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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...concerned. Of artists now living or of those belonging to the last generation, there is not a trace. Classic art is represented only by a few wood cuts and copies of drainings. The deficiency in modern art might be supplied to some extent by art journals which often contain valuable pictures. But strange as it may seem, the library of Harvard does not possess an art journal. In fact, the only pictures Harvard owns on the illustrations of the art books, limited in number and often so crude as to be of little more than suggestive value...
...filled with moral corruption so that it is a miracle if any escape the disease. Finally, evil is like the arrow of human unmercifulness. Men send this arrow into the souls of their fellows, when they listen to false reports or magnify a slight wrong. The uncharitableness of men often causes a germ of evil to develop into an overpowering disease. There is, however, a moral triumph for all. We can fortify ourselves every day by prayer, by keeping our souls open to influences coming from above. We can shield ourselves in the compassionate love of God, whose power...
...school style of declamation which had its uses some years ago, but which now has lost all hold upon sensible man. What is aimed at in the elocution sections is temperate, exact and adequate presentation, and these are things which it behooves every man to know. How often is the reading of a newspaper article or some paragraph from a book completely unintelligible owing to the wretched presentation of the reader, who has no conception of the proper means of making the matter understood! We hear more slovenly enunciation and villainous pronunciation than we hear careful and correct...
...lines were in red. The date of manufacture can be determined with considerable accuracy by the form of the letters in the inscriptions. The subjects were taken mostly from the Homeric poems and also from other similar epics which are now lost. The artist seldom follows the text closely, often departing widely from it according to his fancy and his knowledge of the limitations of his art, and not from ignorance of the legends. The themes which most attracted the Greek artist were not those which fascinate us, and the treatment of an episode by different artists varied greatly. This...
...Assemblies" of Al Hariri, selections from which were read last night by Mr. Jewett, although one of the greatest works of Arabic literature, are almost completely unknown to the western world. They are written in the most elegant Arabic and are often learnt by heart. The plot is simple throughout, as there are only two characters, a narrator and a clever adventurer, who passes his time in duping kindhearted people by pious speeches. The assemblies are so called because the events related took place before a number of people gathered together. The ninth one describes how the adventurer was brought...