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...Justin Winsor, the college librarian, who is at present in England, has just written an interesting letter to the Nation on "English Universities in Winter." The letter contains some sketches of the life at Oxford and Cambridge, and tells about the work of some of the prominent university men whom Mr. Winsor has met in England. Mr. Winsor speaks of the barren appearance of the college buildings and grounds at this season when the ivy on the old walls has disappeared and the trees have lost that thick foliage that makes English country so beautiful. The aspect of antiquity...
...Winsor mentioned meeting at Trinity College, Cambridge. Mr. Aldis Wright, who was hard at work getting out another edition of Shakespeate. This new edition will be an enlargement on his former one, with additional criticisms and sometimes revised judgments. Mr. Wright had finished three volumes, the first of which is probably at present in press...
...Oxford Mr. Winsor visited Dr. Murray. in his scriptorium, as they call the building where his great Dictionary of the English Language is being compiled. The building is made of corrugated iron. The inside walls are covered as high as you can reach with shelves. on which stand the millions of slips relating to different usages of words in all phases of English literature. On other shelves are all the leading dictionaries of the language, open at the particular word under consideration, so that comparison may be made without any needless delay...
...Winsor also met Dr. Waldstem, who was preparing to start for Athens, where he will take charge of the American School of Greek Archaeology...
...Marcy, F. Winsor...