Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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From Mrs. Charles C. Smith, of Boston the Library has received two volumes to which interesting associations are attached. One is Antonio de Solis's "Varias poesias sagradas y profanas," Madrid, 1716, with the autograph and bookplate of the poet Southey; the other, Leigh Hunt's copy of Troya's "Del Veltro allegorico di Dante," Firenze, 1826, with manuscript marginal annotations in Hunt's hand. His autograph, from some other source, has been pasted on the title-page. A miniature edition of Solis's "Historia de la Conquista de Mejico," Paris, 1826, in three volumes, is also included...
First editions of Dryden's "Dramatick poesie," Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year," Shelley's "The Revolt of Islam," and "Rosalind and Helen." The latter is a presentation copy from Shelley to Leigh Hunt...
...Goethe's Samtliche Werke, 14 volumes; "The Story of Brussels", E. Gilliat-Smith; "The Law Breakers", R. Grant '73; Hebbel's Samtliche Werke, 12 volumes; Keller's Samtliche Werke, 10 volumes; "The Spur", G. B. Lancaster; "Sir Walter Scott", A. Lang; "A Memoir of Jane Austin", J. E. A. Leigh; "Red Saunders' Pets", H. W. Phillips; "Evolution, the Master-Key", C. W. Saleeby; "The Struggle for Self-Government", L. Steffens; Storm's Sammtliche Werke, 8 volumes; "Fenwick's Career", Mrs. Humphrey Ward; "The Wessex of Thomas Hardy", B. C. A. Windle; "The Land of Heart's Desire", W. B. Yeats...
...Leigh R. Gregor, professor of English in McGill University of Montreal, will give a lecture at Agassiz House, tomorrow at 4.45 o'clock on "American Speech." The lecture will be open to the public...
...Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association will be held next Saturday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, to conclude arrangements for consolidation of the two leagues. A preliminary plan submitted by a committee which met in New York on December 30 will be present from Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Hopkins, Leigh, Swarthmore and Stevens Institute of Technology...