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...arrangement will be after the plan of the British Museum. The fourth floor serves as a broad gallery running about the large specimen room, the centre being left open to better the conditions for light. The gallery will also contain show cases. The funds for this spacious exhibition room were raised by Professor Cook and Dr. Huntlngton. When all the plans have been carried out and the building stands completed, it will be one of the finest museums in the world. Boylston Hall will then be given up entirely to the Department of Chemistry...
...revise it, do not want to change the familiar passages. But in forming a judgment of the Bible, read the preface first. Compare the revised edition,- not with King James' version alone, but with still older ones; and remember that the Bible was not got up as a specimen of English...
...that is owing to the many translations made of it, In reading the English Bible as a piece of literature, read it as a collection of stories that form pieces of literature by themselves. Read the song of Deborah (Judges, chap. v.) as an ode,-as a magnificent specimen of English literature. Read the seventh chapter of Proverbs for a sketch of manners...
ARTHUR J. CUMNOCK.ENGLISH C.- Members of the course will find copies of the specimen brief pamphlet in Sever 35, at 12 o'clock and at 2 o'clock today...
Saintsbury's Specimen of French Literature...