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...England Magazine for June is an article on "Harvard Memorial Poems" which cannot fail to interest Harvard men. Facsimiles from manuscripts prepared by the authors for this purpose are published of the poems, "Harvard's Dead" by Rev. S. F. Smith, the author of "America,"- the second canto of James Russell Lowell's Ode, recited at the Harvard commemoration, July 21, 1865-and the hymn written by Dr. Holmes for the dedication of Harvard Memorial Hall, June 23, 1874. And there seems to be a special appropriateness in their publication at this Memorial Day season...
...William Tell" pricks the legendary bubble. "Robert Morris" is an interesting resume of a not very interesting career by Frank G. Cook. There are two highwaymen, a mediaeval one by Francis G. Lowell and an American one by R. H. Fuller. John Jay Chapman writes on the "Fourth Canto of the Inferno," Kate Mason Rowland on "Maryland Women and French Officers," Walter B. Hill on the "Relief of Suitors in Federal Courts" and Percival Lowell on the "Fate of a Japanese Reformer." Dr. Holmes continues his tea-cup chat and the number closes with the usual book reviews...
...reading that must be done in English A before next Tuesday is from the works of Alexander Pope. The following are the extracts: Essay on Criticism; Canto II, of The Rape of the Lock; Book I. of the Essay on Man. Book I. of the Iliad...
...with whom he has been partially identified. The poem was discovered a few years ago by George Smith while studying some baked tablets in the British Museum. It is impressed in cuneiform characters on twelve tablets of clay about ten by eight inches in dimension, each tablet containing one canto. The tablets are covered on both sides, and each side is divided into three columns of forty lines each, so that there are seventy-two columns in all. Of the poem about a third has been recovered, which includes fragments of all twelve cantos. Two cantos are preserved almost entire...