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...book, written by an Italian of the sixteenth century, describing the story of the nativity is placed in a case beside Milton's poem "On the Morning of the Nativity" offering an interesting contrast in the literature of two nations and two centuries. Several reproductions from the Book of Hours of Joan 11, Queen of Navarre, offer further opportunity to study the fourteenth century style of illustrating the margins of books. The entire collection, most of which is reproductions of the work of the monks of the medieval times is interesting as well as beautiful, for the sketches and drawings...
...Sixteenth Century. Orlando knelt in crimson breeches, offering the Queen a bowl of rose water before she dined. He saw her crabbed sickly hand flash with heavy jewels; she saw his dark curls bent so reverently, and that night deeded him the great monastic manor that had belonged to the Archbishop, then to Henry VIII. Orlando scribbled five-act tragedies, a dozen histories, a score of sonnets, until the Queen summoned him to Whitehall. Chains of office, jewelled Garter, sad embassy to the Queen of Scots, but from the bitter Polish Wars Elizabeth detained her darling. Her old heart broke...
...Fogg Art Museum opened a new display last Saturday, the most interesting paintings being a collection of watercolors by Homer and Sargent. A valuable Sixteenth Century tapestry depicting Hercules against a verdure background, the gift of Augustus Hemenway '75, has been hung in the great hall. This tapestry is particularly good in design and distinct in color...
Among the other speakers will be Frank J. Manning, Socialist candidate for United States Congressman from the sixteenth Massachusetts district. Mr. Manning comes from a strong Socialist district. He has been president of the Boston Educational Forum and is on the executive board of the Young People's Socialist League. A member of the defense committee of the Sacco-Vanzetti case, he also was appointed confidential secretary of the general strike committee of the New Bedford Textile Council...
...Maya civilization flourished in Central America before the coming of the Spaniard and their subsequent conquest of the country. It dates from the birth of Christ to the middle of the sixteenth century. The Carnegie Institution of Washington has chosen two fields of research, the first at Uaxactun in northern central Guatemala and the second at Chicen Itza in north-eastern Yucatan, Mexico...