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...March. Between $130,000 and $150,000 will be spent on the building itself. Mr. Hunt has designed among other things the Lenox Library, the Presbyterian Hospital, the Tribune Building, the residence of William K. Vanderbilt, lgden Mills, and Henry G. Marquand in New York; the Yorktown Monument; and the pedesdal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Harvard University awarded Mr. Hunt an LL.D. at last commencement...
...John Fiske contributes an historic article, "From King's Mountain to Yorktown;" other articles. of the historical critical-literary character, are by Louise Imogene Guivey and Margaret Christine Whiting on Slr Walter Raleigh and Mrs. Pepys. "Carriage Horses and Cobs' seems a curious companion for Birge Harrison's "New Departure in Parisian Art," and poems by Dr. Holmes, T. W. Parsons, R. W. Gilder and Helen Gray Cone. One other article deserves especial mention, that on Cardinal Newman. The present installments of the serials do not indicate any disposition to set the world on fire...
...Fullerton, Nihilism (from the Phi Beta Kappa oration.)- Phillips; S. A. Bailey, Hamlet, II. ii.- Shakspere; H. E. Fraser. American Taxation.- Burke; I. L. Winter, Peroration of the Centennial Speech at Yorktown.- Winthrop; G. E. Foss, Eulogy on Wendell Phillips,- G. W. Curtis; W. H. Baldwin, Harvard College in the War. O. W. Holmes, Jr.; J. H. Payne, Dedication of the Soldier's Monument.- Garfield; O. R. Hansen, Wendell Phillips first appearance in Faneuil Hall.- G. W. Curtis...
...Noteworthy strategic movements. Movements to the Peninsula. Socalled Siege of Yorktown. Operations before Richmond, especially the defeat of McClellan by a movement on his right flank...
...Controverted questions. Necessity of the siege of Yorktown. Propriety and effect of withholding McDowell from McClellan. What McClellan should have done after the battle of May 31 and June 1. What McClellan should have done when at tacked on his right by Lee, June 27, 1862, etc., etc., etc. Especially question of possibility of McClellan's moving on Richmond by the James, in (say) August...