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...HARVARD BOTANICAL CLUB. A Botanical Sojourn Abroad." Dr. A. F. Blakeslee. Nash Lecture Room...
...refer to Mr. John A. Hobson, lecturer in the London School of Economics, and author of several well-known books upon economic theory and history, which are regularly used in our economic courses. Mr. Hobson's "The War in South Africa: its Causes and Effects," was written after a sojourn of several months in South Africa, and, in the opinion of many, represents the most dispassionate, as also the most penetrating consideration that the war has yet received...
...William Morton Fullerton '86, who since graduation has achieved a most enviable reputation in literary work, has just issued his first book, entitled "In Cairo." It is a highly entertaining little volume, being a short series of pen sketches written after a considerable sojourn in Egypt. These who are at all familiar with Mr. Fullerton's work will recognize at once in those vivid and picturesque sketches the charming personality of the writer: while to those unacquainted with the author and his writing, the sketches cannot but prove of more than ordinary interest and profit. The scholarly side...
Lieutenant Horace Carpenter of New Orleans, in his entertaining article on "Plain Living at Johnson's Island," describes the hardships, from the point of view of a Confederate prisoner, of a sojourn in the war prison in Lake Erie, near Sandusky. Only officers were confined on Johnson's Island; and according to Lieutenant Carpenter they were for months at the mercy of hunger and freezing weather...
...Moslem civilization, and particularly of Mohammed and the Koran. He will also take up the history of Mohammedan religious ideas, Arabic literature and the present condition of Arabian affairs. The lectures are the result of the thorough study which Professor Toy has made of the subject during his recent sojourn in Europe. They will be illustrated with the stereopticon which, as many of the pictures which will be shown are entirely new, will make the lectures doubly interesting. They will be given on the evenings of the four Tuesdays in November. No change will be made and as the public...