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...Letters from Samoa, 1891-1895", by M. L. Stevenson...
...dialect itself does not seem well sustained. Among the contributions in verse "Among the Cedars," by R. P., deserves favorable mention. "The Ballad of the Trenton," by L. W., is a spirited tribute to the officers and men who "met their death so merrily" at the naval disaster of Samoa in 1889. To be sure the poem loses some force from the fact that in reality the "Trenton" sank in shoal water, so that the "merry" death scene is not historical; but there is much virtue in poetic license. The number also includes "A Song," by W.S. Archibald...
...Library has recently received two sets of interesting documents, the gifts of E. V. Morgan '90 and J. Boardman '94. The first consists of all the originals of the consular proclamations, with one or two exceptions, which were issued in Samoa during the recent complications there. Mr. Morgan served as secretary to the American Commission which was sent to Samoa a year ago, and the documents collected by him comprise the proclamations of the English, American and German consuls, notices issued by the Supreme Court and other decrees. Last December he gave the Library copies of several of the proclamations...
...Warren Ethnological Gallery of the Peabody Museum was opened to the public on Thursday. It contains a very valuable collection of clothing, ornaments, spears, models of boats and similar objects collected in Australia, Polynesia, Hawaii, Samoa, the Fiji Islands, and the Northwest coast of America. The collection is now being labelled...
...Pacific. Naturally the group of interested nations will not be pleased to see some one of the group in exclusive control of the common station. Russia, our sworn friend of the past, has for the first time begun to chafe. Germany has mainfested distrust of our chief justice in Samoa...