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IOWA: A bond issue of $22,000,000 for a state soldier bonus is still being offered for sale. Daily the State Treasurer holds a bond auction-and has done so for over two weeks, but no buyers attend...
...help, thus far, has come from America. Munich and Vienna duplicate Berlin. Hundreds of German and Austrian artists have already entered the coal mines to make a living. The others, working in heatless studios, live chiefly on rice. Thomas E. Kirby, for 40 years leading figure in the art auction business in the United States, is retiring as head of the American Art Association to write his memoirs. [About $60,000,000 worth of art works have passed beneath his hammer since he came to New York in 1883.] "New York," Mr. Kirby says, "is now the art center...
Rembrandt's wonderful light has been revealed glowing beneath the dust of centuries, a famous panel lost for nearly 400 years. It was part of a sale at auction in Prague, and was discovered by Dr. Gustav Weil, collector, through an obscure Persian inscription and a signature almost buried in grime. The "light that never was on land or sea" was painted by Rembrandt, if by any one. His pictures glow with a peculiar mellow intensity that can hardly have existed in the actual scene before him. While the light from Rembrandt's brush falls on them, they...
...book containing marginal notes made by Thomas Carlyle was sold at auction recently for a sum approximating two hundred dollars. George Washington's autograph, whenever and wherever found, is treasured away in a museum. A baseball with George Herman Ruth's signature brought a price of five hundred dollars. But the ordinary mortal who reads books in Widener Library and makes notes in their margins is not and it is possible never will be, as great as the three celebrities mentioned above. His comments, to be sure, arouse an interest in those who read them to know the name...
...flivver that has never (under the guidance of its present owner, at least) rattled on any highway beyond walking distance of Cambridge, will find itself drawn into the stream of vehicles headed westward on the fourth of November. Some of us will reserve our favorite Boston taxi, and auction off cubic feet of space in it to the highest bidder as long as there is space left. Others have already ordered our town cars to be boxed up and shipped from Chicago, Philadelphia or New York before the freight trains stop running. . . . But we'll be there...