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Kansas University Weekly.
Library Notes.
The books mentioned last week were only a part of Prof. Dunlap's London purchase. There are a number more, almost equally interesting which he "picked up" in that city.
Those interested in the development of the drama will be glad to know of a ten volume work, Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830.
Students of English literature will find very useful Mr. Henry B. Wheatley's London Past and Present, its History, Associations, and Traditions; three volumes. These are filled with allusions to the great men and women who have been associated with that great city.
Two old looking volumes contain the Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, by Thomas Warton, once poet laureate of England, and one of the earliest historians of English poetry. This was a "new edition" in 1807.
Lyrical Ballads, reprinted from the first edition of 1798, contains a number of the poems of Coleridge and Wordsworth as they first appeared, and much interesting matter in the preface concerning their origin.
A valuable work to the antiquarian scholar is a print of Bishop Percy's Folio MS. Ballads and Romances. It is a three volume limited edition, edited by John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, dedicated to the late Prof. Child of Harvard, who is credited with having instigated its publication and assisted in its production. The manuscript is that upon which Bishop Percy based his famous work, the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.
The old dramatists are represented. There are The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, in six volumes; The Works of Sir George Etheredge, Plays and Poems, edited, with critical notes and introduction, by A. Wilson Verity; and The Comedies of William Congreve, two volumes.
There are two volumes from a very handsome edition of Old English Romances. One contains The Old English Baron, a Gothic story, by Clara Reeve, and The Castle of Otronto, a Gothic story, by Horace Walpole. The other, The History of the Caliph Vathek, by William Beckford, and Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, by Samuel Johnson. These books are beautifully got up, printed on laid paper, with proof etchings on Whatman paper, edition limited to 150 copies.
The Bloomer Lark
"Here we are the Women new We are just the jolliest crew."
The Bloomer Lark is incomparable with any other entertainment ever given on Mt. Oread. It was strictly "out of sight."
At about seven o'clock last Saturday evening one hundred and fifty of Mrs. Clark's bloomer girls (Prof. James Merys says the most orderly crowd that has yet assembled) gathered in Library Hall for a jollification. A powerful looking policeman stood at the door and admitted only those whom he deemed worthy.
Library Hall never looked better than on this eventful evening. Little tables covered with the dainty though unelaborate refreshments occupied one corner of the room while another was reserved for the prizes to be awarded later in the evening. The walls were hung with artistic pen sketches and mottos that thrilled the hearts of all who gazed thereon.
Suddenly the orchestra struck up and the grand march began. Then was the time to behold the marvelous beauty and artistic originality of the costumes.
Among the most striking were those of Robin Hood, Buffalo Bill, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Flibertygibit, Sir William Wallace, Miss Sallie Stickinthemud, the bicycle boy and the typical man of the century.
After the grand march some friends from the country rendered most gracefully the waltz quadrille. Suddenly steps were heard from without A hush fell upon the crowd and lo! the far famed'Varsity foot ball team—or rather girls who had assumed the sweaters of the team—appeared led by the majestic Coach Cowan (?). The Rock! Chalk! that welcomed them burst from the windows and fairly shook the roof. In the scrimmage that followed Sanderson (?) was the star player and called forth volleys of applause.