Word: booked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...edition, with its rough edges and dainty covers. Indeed a more charming little volume could hardly be added to one's library, for the translation is in a happy vein, and the pictures are as quaint and old fashioned as the fables they illustrate. It is just the book to take up after an evening of study, before going to bed; for the fables are short and pointed, and while they amuse, they at the same time instruct without tiring the reader...
...them up and I am sure that many would join in them. If, however, the Athletic Association do not feel like taking the trouble, it would be a very easy matter for two or three men to announce a run for a certain day, and place a blue book in some convenient place for the signatures of those who wish to run, and if sufficient interest is shown it might even be possible to form a hare and hound club to arrange runs and to further the interests of one of the most popular and beneficial sports in college. English...
During the remainder of the year there will be bargains in books. Some book or set of books will be offered at an unusually low price for one day only...
Translations of Heine and Der Zwerg Nase are ready in the book room...
...worked up the subject together, and read extracts from Cellini's very interesting autobiography, and comments on his works by Symonds. The meeting was entirely informal. and Mr. Ross and others often added some interesting word or anecdote to the accounts of the regular speakers. A very fine book of plates illustrating Cellini's most noted works was kindly loaned by Mr. Kiernan from the library. This work is edited by Eugene Plon and is very valuable. The other books used were translations of Cellini's Memoirs by J. A. Symonds and T. Roscoe, and Symonds' Renaissance in Italy...