| Show STUD EXT LIVE Librar Notes The table and chairs which have been placed near the hound periodicals are for the use of debaters and others who are looking for references in the Poole periodicals The library in behalf of the col- lege wishes to thank the professors and instructors of last year's summer school for their generous ji ft 1 lie books presented were mostly fiction published in 1903 and 1904 Palzac’s Comedie Humaine in sixteen volumes was also among the selections Among the hooks recently received as gifts from the United States government is a facsimile of the Jefferson IJible or more accurately “The life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth extracted from the Gospels in Greek Latin French and English ’’byThomas Jefferson These parallel texts are arranged in columns side by side the Greek and Latin on the left hand page and the French and English on the right hand page The sources arc indicated in the margin The edition is an exact photographic copy of the original manuscript now in possession of the LTiitcd States national museum It was purchased in 1895 with the other Jefferson manu ( scripts The volume is beautifully bound in full red leather with gilt tooling Thomas Jefferson said in a letter “Probably you have heard me sav I had taken the four Evangelists had cut out from them every text they had recorded of the moral precepts of Jesus and arranged them in a certain order and although they appeared but as fragments yet fragments of the most sublime edifice of morality which had ever been exhibited to man” “The Story of the Declaration of Independence” is another interesting volume received from the Government It is arranged by William II Michael It contains full page portraits of the signers together with their biographies The other plates are facsimiles of the original draft of the declaration of the first broadside edition a photograph of its present appearance and cuts of the liberty bell the desk on which Jefferson wrote the declaration the steel cabinet in which the original engrossed copy is kept and other interesting objects connected with the history of the signing of the declaration of independence The volume is bound handsomely in full black morocco with gilt lettering |
