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...Florence that George Eliot found in Italy and fashioned for her novel Romola has been recaptured by the camera. Amazingly beautiful photography of the strange old sleepy city on the Arno is, next to Miss Gish's playing, the feature of the narrative. Opening with a galley-slave ship scene, the escape of the villain, his marriage with the blind Bardi's daughter, his betrayal of her, his denial of his aged father, his death, follow the outline of the story...
...ROOM WITH A VIEW?E. M. Forster?Knopf ($2.50). Mr. Forster is irritated beyond measure by conventional humanity. But he keeps his temper and laughs good-humoredly from his window at the British Babbitts in Italy. The view from the room was over the Arno, and Florence?of the tourists?is the background for a good part of the book...
Middle Entry.-"Arno Moore," rooms 9, 10: H. S. Chase, F. H. Fisher, N. Mck, Lang, "Haig and Haig," room 12: M. Feckheimer, J. S. Levy...
...collection of essays on the problems and interests of our existence. The extent of the subject is shown by the great variety of the topics treated. The subject is not a new one and the method of treatment is already familiar to readers of Emerson, Arno d and Carlyle. The tone of all the essays is one of extreme optimisim and encouragement. The idea of the whole is well summed up in one of its first sentences-"I shlal treat life as we find it, see what has been and is made of it, and suggest what might be, must...
Views of many other churches and statues were also shown, giving altogether a most clear and satisfactory idea of the city. Pisa is situated on the Arno nearer the sea. The city is noted for a group of buildings surrounding the Duomo, or cathedral, which dates from the eleventh century. In this church is the identical lamp from whose movements Galileo deduced the laws of the pendulum. The baptistry is a very handsome building, but the chief interest centers in the well known "Leaning Tower," from whose summit Galileo made his experiments on falling bodies. The attitude of this tower...