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...Boston Society of Natural History offers annually through the provisions of the will of the late William Johnson Walker, two prizes for the best memoirs written in English on the subject proposed by a committee of the Society. For the best memoir presented a prize of $60 will be awarded; if, however, the memoir is one of marked merit, the amount may be increased to $100 at the discretion of the committee. The writer of the next best paper will be awarded a prize not exceeding $50. Prizes will not be awarded, however, unless the memoirs presented are of adequate...
Leaving the problems of today's military problems, we turn over a page, and back to a hero of a generation gone--to a short memoir of the lamented Governor John Davis Long '57, whose happy connection with this college is treated warmly in some delightful biographical bits from the pen of Mr. W. R. Thayer...
...Rosenbach of Philadelphia, has prepared a catalogue of this Stevenson collection, and written an appreciative memoir of the late H. E. Widener '07. The basis of this catalogue is the notes and memorandum slips left by Mr. Widener, showing his great knowledge of Stevenson and his work...
...Garland contributes two pieces of verse: one in simple "Wreek of the Hesperus" style, seems strangely old fashioned among its up-to-date surroundings; the other, "Old Books to Read," a happy treatment of a theme that never grows stale. Mr. Bradley Randall's "Memoir of my Dead Past" deals with a phase of experience too remote from the reviewer for him to pass judgment on its truth. But it is clearly the kind of thing that must be handled delicately if at all: and it is hardly suitable material for the experiment of an apprentice. Mr. R. S. Mitchell...
...Delany, A Memoir," George Paston...