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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. As its title shows, the book is a study of Hamlet, and of Shakespeare's environment, with the object of showing that the mad scenes now played had a comic aspect now ignored. Mr. Corbin's general point of view is that Shakespeare only wrote the drama for Elizabethan audiences. They, in their time, saw jest in what would seem to us only the severest tragedy. What he wishes to get at is the comedy in Hamlet according to the Elizabethan point of view. Charles Scribner's Sons will publish...
...view of the coming changes in the Library, the librarian has been much perplexed by the question of what to do with the 100,000 volumes reserved in the reading room. All these books will have to be moved before the work of alteration can begin, which will be about the first of July. The process of moving so great a number of books is very laborious and cannot be accomplished in less than three weeks. The present plan is to fit up Lower Massachusetts as a temporary reading room and to deposit the reserved books there...
...view of the fact that two of Professor Norton's lectures occur on the same evenings as those of the course on the Natural History of New England, the dates of Mr. Ward's and Professor Goodale's lectures have been changed and will...
...thought, nor in expression. Each of these poets, however, showed to us the scene of life without the interference of their own personalities. They showed us nature as reflected in a mirror. Dante is both a poet and a moralist. He is not content to give men a reflected view of life alone, but he uses his mirror as a medium through which to lead men on to righteousness. He is the chief poet of the higher inward experience of man. In order to understand the character of Dante it will be necessary to consider his surroundings and the tendencies...
Sanskrit Conference. General View of the Field of Indic Philology. Professor Lanman. 9 Farrar...