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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Toppan Scholarship.R. A. Small; IV yr.; Modern Lang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Scholarships for 1896-7. | 12/3/1896 | See Source »

...Brooks; II yr.; Modern Lang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Scholarships for 1896-7. | 12/3/1896 | See Source »

John H. Boynton, A. B. 1890, A. M. 1894; IV. yr. Graduate School; Modern Languages (English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Fellowships for 1896-7. | 12/2/1896 | See Source »

Benjamin W. Wells, Ph. D.; Modern French Literature; Boston, Roberts Bros., 1896. In this work Mr. Wells has given both a companion and a guide to modern French literature. The plan of the work is distinctly good. Most of the book is given to tracing the evolution of literary ideals in France since the great Revolution. The chapters on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are consequently introductory to the large scope of the work. Particularly interesting are the chapters on the Romantic School and Hugo. The work is not at all technical, the style is pleasant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Notices. | 11/27/1896 | See Source »

France, said Professor Wendell, had been called the Greece of Modern Europe, and in a certain sense she is rightly called so. By the self-concentration so characteristic of the Greeks she has given us a style beyond criticism; for the French by this self-centred interest developed a rigid self-criticism, which was the parent of an excellent style. Unlike English, we find in French literature no flashes of genius; but on the other hand we do find that consistent mediocrity which the English so strikingly lacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Wendell's Lecture. | 11/14/1896 | See Source »

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