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...copy of a declaration of a Republic in Iceland in 1809 is of special interest now, as a story in yesterday's papers told of the attempted establishment of a similar republic in Iceland by a group of students...
...ever returned; searching for the source of the Nile (his companion Speke got the credit for discovering Victoria Nyanza, but Burton led the expedition). He made the pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise, went to Salt Lake City in the reign of Brigham Young, made an engineering trip to Iceland, wrote many a book on erotic craft & customs of the Orient. Some spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard Burton," but nobody ever called him a coward or a bore. The East India Company was glad to get rid of such an embarrassingly spectacular servant. Her Majesty's Government...
...collection, which is to bear Professor Schofield's name, was the largest private library in Iceland, and was purchased directly from its former owner, Kristjan Kristjansson, a merchant of Reykjavik, who had spent many years gathering it. It contains works both of medieval and of modern literature but is particularly rich in the modern field. Most of the older books are in the original bindings; there are a large number of rarities and some unique items. Together with the Maurer Collection, given to the University in 1904 by the late Professor A. C. Coolidge, it gives Harvard...
...Irish wit attracts not only those who seek to be amused but also those intellectuals who appreciate "AE" as the man who, along with Yeats, was a leader of the Irish Renaissance. His flowing beard and imposing personality might suggest to many that he was the "Walt Whitman of Iceland." Different as the poetry of the two men is, they both have much the same magnetism and appeal. Many who are already becoming bored with too much reading period in Widener may well find some worthwhile diversion tonight on the other side of Quincy Street...
Today Professor Koht will give the second of a series of lectures in the Lowell Institute. They will all be on Norse folklore, a subject on which Koht is an authority. He remarked, "Tales of Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, even though they may be a thousand years old are still very popular in Scandinavia. They have a peculiarity in that they need no translation to make them modern. They can be read in their original form, provided the reader has a knowledge of the language, and be easily understood, English translations have been made of them, but I am afraid...