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...Norcross '75 has presented a set of the works of Charles Sumner in 15 volumes, and the following books by Harvard graduates have been presented by the authors: "Address to the Loyal Legion," by H. M. Rogers '62; "List of Angling Book Plates," by D. B. Fearing '82; "Dramatic Index for 1915," by F. W. Faxon '89; "The Greater Tragedy," by B. A. Gould '91; and "Struck by Lightning," by Burton Kline...
...Book of Princeton Verse," edited by Alfred Noyes, Visiting Professor of English at Princeton, has just been issued. Something of the quality of the contents may be gained from the following extract from a review by Katharine Fullerton Gerould...
Professor Kuno Francke, of the German Department, contributes a volume on "Personality in German Literature before Luther." This book contains six lectures delivered in 1915 at the Lowell Institute and subsequently under the Jacob H. Schiff Foundation at Cornell. Its main them is the rise and spread of individualism, together with an attempt to trace in the various forms of literary and intellectual life of the centuries preceding the Reformation a steady line of transition from aristocratic to democratic conceptions of personality...
...Osvald Siren, of the University of Stockholm, who has been lecturing in Cambridge this spring, contributes a book on "Giotto and Some of his Followers." This work gives a detailed and critical consideration of Giotto's paintings and those of six of his school...
Professor George Chandler Whipple, a member of the council of the present State Department of Health, describes the functions of the department in his book, "State Sanitation: A Review of the Work of the Massachusetts State Board of Health, 1869-1914." The annual reports of the board, issued regularly for more than fifty years, and its many special reports cover almost every phase of sanitation and public-health activity...