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Alcide Tombarel, artist, manque, aristocrat, judge of good wine, is the hero of Author William J. Locke's latest book. Tombarel, an artist who had not been able to make his hands behave, gave up art for surveying, then became Mayor of Creille, tiny mountain village in the Maritime Alps," not far from Nice. There he ruled supreme, a benevolent despot. Fontenay, an English painter, meets Mayor Tombarel, falls under the spell of his courteous, charm, becomes a frequent visitor, a fast friend. In the shady garden of Tombarel's mountain house or in Fonte...
...surrender his arms (May 26, 1865); Joseph Wheeler from Alabama, second only to Stuart as a cavalry general, who lived long enough to command U. S. troops as a major-general of volunteers at the Battle of San Juan in the Spanish War; Wade Hampton from South Carolina, aristocrat and planter, leader of "Hampton's Legion" at Bull Run, commander of Lee's cavalry after Stuart's death...
...smooth, well made, is a never-ending source of wonder to those acquainted with the facts of his career. For Nicolas Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov did not begin life as a musician. He was sent to the Naval College at St. Petersburg as befitted the son of an aristocrat. For eleven years he served in the navy, on one cruise visited the U. S. But all that time his thoughts were on music-on the sort that a small Jewish band had played on his father's estate when he was a child, on Russian folk themes which were forming...
lusty and somewhat boisterous. Harvard, I imagined, would be different in the way that the aristocrat is different from the democrat...
...Nelson Perkins, Harvard Fellow, as acting President. Mr. Perkins has been an outstanding lawyer in Massachusetts for some 35 years. He was the first American member of the Reparations Commission, and in the Reparations Conference last spring he was alternate to Owen D. Young. That he is a Boston aristocrat does not weigh too heavily on his shoulders. He is noted for his democracy and humor...