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...NATIONAL AFFAIRS), N.Z.Z. characteristically handled it in a short wire-service story at the bottom of page two. It covered page one with a leisurely account of the opening of the British Parliament, a long book review of the third volume of Fritz Valjavec's ten-volume Historia Mundi and a discussion of German-Russian relations...
...bottom of the sea five or six miles from shore. In April and May they move shoreward to feed. In its old age a lobster may reach the length of 23-75 in, as did one caught off the New Jersey coast in 1897, weight 34 Ib. In his Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (Rome, 1555), Olaus Magnus states that between the Orkneys and the Hebrides lived lobsters large enough to squeeze a swimmer to death...
Professors F. P. Magoun, Jr., for aid in editing the Historia de Preliis Alexandri Magni, recension, J-3; John Tucker Murray, (for the Department of English) for a volume in the series of Harvard Studies in English; C. R. Post, for aid in gathering further material for the fourth volume of "History of Spanish Painting"; E. K. Rand, for assistance on Volume H of "A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours", on a book on Virgil's influence on later literature, on an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, on a volume to succeed "Founders of the Middle Ages...
Books. Anyone who reads Spanish should read these outstanding Cuban .books: Novelist Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes; Poet Jose Maria Heredia's Niagara; Scientist Carlos de la Torre's Historia Natural de Cuba...
...General y Natural Historia de las Indias" was first published at Toledo in 1526 in the form of a summary entitled "La Natural Hystoria de las Indias." The first copy of the "Historia General de las Indias" was published in 1535 at Seville. Written in a diffuse style, it embodies a mass of curious information collected at first hand. This book, on exhibition now, ends with an epistle addressed, "Al reverendissimo e illustrissimo senor el cardenal de Espana don fray Garcia Fofre de Loaysa," and it is signed by the author...