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