Cambridge University, last week, conferred upon James Loeb the degree of Doctor of Laws. Gentlemen who receive honorary degrees at Cambridge are formally presented by a public orator who chimes their achievements on the bronze bells of a very dead and very beautiful language. The speaker who so served Doctor Loeb began by quoting Pindar. If he misrepresented the Greek, he said, there was one present who had taken great pains to have all authors truly rendered (here there was the graceful flourish of a gowned arm) Mr. Loeb. The bell-ringing orator spoke with as much justice as courtesy. For Mr....
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