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Copyright, 1896, by R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill All rights reserved

THE ADVISORY COUNCIL

CRAWFORD H. TOY, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Hebrew,

Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL.D., L.H.D., Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of

Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

WILLIAM M. SLOANE, Ph.D., L.H.D., Professor of History and Political Science,

Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

BRANDER MATTHEWS, A.M., LL.B., Professor of Literature,

Columbia University, New York City.

JAMES B. ANGELL, LL.D., President of the

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

WILLARD FISKE, A.M., Ph.D., Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures,

Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A.M., LL.D., Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,

University of California, Berkeley, Cal.

ALCÉE FORTIER, Lit.D., Professor of the Romance Languages,

Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

WILLIAM P. TRENT, M.A., Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of English and History,

University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.

PAUL SHOREY, Ph.D., Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,

University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL.D., United States Commissioner of Education,

Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C.

MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Literature in the

Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.