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...morning, 84 other Little Rock churches took part in the citywide prayer session suggested by Episcopal Bishop Robert Raymond Brown (TIME, Oct. 14). Some 7,000 citizens, a sizable Saturday morning turnout, prayed for a peaceful, lawful end to Little Rock's troubles. Said Mississippi-born Methodist Minister Aubrey Walton: "We know, our Heavenly Father, that we must share the blame for what has happened in our city. Forgive us for the influence we have not used, for the positions we should have taken but did not take...
Bypassing what he called "Knotty Studies," Oxonian Aubrey turned his intelligent, squirrel-like mind towards whatever was new in chemistry, archaeology, philosophy, medicine, astrology, witchcraft and zombis. He became the friend or acquaintance of virtually all the great thinkers of his day, from Sir Christopher Wren to Sir Isaac Newton. In time he lost his estates, was reduced to living on handouts. He died hoping that some "Ingeniose and publick-spirited young Man" might one day "polish and compleat what I have delivered rough hewen." Aubrey confessed that his frank sketches contained things "that would raise a Blush...
...AUBREY'S BRIEF LIVES (341 pp.)-Edited by Oliver Lawson Dick-University of Michigan...
...John Aubrey, 17th century English gentleman of leisure, had a painter's eye for human traits and a gossip columnist's passion for scandal. Both talents he diligently brought to his famous prose portraits, one of which was 23,000 words long, while another never got beyond one line, i.e., "Dr. Pell is positive that his name was Holybushe." Aubrey's Lives have been the historian's bounty and bane: his research was fascinating, but often based on mere hearsay. Whatever his shortcomings, no other biographer has ever written more vivid, true-to-life descriptions...
More than a decade ago Historian and Publicist Oliver Lawson Dick, "electing myself" to be the "young Man," went to work sorting out the huggermugger of 66 sprawling volumes of Aubrey manuscripts. The result, now published for the first time in the U.S., is a fascinating, alphabetically ordered collection of 134 portraits. As not a single Figge-leaf hides Elizabethan ribaldry, the book is scarcely suitable for young Virgins. Samples...