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...Museum has recently placed on exhibition a small but beautiful Turner oil sketch on paper, which is a temporary loan from Mr. William Emerson '95, of New York. The subject is a wood interior, and the difficulties are handled with rare skill by the master...
...rare and valuable picture of Geoffrey Chaucer, the English poet, which was bequeathed to the Harvard College Library by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, has recently been placed on exhibition in the Fogg Museum. The portrait was at Llanshaw Court, in Gloucester-shire, for more than three centuries. It bears a close resemblance to the only known authentic portrait of Chaucer, the miniature in Occleve's "De regimine principum," written in 1411-12, and also to a later full-length portrait in another British Museum manuscript. It has been known in recent years as the Seddon portrait. Mr. James Loeb presented...
...second Noble Lecture on Dante which will be given tonight by the Rt. Rev. William Royd-Carpenter offers to members of the University an opportunity to listen to a speaker of rare profundity and eloquence. Those who attended the previous Noble Lecture or who have listened to Bishop Royd-Carpenter in Chapel have been impressed by the depth of his learning and his great human understanding. Aside from the appeal of his personality, the subject of his lecture, Dante, should attract men interested in literature and philosophy...
Through the will of Francis Bullard '86, late of Commonwealth avenue, the University has received some rare and valuable presents. To Harvard College is given a rare series of Goethe's "Faust," which is to be added to the Charles Eliot Norton collection of books in the College Library...
Among the purchases are manuscripts and volumes written by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert (1470-1538), an English jurist who served as Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for many years. The copy of his "Natura Breviu," is a sound and perfect copy (1519) which is said to be very rare. Besides this volume, there are: five samples of the work of Sir John Fortescue (1394-1476), an English lawyer who sat on the Chief Justice's bench in the King's Court in 1442; many copies of tenures written by Sir Thomas de Littleton (1407-1481), an English and legal...