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...READING FROM WITS AND HUMORISTS. VII. "Boucicault, Sir Samuel Ferguson, Gerald Griffin, Lever, and other Irish writers, in English and in the Brogue." Mr. Copeland, Sever...
...dramatic burlesque, it is also one of the most famous. The ridicule of the piece is directed against the melodramas of the day, and the extravagant romances which the playwrights of the time were producing. "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" appeared a little after the first English translation of Don Quixote, and there is a slight resemblance between the two in their object and manner of ridicule. The play is very cleverly and freely written and has always been extremely popular whenever produced on the stage...
Volume one of the Studies is "The English Patents of Monopoly," by W. H. Price '02, instructor in Political Economy in the University of Wisconsin, who formerly held the position of Henry Lee Memorial Fellow in the University. This treatise was awarded the David A. Wells Prize for the year 1905-06 and is now published in book form from the income of the David A. Wells Fund...
...Department of Classics has arranged a series of six lectures, to be given by Mr. G. G. A. Murray, a well-known English author and dramatist, during the latter part of April and the early part of May. These lectures will probably be given in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, and will be open to the public. They will deal with the history of traditional poetry in Greece, beginning with the earliest Greek poetry and extending to the period of tragedy and comedy...
...subject assigned for 1906-07 is: "A discussion under English, French and German law of the respective rights of parties to a contract, entered into under a mistaken apprehension on the part of one or both of the parties as to its legal effect...