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Civil War Songs (Tues., 6:30 p.m. CBS) of abolitionists, slaves, election campaigns directed by Musical Antiquarian Elie Siegmeister, sung by Soprano Helen Marshall, Tenor Charles Haywood, Bass Daryll Woodyard, Baritone Hubert Hendrie and a male quartet...
Revolutionary Songs (Tues. 3:30 p.m., CBS). The Liberty Song, Bunker Hill, The Toast, Lamentation over Boston, Ode to Fourth of July resurrected from 18th-Century manuscripts by Antiquarian Elie Siegmeister, sung for the first time on radio by Soprano Hollace Shaw, Tenor Charles Haywood...
...Dorchester, England, last week, items from the Hardy family collection were put up for auction, including two bits of Nelsoniana. One sentimental antiquarian bid nine guineas (about $47) for the manuscript of the Trafalgar prayer. Hottest bidding, however, was over a wisp of hair, which the auctioneer swore had been cropped from Nelson's pate by his vivacious and tenacious mistress, Lady Emma Hamilton. The seadog's wisp was knocked down...
...historian and antiquarian the almanac is invaluable. As the practical earmark of a basically practical age, it reflected the life and manners of the colonial period. The almanac was, as it were, the tone of American life until 1800. When the number of colonial printing presses multiplied and the cost of publication dropped as a result, the almanac lost its influence and significance. When it became a relic, it was used ignominiously...
...seeing the present is to look at its reflection in the past. This is Lion Feuchtwanger's method. The Pretender, his third novel of the Roman Empire, is not an antiquarian romance. It cannot be called a strictly historical novel. Readers will not need the reminder from Ecclesiastes that Author Feuchtwanger quotes: "Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us" (1 :10) to realize that much of the action of The Pretender parallels present European events. To give himself a freer hand, Author...