Word: christina
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Professor Lumboltz of the Academy of Science of Christina, Norway will give this evening, in the lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, an account of his most exciting adventures among the cannibal aboriginees of Australia. His experiences have been the subject of several interesting addresses in England and in this country, made doubly so by the illustration of the lecture with Australian views. Although the notice of Professor Lumboltz's address has been made rather suddenly, the variety and peculiarity of his adventures should cause a considerable number of persons to desire to hear him this evening. The lecture...
Among the contributors to the May Century, we find Julian Hawthorne, Henry James, Charles Waldstein, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, John Burroughs, Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Philip Bourke Marston, George W. Cable, Robert Grant, Austin Dobson, H. H., Frank Stockton, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hughes, Christina Rossetti, Andrew Lang, and R. W. Gilder. The mere mention of these names is sufficient to show the interest of the number. Henry James' new sketch is certainly an international one, if its situation in London and its reference to almost every one of the larger American cities can make it such ; still it is, like...
...next accession consisted of the library of the Elector of Palatine, captured at Heidelberg and presented to Gregory XV., in 1625. It contained 4,838 manuscripts. In 1658, there were added 1,711 Greek and Latin Manuscripts, from the Library of Urbina. In 1700, the collection of Christina, Queen of Sweden, was added to the Library. It contained most of the literary treasures captured by her father, Gastavus Adolphus, at Prague, Wortzburg and Bremen. In 1745, the library of the Ottobuoni family was added, comprising 3,862 manuscripts. In 1815, after peace with Prussia had been made, Pope Pius...