Word: aspasia
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...Ebling Sheridan: The Critic Edward Settle Godfrey Morison: Development of Harvard University Abraham Lincoln Gordon Life of Benvenuto Cellini Clement Lowell Harriss Carroll: Alice in Wonderland Isadore Herman Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress Robert Kaplan Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield William Wallace Kirkpatrick Byron's Poems Paul Lachlan MacKendrick Pericles and Aspasia Joseph Neyer Swift: Tale of a Tub Philander Silas Ratzkoff Scott: Redgauntlet Johnathan Barlow Richards Carlyle: Miscellanies John Thomas Sapienza Robinson's Poems Richard Bulger Schlatter Hallam: History of England and the Middle Ages Edgar Lawrence Smith James: Charles W. Eliot John William Walsh Carvantes: Don Quixote Class...
...faints on his doorstep. He befriends her to the extent of a bed, a portion of his gruel and the services of a doctor. The backslid daughter of a scholar, she can quote reams of the pious Carlyle, but she compares her own way of life to that of Aspasia, most successful of the Athenian courtesans. The Scotsman talks of her soul; he signs another man's name on his own examination paper in order to get money to provide her with a rest-cure in Spain...
...from the monkey glands of Mrs. Atherton's Black Oxen to The Immortal Marriage of Pericles and Aspasia. But classicism continues to outdo sensationalism, for the new novel concerns a spirited young Athenian who struggled to hold the fickle fancy of his fellow townsmen. Temperamentally he was unfitted for the struggle-one night's drunken debauch culminating in a ribald mock-performance of a religious rite cost him years of exile, to say nothing of his position as First Citizen. Alcibiades took terrible revenge on his city, instigating and leading a Spartan attack-until Athens was forced...
...IMMORTAL MARRIAGE-Gertrude Atherton-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Pericles and Aspasia...
...translation into Greek from Landor's Pericles and Aspasia Letters...