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After a few preliminary remarks concerning the place, origin and history of the symbolist movement, M. de Regnier considered the principal schools of poetry which preceded the "decadent" school, sketching briefly the history of French poetry from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the romanticist movement made itself felt...
...Carnegie Lyceum, New York: February 3, "The Kalevala," by Professor G. L. Kittredge, illustrating the Finnish Epic; February 17, "Epic Poems of the Heroic Age of India," and March 3, "Stories of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana," by Professor Charles R. Lanman, illustrating the Sanskrit Epic; March 17, "The Origin of the French Popular Epics of the Middle Ages," by Professor A. R. Marsh, illustrating the Mediaeval French Epic; and April 14, a paper by Dr. F. N. Robinson on the Irish Epic...
...Geological Conference. Papers: Origin of the Fresh water Tertiary Formations of the Rocky Mountain Region. Professor Davis. -- Pseudo-conglomerates. Dr. Jaggar.--Reviews and Notes. Rotch Building...
...origin of the title "Twelfth Night" probably came from the fact that it was originally produced on the Feast of the Epiphany. The second title, "What you Will," is a much disputed addition, the most simple explanation of which seems to be that it was given to express the author's ironical discontent at the title "Twelfth Night...
...Geological Conference. Papers: Or Origin of the Fresh-water Tertiary Formations of the Rocky Mountain Region. Professor Davis. -- Pseudo-conglomerates. Dr. Jaggar. -- Reviews and Notes. Rotch Building...