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Professor Charles Eliot Norton has made a prose translation of Dante's "Vita Nuoya" which will appear this coming season...
...Harvard instructors which are announced by Houghton, Mifflin and Co., are: A Life of Columbus, by Justin Winsor; the seventh of the eight parts of Professor Child's English and Scotch Border Ballads; a prose translation by Professor Norton of the Divina Commedia, and a new edition of the Vita Nuova; The Silva of America by Professor Charles S. Sargent, the first of a series of twelve quarto volumes...
...another successful party made a collection of the White River Miocene of Dakota and Nebraska. The trip to the Wasatch beds of northern Wyoming under Professor Scott in 1884 accomplished little, but in 1885 and 1886, valuable collections were made from the Bridger country and from the little-known vita fountains of northeastern Utah. In 1889 the seventh expedition secured extensive collections from the miocene formations of eastern Oregon...
...whole world has decisively stamped as the best. These would be Homer, Virgil, aeschylus, and Sophocles and. beyond all doubt, Aristophanes; Lucre tires, and Plato. In the middle ages, the Divine Comedy which has most perfectly expressed their thought and their emotions; the prelude to this, Dante's Vita Nuova; the Life of St. Louis, by Joinville, the Romance of the Cid, and the Arthurian Romances. In later times the number of names really great is considerable. One might give Chaucer, the freshest and most springlike of all poets; Spenser (though with a certain hesitation). and Milton,- a little...
...Dante prize of $100 has been awarded to G. R. Carpenter, A. B., Rogers Fellow, for an essay on "The interpretation and reconciliation of the different accounts of his experience after the death of Beatrice, given by Dante in the Vita Nuova, and the Convito...