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k&S' . utMiiuHiMBmaaaigiWfl 0 NO. 1. I,OCAIj NEWS. 10 ,ifamm.i'H mustor courage to cope with those form, idablo stairs. Try it. Prof. Church during his Into visit to Europe, miulo soino very valuable addi tions to the librnry. He procured about 150 volumes, aiming to secure all the Latin literature of any importance extant. All the classic authors arc included be sides many works treating of the history of Romo and Greece. There is a " Die tlonary of Iloman and Greek Antiquities," valuable for its many exact illustrations. "Rome and the Campagna," a flnely il lustrated work giving the history of Rome and treating of her archelogy and topography. This work gives tho result of all excavations up to the present day with exact illustrations of tho city as brought to light by the excavation. Mer rivalc's " General History and Regal His tory" completes the series of works on Roman History already in the library. Then there are some small volunms of special studies as "Early Rome," "The Early Empire," "The Griuchi" etc. An interesting and instructive volumnc is a classical "Album of Illustrations." An other rare work is a volume edited by Orclli, giving all the inscriptions which have been found. There arc also three volumes containing respectively the entire worus of the historians, the poets and the orators of Greece and Rome. Re sides all these there are Couuingtou's miscellanies in two volumes: "Young's Latin Grades;" a number of Mommscn's and Halm's works and mauy others, giving the students an opportunity to be. come thoroughly posted on classical sub jects. Tho llrst lecture given under tho aus pices of the " Students Lecture Associa tion " was delivered b' Chancellor Fair lield at the Opera House on the evening of the 27th. His subject was, " A Winter in Italy," and the easy pleasant way in which the lecture was delivered made the time seem but a very brief period though the lecture was of the usual length. He began with Venice, with its streets of water and its lloaliug carriages; long ago it was customary to expend great sums of money on the ornamentation of gondolas, So it was enacted by the government that gondolas should be of one color, and that color black, and sombre is the c licet and dreamy the sonsation when gliding among these funereal looking boats. A guide tonic them to tho very banking house oc cupied by Shylock, and for a franc it is possible at any time to sec anything that ever existed or never existed as tho guide may please. Ho spoke of tho pigeons that Hocked to the pubic square where for 300 years, according to tho provision of a strange will, three bushels of barley per day had been fed to them. Tho sound of a horses hoof is never heard in the city Tho church of St Marks with its -10,000 square feet of Roman Mosaic and tho Bridge of Sighs were mentioned. Then passing to Verona, he described the Am phithcatrc,1700years old and able to accom odate 25,000 persons. The great Cathc- dnil at Milan next claimed the attention of the audience. Tncre arc three great Cathedrals one at Strasburg, one at Col ogne, and one, the greatest, ait Milan. It has been in process of erection for 500 years, and is not yet complete. The cost is said to have been $500,000,000, but half that sum would proably be nearer the truth, It covers two acres and is built of Italian marble. It has 130 steeples and 7,500 statues and statuettes, all executed by the best artists. Genoa was visited and then Florence whoro are shown tho houses of the Medici, Micluul Angelo, Dante, and Galileo. He told of the ascent of Vesuvius, and his accepting a banter to run down the cone, on the outside of course. How, according to the language of the guide ho "saw tho smell" in the cave of the dogs. The lecture closed with a description of a visit to the studio of Hiram Powers. There was a good audi ence and they were ccetalnly highly en tertained. Prof. Collier delivers a lecture on Friday evening, on " Molecular Forces," I' . ' ii i iw IIIBMMiMHirilffiBirrinrPi 1 1 --v-"-ryV Trrim "i WHfti i i. Hi
