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...Lewis, of the Class of 1819, M.D. 1822. Dr. Lewis was a well-known physician of Boston, and a member of the Board of Overseers from 1856 to 1868. The collection is a general one, but contains many works on Italian history and travels, including a number of valuable folio volumes of engraved plates. There are also many works on numismatics, and others of interest in English and French literature. Mr. Ernest L. Gay at the same time added to the gift a number of volumes from his own library, consisting of books relating to Napoleon and of English poetical...
...Library has just received as a gift from Mrs. Paine the manuscript copy of the score on which the late Professor J.K. Paine h.'69 was at work at the time of his death. It is entitled "Lincoln, a Tragic Tone Poem," and consists of twenty-six folio pages of music. Professor Paine had in mind for many years this work, which he hoped would be his greatest achievement...
Through the generosity of Mr. E. B. Dane '92, of Boston, the Library has also recently been enabled to make many notable additions to its collections of English literature. A few of the more important of these books are: A folio of Chaucer's Works, printed for Robert Toy about...
...series of tables designed to show the student at a glance the relative importance and historical position of an artist, and to relieve the teacher of the necessity of presenting much routine material, such as dates and other bare facts. The outlines will be bound in large folio form and will be issued early next week...
...Hand's gift consists of about 1420 volumes among which is a nearly complete collection of old folio reports of the Courts of Common Law and Chancery of England, as well as a complete set of the year books...