Word: antiquarians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...application of medical science to historical research has already given birth to one fascinating volume. The maladies of Henry VIII, however, have little but antiquarian interest. A more fertile field for investigation offers itself in--contemporary history. If it is true that Napolean lost the battle of Waterloo because, of a stomach-ache it can doubtless be proved that Hindenburg was suffering heart-burns when his famous line was smashed. And in American political life things have come to such a pass that the old stock alibis are quite ineffective; but by replacing them with pleas of wholesale dyspepsia...
...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...