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...print collections have been considerably augmented. To the Gray Collection have been added, by purchase with the income of the Gray Fund, Calvary, a woodcut by Durer; Prophet Jeremiah, a copper-plate engraving of the Baldini-Botticelli series; and a reproduction of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. To the Museum Collection: Rivers of England, 18 prints (engraved in mezzotint after designs by J. M. W. Turner), by J. Bromley, T. Lupton, G. H. Phillips, S. W. Reynolds, W. Say, and C. Turner, a gift from Miss Elizabeth G. Norton; a portfolio of 40 prints, engraved in mezzotint and stipple, facsimiles...
...Varsity comes to us from Toronto, its cover adorned as usual with a cheap woodcut of a youth and a maiden, who have apparently just had a fight, and are standing back to back. Whether this is intended to be an allegory upon co-education we are not able to say. The articles, like those of most English college papers, are heavy and to us unentertaining...