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...most delicious morsels of fictious composition on which the human mind was ever employed. We read it in youth and age--we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature."--Sir Walter Scott. Large quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. Published at $20.00. Constable, Ltd., London. Special Price...
...story of Aucassin and Nicolette was unknown to the general reader in England until Walter Pater first published his "Renaissance." Today it is known and ready by all and is considered the best love story in the world. Quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. A. & C. Black, London. Published at $3.50. Special price...
...experience of human nature. His "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen," "Some mute inglorious Milton," "The rude forefathers of the hamlet," "The paths of glory lead but to the grave," are quoted and loved the world over. The most attractive edition of the "Elegy" ever printed. Quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. A. & C. Black, London. Published at $3.00. Special price...
...Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings" is the title of the first Fogg Art Museum Catalogue ever issued, which goes on sale Wednesday morning. The volume, which contains upwards of 400 pages of reading matter and heliotype illustrations, to the number of 66, is quarto size, sumptuously bound in heavy board with a rich cloth back, and consists chiefly of a careful index of the primitive and Renaissance paintings dating before 1700, which may be seen at the Museum. The book, which is a publication of the Harvard University Press, will be available at the Co-operative Society and other bookstores...
Every essay offered for the prize must be legibly written or typewritten upon quarto size paper which can be bound. The title page must bear an assumed name and the writer must turn in a sealed letter containing his real name inside and the assumed name on the outside...