Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editing the works of Gray-a task that had never before been thoroughly undertaken. The poet's manuscripts, were widely scattered; most of them had disappeared, and were found only by extended search through the British Museum, Pembroke and Peterhouse Colleges at Cambridge, the Dicey library at South Kensington, Lord Howden's autograph collection, and various private libraries. At Pembroke College he found three folio volumes of manuscript, unexamined since 1814, containing scribbling of every one of Gray's poems. Some of these were new, among them some Latin poems and a translation in verse from Propertius. This latter...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a plaster cast of Michael Angelo's famous statue of Lorenzo de Medici, called "II Pensieroso," from its attitude and look of melancholy abstraction. It is said to be the second cast ever made, the first having been secured by the South Kensington. Dr. W. S. Bigelow of Boston has given the museum another plaster cast from Michael Angelo - a "Madonna and Child," at Bruges. Casts from the Apollo, Centaurs and women figures discovered at Olympia by the German expedition in 1879 have been added to the fine series already in place. They...
...proposition in England now is that the testimonial to Darwin shall consist of a marble statue in the hall of the Museum of Natural History at South Kensington, London. In the United States, the committee charged with deciding on a form of a memorial to Darwin is likely to recommend the establishment of a Darwin scholarship of biology which will support an American student of biology at the European schools...
...John Jones, the Piccadilly tailor who recently died and bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum a choice collection of art objects, gave also, it appears, the sum of $1,000,000 to another public institution of exceptional worth and desert. At Ventnar, on the Isle of Wight, there was founded, some years ago, a hospital for consumptives, on the cottage system, and to this Mr. Jones has left his $1,000,000. The hospital is one of the youngest in the country and one of the best...
...have read Oscar Wilde's poems, and we feel as if we had spent the day in a boudoir furnished with daisies and cat-tails in Kensington, alternately looking at one of Titian's Venuses and poring over the Song of Solomon and the Lamentation of Ezekiel. - [Vassar...