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How to Pick Them. Nine out of ten people who buy reproductions may know or care little about art. They may be housewives in search of a sunset to hang over a mauve sofa and a painted bouquet to match the floral drapes in the guest room, or decorators trying...
Strangely enough. Dodgson believed that the London theater was the nearest thing to Heaven. Again and again he went to performances of what must have been his favorite play. Shakespeare's Henry VIII-"the greatest theatrical treat I ever . . . expect to have." He loved this play 1) because it...
Psychologists have had a lot to say about this Dodgsonian kink. What the Diaries make clear is that immature girls were, to Dodgson, the nearest thing on earth to angelic "spirits of peace." It is easy to imagine his indignation when, on taking a great fancy to little Alice Liddell...
Sometimes she is seen strolling calmly down a corridor with a hippopotamus on a leash. Sometimes she is roasting an ox in her room, or hanging a teacher ("Well, that's O.K.-now for old 'Stinks' "), or merely stretching a chum out on a medieval rack. On...
This week New Orleans will unveil its Kress gift: 31 paintings, spanning four centuries, from the Renaissance's 14th century dawn to the last flowering in the 18th century, and including such greats as Tintoretto, Bellini, Veronese. Two of the finest are Tiepolo's angelic 18th century Portrait...