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...show there was a boldly patterned Duncan Grant still-life called Parrot Tulips, an Ivon Kitchens and a moody Graham Sutherland that Eddie picked up before any of the painters was recognized. He bought Sculptor Henry Moore's early sketches of sad, nude women, a beautiful Augustus John drawing of a Seated Woman, the watercolors of the Nash brothers, Paul and John...
...Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, for study in any British Commonwealth university, has been given to Jackson M. Bruce, Jr., a history concentrator from Lowell. James W. Mason, of Eliot, won the Augustus Clifford Tower fellowship for study in France. He is an English concentrator...
They appear in The Vagrant Mood, a slim volume of urbane table talk ranging from the decline of the detective story to Immanuel Kant's theory of beauty, from Edmund Burke's literary style to a profile of an eccentric 10th century English snob named Augustus Hare. Proof that the "Old Party's" writing hand has lost none of its cunning is the fact that he can make such unlikely subjects just as likeable reading as his personal memories of Novelists Henry James and H. G. Wells, which he tucks into the same book...
...Soon as Weaned." Augustus Hare, author of Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, Walks in Rome, and other popular Victorian travel books, was an unwanted child. When his godmother asked to adopt him, his delighted mother wrote back: "How very kind of you. Yes, certainly the baby shall be sent as soon as it is weaned; if anyone else would like one, would you kindly remember that we have others?" With "two little white nightshirts and a red coral necklace," Baby Augustus was packed off to his new home. His godmother was a religious fanatic who felt that happiness was next...
Four Black Crosses. Though he might have become a monster, Augustus Hare grew up a mannerly eccentric. He never married, but about four times a year he drew a black cross in his journal to mark his incontinencies. When Maugham got to know him, Augustus Hare's days were already numbered, and swaddled in ritual. They began at 8 a.m. with a cup of tea and two slices of thin buttered bread. This was followed by morning prayers, Augustus reading, guests kneeling. Maugham found that Augustus had inked out many lines in the Book of Common Prayer, and asked...