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signed to him. On this he built his 1 house, a stones throw from the build ing in which he performed his minis teral duties, and in a little more than
 a year he died, presumably of con sumption, leaving his library and one half of his estate to the new college
 at Cambridge, which the General Court
 has planned and which was to per-
 petuate his name.
 All the library, except one volume,
 entitled Christian Warfare" was de-
 stroyed in 1764, when Harvard was burned. Nt|
 It was when near his S0th birthday
 on Nov. 6, 1887, that young Harvard
 and his wife Joined the church at
 ChGrlestown in full fellowship, and at
 the same time he became it's teacher,
 "to explain and defend the doctrines of
 Scripture" All the records of Har-
 yards life in this country are careful
 ly set down by Mir. Shelley. together with many other details tnat reveal
 the life whereby he was surrounded
 here and the vast social and personal
 changes involved in his transfer from 1 one country to another Having with
 stood the severity of one New Eng land winter, he and his wife may have
 had good hopes that he would survive
 many more, But destiny had ordered | it otherwise, and on Sept. 14, 1888, the 1 last member of that Southwark home l passed away. He left no will; at any
 rate, no such document has survived. | Yet Harvard was able to make it per fectly clear to his wife and his friends that one-half of his estate and the
 whole of his library should be given
 to the new college at Cambridge, little
 knowing that that deathbed bequest
 was to have such momentous results.
 Mir. shelley's closing chapter speaks
 of the words of eulogy that John
 Harvard's memory has received in the
 two and half centuries that have
 elapsed since his death and among the
 many tributes perhaps the most fitting
 is this delivered by the Rt. Rev. Man dell Creighton at, the two hundred and
 f1ftieth anniversary of the founding of
 the university ITO me-, he said, "the
 solitary figure of the unknown scholar,
 from whom you take your name, has
 a special significance through it's very
 indistinctness. To some it is given to
 work out their ideas through long
 course of intellectual production or
 public service; others can only ex-
 press themselves in some one decisive
 act. We know enough of John liar , vard's character to justify our admira- tion; we know that he was devoted tc the spread of learning and the promo tion of the public welfare His munii- cence was applied to further the ob- : feet of popular aspiration. What the | scanty revenues of the country coult lscarcely compass was accomplished by , the example which his hopefulness sci
 forth. He was at once 8 scholar 6
 Statesman a philanthropist; mar
 Ewhom Emmanuel may be proud tC ' have trained and Harvard may bt : proud to recognize as her founder. |
 matters not that John Harvard canno : be shown to have been man of socla | or intellectual distinction. It may bt ' that John Harvards teachers shool . their heads sadly over an awkward laC
 who sat silent in their lecture rooms ? but the name of John Harvard's teach II CTS are, l fear forgotten, while Joht y Harvard's name lives and Is veneratet U to-day, and, judging from to-day's en Il thusiasm, is likely to live through thu y i long future of this great university For John Harvard learned a lesson be u yond what his teachers could i1npart
 i his fine sense caught the spirit of tn
 institution which had inspired his in z tellectual lie, and with the strength O X that spirit he could inspire others" II Mir. Shelley has enriched his / bool ' with portraits of Harvard's contem ' peraries, their arms set beneath thel : staid and solemn "effigies"; with pic !" lures of dwellings and churches con : nected with Harvard's life and a maj . of the Southwark of his time, an
 | Messrs. Little & Brown have boun
 the book in deep rose-red and gold , with the arms of Harvard and Elm r, manuel College, Cambridge, upon tn Il cover, and the text is very handsome ' ] ly printed
 ' MT. shelley's book is particular n timely as in the Summer of 1904 IT, memorial tablet was placed in tn .- chapel of Emmanuel College, Can, :, bridge, to record in England the grat tude of Harvard men to their founde z and in the spring of 1905 the Chap .a of St. John the Divine in St, Sat ,d tours Church, long used as a vestr, "a was restored by the men of Harvar
 fba 0araa of ha IJor x ,o Memorial chapel. A window designe .a by John La Farge was placed in tf ~ chapel, and the handsome old ehurc l.. neighboring a market that is brigl 7, with color on a summer morning, an ,o keeping an aspect of historic dignit .4 amid the din of Southwark traffic 1o already the goal for hundreds. of Anne oe jeans in London keen to link our NJ = '. tional associations with those of u = older world.
 ed LITE IN THE HoMERIC AGE" 1 e. Thomas Day Seymour Hillhouse Profe nv sor of the Greek Language and Lite oH ature In Yale University; the Ma all milan Company, New York
 dv The authors name is guarantt of that the work before us has bet he thoroughly and carefully done IT ne title is perhaps not quite so defini e. as might be desired and it is only 1i- reading his introducto~s passages tn m- the real object of Professor Seymo, ets is clearly set forth Here he stat mt what are not the subjects he treats o is- "A handbook which endeavors to co ol- CT the whole field of Homeric antiqu Ire ties, must be content with registeril ,is +ha most innnortant facts in regard