Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attempt to achieve the live yet dignified spirit of a good monthly review. Quite evidently the Monthly is through, for a year at least, with being a literary safe-deposit vault. Under the new board it appears bent on emerging from those purple shades where the pleasant but inconsequent art of canning the "best literary product of the University" has mildly flourished. It has tried to creep out before, only to be thrust back by a surprised and somewhat upset graduate board. The present venture seems to combine in better, certainly less vulnerable, degree the qualities of life and literature...
...English literature, Dr. Bernbaum has made an important contribution in "The Mary Carleton Narratives 1663-1673,--A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel." This intrinsically interesting book is significant since it shows that even in the Restoration Period the art of realistic fiction was practiced. Hitherto the narratives were thought to be biographical instead of fictional. The Press also announces a translation by G. W. Robinson, Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, of "Eugippius: The Life of Saint Severinus," a document of the history and life of the Fifth Century, for the first time...
Several changes have been made in the arrangement of the objects shown in the ground floor room of the Fogg Art Museum and a number of new works have been recently placed on exhibition. The northeast room has been given over to Asiatic art. In addition to the Chinese porcelains and the Chinese and Thibetan paintings already shown, there are now to be seen in the center case a set of three jars of glazed pottery, made in China and dating from the Ming period...
...Essays, though competent in style, will hardly outlive the occasion which they originally served. The Verses have somewhat more of significance and distinction. Thoughtful and manifestly sincere, they are the expression of a serious mind which has not yet reached its full maturity. Without sincerity there is no great art, but sincerity alone is not quite the whole story. Mr. Butler-Thwing's poems are marked by delicacy of feeling and a certain just refinement of phrase, but they lack directness of inspiration and first-hand freshness of speech. They are earnest, eager, painstaking and -- traditional. The author...
...annual report of the director of the Fogg Art Museum, enumerating recent additions, states that the collection of classical antiquities has been enriched by a fragment of a fourth century Greek marble head in the style of Scopas, a gift of E. P. Warren '83. Four examples of Gandhara sculpture were bought by a few friends and given to the Museum, and two others were received from B. A. G. Fuller '00. A gift of money for the collection of classical antiquities in memory of G. G. Van Rensselaer '96, enabled Dr. Chase to buy a Greek head...