Word: antiquarianism
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...would have been, if the headline under which the newspaper report of the latest expatiation appeared. "Resenbach Bae's With Napoleon's White Breeches," were not more suggestive of fast work by a second-story man than of dignified collecting. One visualizaes, somehow, not a fine old antiquarian, displaying his acquisitions with solemn pride, but an impertinent juvenile, dancing up and down on Sandy Hook triumphantly waving the Imperial Knickerbockers...
...exceeded in size and importance every other colonial library of the time, purchased 96 of these duplicates. Most of these books remained in the possession of his son, Samuel, and the latter's daughter, Hannah, well into the nineteenth century, when they passed into the possession of the American Antiquarian Society. It is this Society which yesterday gave them over to the Harvard Library...
...exhibition of books having some association with personages of early New England history will be held this week in the Treasure Room at Widener in connection with the meeting of the American Antiquarian Society. Editions of manuscripts of Robert Browning and Mrs. Browning will be on view during the week in the Widener Room...
...programmes and the scenery with chairs painted on the walls. Occasionally the characters blare out songs, without provocation. Clare Eames teases her part a trifle, but Walter Abel and Mary Morris are a joy in their monumental solemnity. Its naivete is good fun, for average citizens as well as antiquarian...
...survey of Barracks on Cambridge Common, and from a tribute to Professor Langdell to sketches of the "Regina Bonarum" and John the Orange Man, these papers find their principle of unity in the delightful mingling of seriousness and humor with which they are treated. Mr. Batchelder is the true antiquarian. He delights in pursuing a word, a custom or a tradition to its origin and tracing its history as far as he can follow it. But, having done this he is not content to present the bare result in tabular form; he brings his scattered facts into relation with larger...