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...printed, series. Certainly it is the most comprehensive and within its 857 odd volumes can be found many of the required texts for courses, material otherwise unprocurable except perhaps for a single copy on the Widener shelves. These latest additions to the Library will be welcomed by students of eighteenth century literature and in particular those students who are enrolled in Comp...
...Enghteenth Century Novels contains three works: Samuel Johnson's "Rasselas", Horace Walpole's "Castle of Otranto", and "Vathek" by Beckford. Their interest is more for the specialist in eighteenth century novels and Gothic romances than the first mentioned volume which makes good reading even for those not at all interested in its historical significance. Rasselas in perhaps the best of the three novels and a reading of it will prove the charm of Dr. Jhonson's writing which critics are apt to pass over in their exposure of the novel's faults...
Pronunciamentos on what a college education is and disquisition on what it ought to be have become as numerous and almost as ingenious as arguments about the Eighteenth Amendment. John Erskine has daff'd them all aside and bid them pass...
According to information given out by the museum, the exhibition represents all the principal tendencies in French painting during the Eighteenth Century. A portrait group by Largilliere depicts the change from the Seventeenth Century, and the type of work done during the reign of Louis XIV to the emancipated and freed spirit of the time of his grandson, Louis XV. The court painting of the beginning of the Seventeenth Century is represented in its chief examples by the two pictures by Wateau; several examples of the different styles of Fragonard, still life pictures by Chardin, and a group of contemporary...
...whole time to the field of personnel. At present he is working especially with the United Fruit Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He has recently applied his unique methods to investigating the relation of prohibition to the laboring man. He has come to the conclusion that the Eighteenth Amendment has for the most part been beneficial to the employee...