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IV. City Government of St. Louis. By marshall S. Snow, A. M. (har vard), Professor of History, Washington University. April, 1887. Price 25 cents. 40 pp.
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The Historical Seminarium is a German Institution. It first came into prominence about fifty years ago, under the direction of Leopold von Ranke2 at the University of Berlin. Ranke sown training at Leipzig had been chiefly philological, and he transferred the seminary method from philology to history. It had long been customary to train philological students by practical exercises in the critical interpretation of classical authors. The discussions were always carried on in Latin. The practice was simply an adaptation of old scholastic methods of disputation to new uses. In seminary priests and in the schools of the Jesuits we have survivals of the lr This paper on Seminary Libraries was written at the request of a committee of the American Library A ssociation, and was presented at their annual meeting held September 6-9, 1887, upon one of the Thousand I slands. By consent of the editor of the Proceedings of the A ssociation, the paper is published in this number of the University Studies, in connection with kindred articles on The Work of Libraries and University Extension. 2S ee article by the writer on Leopold von Ranke, published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1887, Vol. XXII, part II.
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