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Kansas University Weekly.
Library Notes.
Mr. Thomas and Mr. Cloyes, of the Library force, spent the Thanksgiving vacation at their respective homes, Emporia and Atchison.
One thousand books have been added to the Library since September 1. The number in the accession book has now reached 26000.
Miss Dougherty, librarian of Washburn College, and Miss Matoon of the Topeka Public Library, spent Saturday last visiting this Library.
Two boxes of books have been received this week-one from A. C. McClurg & Co., of Chicago, the other from G. E. Stechert, New York. Some of the books they contained are mentioned below:
History of Oratory and Orators, by Henry Hardwicke, member of the New York Bar.
Talks on Writing English, by Prof. Arlo Bates, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A Tennyson Primer, with a critical Essay, by William Macneile Dixon.
The Life and Writings of Turgot, Comptroller-General of France 1774-6. Edited for English readers by W. Walker Stephens.
The fifth volume of Traill's Social England, of which the first four volumes were received last year. This covers the period from the accession of George I to the Battle of Waterloo.
Shakespere and his Predecessors, by Frederick S. Boas; and The Women of Shakespeare, by Louis Lewes. Translated from the German by Helen Zimern.
The Epic of the Fall of Man, a comparative study of Caedmon, Dante, and Milton, by S. Humphreys Gurteen. This is a sort of companion book to his Arthurian Epic which was received last year.
The Laureates of England, from Ben Johnson to Alfred Tennyson, with selections from their works and an introduction dealing with the origin and significance of the English laureateship, by Kenyon West, with numerous illustrations by Frederick C. Gordon.
the Sacred Writings, by Prof. Richard G.Moulton, of the University of Chicago.
The Literary Study of the Bible, an account of the leading forms of literature represented in
Two more books by Alice Morse Earle—Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, well illustrated by Frank Hazenplug, and Colonial Days in old New York. Mrs. Earle has struck a rich vein in the customs and manners of our greatgrandfathers of the colonial period, and she is working it very successfully.
Literary Kit-Kats, by Edmund Gosse. This singular title, he tells us in the preface, is "borrowed from graphic art." Kit-Kats were a form of portraiture used in the last century which "emphasizes the head, yet does not quite exclude the hand of the sitter." These, then, are "condensed portraits, less than half length," of a number of literary characters. Among them we notice that Edward Fitzgerald, Walt Whitman, Walter Pater, and Robert Louis Stevenson appear.
Chemical Notes.
Mrs. F. H. Dinsmoor has presented the Chemical department with a fine specimen of a furnace product from Missouri.
C. B. Highbargin, '87, A. B. and Ph. G., is in the wholesale commission business atCripple Creek, Colorado.
The Pharmacy department presents a busy scene now at almost any time of the day. In the north laboratory the students are doing microscopical work and in the south room they are working on Physiological Chemistry. In the private laboratory Prof. Sayre and Mr. Whitten are struggling with resins, glucossides and an obstinate combustion furnace.
By inadvertence credit was not given Mr. Warren Miller of the Law School for his excellent review of "Callista" which appeared in the last number of the WEEKLY.
Several enterprises are upon foot for the benefit of the Athletic Association, a production of Sheridan's "The Rivals" will probably be among the first.
The theatre going students are patiently waiting the re-opening of the Opera House.