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182 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH
Eugenie, empress of the French. 92 Eg23b
Barthez, Antoine Charles Ernest. Empress Eugenie and her circle;
tr. by Bernard Miall. 1912. Unwin.
"Dr. Barthez was physician to the infant Prince Imperial, and wrote a number of
letters from the Villa Eugenie at Biarritz, to his family, during a space of nine years.
There is in them nothing more, nor less, than a pleasant and shrewd picture of the
family life of Napoleon and Eugenie, extolling their domestic virtues rather than proving
their happiness. The character of Dr. Barthez himself is the most delightful thing
in the book, which is well translated and illustrated." English review, 1912.
Franklin, Benjamin. r 92 F87gb
Buffington, Joseph. A recall of Benjamin Franklin; an address delivered
at Lancaster, Pa. on June 12, 1902, before Theta Chapter of
Pennsylvania of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in connection with Franklin
and Marshall College. [1902.] New Era Printing Co.
Sketches the principal facts in Franklin's life and sums up America's debt to him,
especially in connection with the making of the constitution.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. q 92 G55gch
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart. Goethe; =c£u ^tehst mit unerforschtem
busen geheimnisvoll offenbar iiber der erstaunten-wdt. 1912.
His extraordinary range of general knowledge, his intimate acquaintance with literature
and art, and his marked independence of judgment make him capable of approaching
even such a subject as Goethe with a comprehensiveness and a freshness of outlook.
that are of the utmost value. The volume, which runs to 850 pages, is divided into six
chapters, of which the first gives an outline of Goethe's life, the second discusses his
personality, and the others deal with him respectively as man of affairs, man of science,
poet and sage. Conde?ised from Athenaeum, 1912.
Humfrey, John. r 92 Hg252a
Avery, Elroy McKendree. John Humfrey, Massachusetts magistrate;
did he marry the daughter of the third earl of Lincoln? 1912..
Privately printed.
An answer to the "New York times."
Jones, William, 1871-1909. 92 J4172T
Rideout, Henry Milner. William Jones, Indian, cowboy, American
scholar and anthropologist in the field. 1912. Stokes.
"Writings of William Jones," p.213.
William Jones was the grandson of a white man and a Fox chief's daughter.
Brought up on the plains, educated at Hampton, Andover and Harvard, he fitted himself
for ethnological work among his Indian ancestors. In 1907 he was sent by the
Field Museum of Natural History to the Philippines to study the Negritos and in 1909.
was murdered by a band of Ilongots.
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-73. 92 M4ggc
Corbin, Mrs Diana Fontaine (Maury), comp. Life of Matthew Fontaine
Maury; comp. by his daughter. 1888. Low.
Maury was an American naval officer and hydrographer. Appointed to the
Naval Observatory and Hydrographic office in Washington, he made a study of old
ships' logs, the result of which was a series of wind and current charts that were of~
incalculable benefit to navigators. On the outbreak of the Civil war he cast in his lot
with the South and entered the service of the Confederate States navy.
Michael Angelo. g2 M663r
Rolland, Romain. Life of Michael Angelo; tr. from the French by
Frederic Lees. 1912. Heinemann.
Contains also Poems by Michael Angelo.
"Bibliography," p.192-196.
"Less a biography than a series of essays on the artist's personality, which is a
congenial study for M. Rolland's imaginative and sympathetic mind. Against the picturesque
background of sixteenth-century Florence he draws a striking picture of con-