Word: renan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Schurman of Cornell has issued the following letter: "I regret to announce that A. Abraham, of Brooklyn, has been defeated in this efforts to enrich Cornell University. Mr. Abraham anthorized me to purchase the late Ernest Renan's great oriental library as a gift to Cornell. His offer was on the point of aceptance when Mme. Calmanne Levy, widow of Renan's publisher, telegraphed that she will present it to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris...
...Religion of Nature," in the Friend of Progress. He also published "The Parables: Stories From the Lips of the Teacher, Retold by a Disciple"; "Stories of the Patriarchs," books for children; a manual for Sunday school and home use; besides a translation of the Critical Essays of Renan...
...Bourget's view that Renan is an intellectual aristocrat borne out by facts...
...number of the Monthly issued today certainly attains its object, "the publication of the best literary work of the students of the University." There are only four articles but these are thorough and excellent treatments of subjects full of interest to a thoughtful reader. The leading article is "Renan," by II. Gardiner. It is a long and systematic treatment of the life and works of this, perhaps the greatest of modern Frenchmen. The article gives a short biographical sketch of Renan tracing step by step the development of his ideas and opinions, giving even the hasty reader a clear notion...
...Renan was distinctly an intellectual man without sentiment. He never felt love as a passion...