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LAWRENCE (D.H.) The Triumph of the Machine. With Drawings by Althea Willoughby...
...romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues of cedars, and shaded with willows and live oaks and linden, were planted with white flowers-Cape jasmines, bridal wreath, white japonica, sweet alyssum and white althea. In the strange white radiance of Alabama moonlight white flowers-Cherokee roses, the night-blooming cereus, moon flowers and honey-suckle-were sweeter than at any other time. . . . "Yet, against all that tenderness of beauty, in spite of an apparent transcendent peace, the intense heat bred its intensity of emotion...
...classical selections in "Copey's" anthology there is, of course, a great plenitude. The grief of Achilles over the body of Patroclus; the death of Socrates; "Hark! Hark! the Lark" and "Full Fathom Five"; "Lycidas"; "To Althea from Prison"; Gulliver and the Lilliputians; Tristram and the Ass; the Pibroch of Donuil Dhu; "The Rime of the Ancient Mari-er" and "Kubla Khan"; Lamb's "Gentle Giantess"; Edward John Trelawny on how they burned Shelley's body; a great deal of Keats; more Tennyson; still more Thackeray and Browning and more Dickens than anyone...
...Reynolds, Chairman, Miss Pyiscilla Bryant, E. A. Sanford, Miss Althea Payson; Murray Campbell, Miss Anne Waterman; W. C. McFerran, Miss Lottie Connolly; R. W. Lishman, Miss Fannie Chase...
...Sever 11. Selections from the following works were read: Jeremy Taylor's, Sir Thomas Brown's and Lord Bacon's essays concerning friendship; Heywood's, "The Woman Killed with Kindness"; "A Ballad Upon a Wedding," by Sir John Suckling; "To Lucasta on Going to the War," and "Lovelace to Althea from Prison," by Colonel Lovelace; "Sin," by George Herbert; "No Armor Against Fate," by James Shirley; "Shall I, Wasting in Despair," by George Wither...