Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the President of the John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1900 Professor C. T. Winchester, of Wesleyan University, Conn., gave a course of lectures on the Donovan foundation, his general subject being the Essayists and Reviewers of the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.