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...among Harvard's dead is that of Josiah Quincy, '21. The usual minute and scholarly list of accessions to the library follows, many interesting titles being included. History and geography, and law and sociology, are the departments that show the largest gains, a valuable collection of the library in Scottish containing numerous rare titles, being here carefully and minutely catalogued. A collection of the acts of the Scottish parliament dated 1566 is here included. Under "Literature" Dumas' complete works are entered, taking two full pages of the Bulletin. Volume I. of the Harvard Daily HERALD is also here entered...
Next month will be published the second part of Prof. Francis J. Child's work, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads," the first of which has just appeared. Each ballad has a carefully prepared preface by the editor, or one of his contributors, excepting in the case of those ballads which the English have in common with other nations. And of these an account is appended of all related traditions. A general introduction, a careful glossary and full indices will be provided. The edition is printed on large paper, and limited to 1000 copies...
...publication of the first part of Prof. Child's "English and Scottish Ballads" makes an epoch in the history of Harvard scholarship. As the edition is limited the work will undoubtedly increase rapidly in value. The work is elegantly printed in quarto sheets. It is expected that the second part will appear in about a month...
...meeting of the National Association of Amateur Athletes was held recently in New York to discuss a proposed change in the rules of the association. The New York, Manhattan, Staten Island, Williamsburg, American, Scottish-American, Adelphi, and Elizabeth Athletic clubs were represented. A motion was made that the rules be amended so that members of the association be permitted to enter contests in which professional events are included, provided that no professionals be entered in the particular contests in which the members of the association compete. The motion was discussed very spiritedly, and when put to vote was carried, representatives...
...Nation says in regard to Prof. Child's forthcoming "English and Scottish Popular Ballads": "Prof. Childs' qualifications for his infinitely laborious and scholarly task it would be superfluous to descant upon. His purpose, steadfastly adhered to for a quarter of a century, at last bears fruit which will do honor to American literature...