Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anatole France, who was one of the greatest modern French men of letters died in October 12, at the age of 80 years. M. Gonod was officially entitled in the French government "Conseiller d'Etat", and was at one time a member of the French cabinet. The letters are very intimate in tone, and indicate that there was a warm friendship between the two men. Besides the letters, there are on exhibition some illustrated editions of some of Anatole France's shorter works. The letters have been lent to the library through the kindness of Mrs. E. B. Hill...
MINICK-A microscope on middle-class life which insists that youth and age are incompatible...
...Patrick Hastings, present incumbent of the office, receives a salary of ?7,000 plus fees which usually amount to anywhere from ?10,000 to ?25,000. He is 44 years of age, started life as a mining engineer. When the South African War broke out, he joined up and served until 1901. Home again, he devoted himself to journalism, studied law at the Middle Temple, was called to the Bar in 1904. In 1919 he took silk-i. e., became a King's Counsellor...
WITH LAWRENCE IN ARABIA-Lowell Thomas-Century ($4.00). This is an age when romantic adventure is supposed to be dead. Yet, not ten years ago, Thomas E. Lawrence, young Oxford graduate, archeologist and poet, entered Arabia on leave from irksome military duties in Cairo and left that country some years later-the "uncrowned King of Arabia." For sheer romanticism, coupled with history-making events, surrounded by names which moved the whole world not so long ago, the story that Mr. Thomas has written about Arabia and Colonel Lawrence has not been surpassed during the present century...
Cyril Maude first came to America on account of ill health at an early age. In Denver, Colorado, he made his stage debut in the fall of 1884 as a servant in the popular melodrama "East Lynne". The next year he returned to England and there he made his first London appearance at the Criterion Theatre as Mr. Pilkie in "The Great Divorce Case". Since that time he has appeared in many plays both in England and America...