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...life of Christopher Columbus by Dr. Justin Winsor, Librarian of the university, deals with the discoverer of America in a manner essentially different from that of any other author on the subject. The aim seems to have been to present carefully collected facts in a way which will enable the reader to form the most real and accurate idea possible of Columbus as a man. Few men have been more written about and had more romances invented to fill out what they ought to have been, but in this work, special pains have been taken to separate the legends from...
...whole, Dr. Winsor's book throws a new light on the career of Columbus and gives precisely the information that was wanted to fill out our knowledge of him as a man. ["Christopher Columbus," by Justin Winsor, Boston: Houghton Mifflin...
Best general references: London Times, Oct. 8 and 9, 1891; Justin McCarthy in North American Review, Feb. 1891; Black-woods,' March, 1890; Nation, Nov. 20 and 27, Dec. 4 and 25, 1890, Jan. 1, March 5, Oct. 1 and 29, 1891; Contemporary Review...
Vivid and picturesque descriptions of various historic corners of England are those which Mr. Justin Winsor gives in his letter to the New York Evening Post. His last letter to that paper tells of a delightful jaunt through Southwark, the home of John Harvard...
...appended to the annual report of the president, the statement of the affairs of the library merits special attention. The library is perhaps the best managed institution in Cambridge, and most graduates and undergraduates feel a particular pride and interest in it. In spite of the absence of Mr. Justin Winsor the work performed at the library last year showed the usual advance in amount and efficiency. The accessions were larger than in any year before except in 1888; the number of users of books was larger than last year by 192. But the time is very near at hand...