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...many indiscriminate collections of American poetry ad nauseum have been given to the public that it is a welcome relief to find such a careful selection as is contained in this volume. As the name implies, the work is modelled after Palgrave's well-known collection of English verse. Of course it can not be considered such a literary gem as the older book, for the poetry of a new country like ours cannot furnish such a field for selection as that of an older nation. It will, however, serve as a basis of comparison by which American verse...
...Caractere Natural de la poesie lyrique francaise"; Professor A. Chu, late of Harvard, now of Columbia, who will speak January 19 on French Political Life; Professor A. van Dael of M. I. T., who will address the club in February on Maupassant; and Rene Doumic, the well-known critic of the Revue des Deux-Mondes, who will give a series of eight lectures during March on various phases of French Romanticism...
Though he published little (very little for a man of such wide and varied learning) under his own name, he always put his best scholarship at the disposal of his friends. One of the best instances is the work which he gave to the revision of Lewis's (known as Harper's) Latin Lexicon, which, according to the editors preface, bears throughout the marks of his skill and critical scholarship. One of his smallest works, the pamphlet on Latin Proununciation, has indeed worked a revolution which even the learning of a Munro could never even begin in England...
Those who have known this Faculty only in later years can have no idea of the period when Professor Lane was one of its most important members and one of the most constant attendants at its weekly meetings. The Records of the Faculty during the years when he was its Registrar, and those of the Parietal Board when he was its Chairman, not only show his deep interest in the affairs of these boards, but contain many specimens of his humor, some of which now need a scholiast to elucidate them...
...carried out that few realize its extent. It is just such development, painstaking, and without ostentation, which brings success in the long run. More young men are coming to Harvard each year because her field of influence is becoming broader, and her system of eduation more efficient and better known to the public...