Word: antiquarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...auction in Manhattan of the library of the late antiquarian Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry, Bookdealer Gabriel Wells paid $9,750 for a First Folio edition of Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies...
...Morgan, Jr. '89 has given Widener 86 volumes of the works of Thomas Hearne, an English antiquarian of the 18th century...
These difficulties should be remedied by the prompt purchase of more of the texts required. There seems to be no good reason why the shelves of the house libraries should be further stocked with best sellers or ancient tomes of interest only to the occasional antiquarian while fundamental text-books are inadequate in number. Nor does the existence of more complete libraries like Boylston and Fogg furnish any excuse for compelling the inquiring student to wallow through several blocks of New England weather to cover his weekly reading assignments...
These elephantine tales come from Mr. Robert W. G. Vail, librarian of the American Antiquarian Society--formerly headed by President Calvin Coolidge. America's circus history, Mr. Vail says, began in 1720 with the arrival in Boston of a "lyon." Devotees of the "big top" first suffered a setback when "Old Bet," the second elephant to reach this country, was shot by a Maine farmer because the manager's receipts from admissions were drawing money out of the Pine Tree State. But "Little Bet," soon to follow, had a hide "so thick no bullet could pierce it." Some young pranksters...
More interesting to musicians than Arnold Dolmetsch's reconstruction of old-time instruments is his research into early music. When he gave his first concert 45 years ago the oldest composition Antiquarian Dolmetsch played dated from the 17th Century. Believing that the past could offer more pungent novelties he studied tirelessly, rediscovered the formal counterpoint and chromatic modulations of the Renaissance. Deciphering manuscripts of Perotin le Grand (circa 1200) revealed a forgotten treasure of intricately constructed works. Moroccan musicians in 1929 taught Dolmetsch the secrets of traditional Andalusian music which influenced 11th and 12th Century European composers...