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...courses in the field of literature will be: "English Literature from 1550 to 1600" by Hyder E. Rollins, Gurney Professor of English Literature; "Bunyan and his Contemporaries," by Professor James B. Wharey, University of Texas; "The Prose Writers of the Augustan Age," Professor Roger P. McCutchoon, of Tulane University; "Mark Twain and His Contemporaries," by Associate Professor Walter Blair, of University of Chicago...
Caroline of England, subtitled An Augustan Portrait, is the story of the smooth-bosomed, strong-minded Princess of Brandenburg-Anspach who married George Augustus of Hanover (George II) and contrived to rule him and England in the spacious years 1727-37. Peter Quennell's biography of Caroline is the second to appear within the last six months. Less formal than the first, Caroline of Anspach by R. L. Arkell (TIME, Aug. 7) it is actually less a history of the queen than an able and entertaining study of the society in which she moved...
...King died and the coronation of George Augustus and pomp-loving Caroline (who had a "petticoat so heavily jewel-encrusted that it was found necessary to contrive a sort of pulley that en abled her to raise the hem when she knelt down") ushered in the Augustan...
AUGUSTUS - John Buchan - Houghton Mifflin ($4.50). Attempt, carefully collated, well-considered, sympathetically written by Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, to recreate what the creator of the "Augustan Peace" must have been like. Heavyish going, however, for all but the more serious readers...
...Army, prospered during Reconstruction by pushing what is now the Seaboard Airline Railroad through North Carolina to Atlanta. Dr. Hoke's mother was a New York Van Wyck. One of his uncles. Robert Van Wyck, was elected mayor of New York City in 1898. Same year, another uncle, Augustan Van Wyck, was defeated for Governor of New York by Roosevelt I. General Hoke wanted his son to become a civil engineer like himself. "Mike" obeyed, took a C. E. degree at the University of North Carolina. Having thus complied with family authority, he proceeded to study medicine...