice-Kelly has come from England to lecture in this country under the auspices of the Hispanic Society of America. He is the author of a "History of Spanish Literature," which for scholarship and thoroughness takes rank as the best work on the subject yet written, and has already been translated into Spanish and French. Among his other works are "The Life of Miguel de Cervantes Laavedra," "Cervantes in England," an edition of the text of "Don Quixote," and "Lope de Vega and the Spanish Drama...
...verse does not call for extended comment. E. E. Hunt's "Autumn" gathers pleasingly a bunch of characteristic detail. The author's sense of smell seems to be exceptionally acute. Most of us would find it hard to describe the odor either of a swarm of bees or of a maiden-hair fern. In "The, Golden Calf" Mr. Pulsifer expounds a false idea. Many men are neither the slaves nor the masters of money--professors, for example. F. Biddle's quatrain is expressed with neatness and restraint, and "The Wind" by Mr. C. P. Aiken is the most imaginative thing...
...Rayadere." L. Simonson's "Death and the Young Man" is a fairly successful attempt at a modern reproduction of the "Dance of Death," a difficult task. There is an atmosphere of weirdness and mystery about the showman and his tent in the great forest; but the author fails to vitalize sufficiently the figure of the young man. "The Inevitable," by E. B. Sheldon, is a pleasing little sketch portraying in symbolic form the passing of childhood. The only fiction in this number is "The Man Who Won," by H. B. Child. The story has a good climax, but the characters...
Professor Rossier has held his present position at the University of Lausanne since 1891. He received his education at Vevey and Lausanne, and at the Universities of Berlin and of Paris. He holds the honorary degree of Ph.D. from the University of Erlangen and is the author of numerous historical articles, published in the Lausanne Gazette...
Poems submitted in competition for the prize should not exceed fifty lines in length, should be signed with an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the real name of the author and super-scribed with the assumed name. Competition for the prize is open only to undergraduates in the University. Manuscripts offered in competition should be left at University 20, with the Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, before April 15, 1908. Professor Barrett Wendell is acting chairman of the committee which has charge of the awarding of the prize...