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Albert Harkness (October 6, 1822 – May 27, 1907) was an American classical scholar and educator. He was professor of Greek at Brown University , and helped found the American Philological Association and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens .
Bret Harte, 1868. The Overland Monthly was founded in 1868 [1] [2] by Anton Roman, a Bavarian-born bookseller who moved to California during the Gold Rush.He had recently published the poems of Charles Warren Stoddard and a collection of verse by California writers called Outcroppings. [3]
The property was designed by Providence architect Albert Harkness and built for William Davis Miller and Mary (Chew) Miller. Miller was a social and civic force in Providence, serving as a trustee of Brown University, the Providence Public Libraries, and as president of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and was a longtime friend of Harkness ...
William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in Common English [3] Robert Browning: Poetical Works, six volumes [3] The Ring and the Book, Volumes 1 and 2 this year; a total of 12 books and over 21,000 lines published this year and in 1869 [3] George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), The Spanish Gypsy [3]
He was ordained deacon in 1825, and priest in 1826, and held the office of college tutor from 1822 to 1834. He was Fellow of Corpus Christi College from 1823 until his death in 1869; he held the college posts of Latin reader in 1824, junior dean 1825, Greek reader 1827, librarian 1830, and vice-president of his college from 1840 to 1869.
January – Émile Zola defends his first major novel, Thérèse Raquin (), against charges of pornography and corruption of morals. [1]January 4–August 8 – Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel The Moonstone: a Romance is serialised in All the Year Round (U.K.), being published in book format in July by Tinsley Brothers of London. [2]
Jose Carlos Mariategui, the most important Marxist thinker in Latin America, due to a chronic illness was absent from a proper education, both school and university. However, he changed the lack of formal studies into an advantage and developed a self-taught capacity, which made him a voracious reader contributing to mature promptly, as he ...
The Book of Soyga, also titled Aldaraia, is a 16th-century Latin treatise on magic, one copy of which was owned by the Elizabethan scholar John Dee. After Dee's death, the book was thought lost until 1994, when two manuscripts were located in the British Library (Sloane MS 8) and the Bodleian Library (Bodley MS. 908), under the title Aldaraia ...