Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale Letter in Monday morning's CRIMSON announces the institution at Yale of a new and "entirely original" system of conducting a course in English composition. One of the New York papers yesterday contained editorial comment on the same system, treating it as a revolution in the methods of instruction in English. From the meagre description in the "Yale Letter" of the advantages which this new system is to offer, it does not appear that these are essentially different from those which the men in English 22 and English 12 have enjoyed for some years past. Would it be possible...
Several months ago a similar communication was received by the CRIMSON showing how interesting such a course of lectures would be. The subject excited some comment at the time, but nothing was done, and the matter dropped...
...comment of Philalethes, King John of Saxony, accompanying his translation of the poem is of value from its general intelligence and its numerous citations from the schoolmen...
...most important comments for the student are those of the fourteenth century, especially that in the Latin of Benvenutus de Imola, and that in Italian by Francesco da Buti. In his Readings of the Purgatory of Dante, 2 vols., 12mo., London, 1889, the Hon. W. W. Vernon has closely followed and translated Benvenuto's comment to the great benefit of readers unacquainted with Latin...
More is required than any single comment affords, and among the books which may be commended, but which must be read with discrimination, are: A Shadow of Dante, by Miss M. F. Rossetti, London, 1871; A Companion to Dante from the German of Scartazzini, by A. J. Butler, London, 1893 (valuable, but with much questionable speculation and interpretation); Dante's Divine Comedy, its Scope and Value, by Hettinger, translated by Bowden, London, 1887 (interesting, but not always trustworthy); the essays on Dante by Lowell, Church, Caird and Carlyle, in their respective works...