Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the most interesting of these books is a first edition of Milton's minor poems. Before the title page there is engraving of the author done by W. Marshall, Milton, evidently disliking the picture wrote a Greek comment under the picture, which Marshall, ignorant of Greek and believing the comment to be complimentary, caused to be engraved on the plate. Milton's comment, translated, follows...
...pretentious picture and Author Bacheller is proud of it. If he had written a more humble book more humbly he would have written a better book...
...BAND PLAYS DIXIE-Morris Markey-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Author Markey, the latest recruit to that swelling corps of young Manhattan newsgatherers who write disillusioned novels about wars, is not unaccomplished. His story has many an authentically stirring moment-a Yankee band challenging the Rebels with "Dixie" before the carnage at Fredericksburg; a sardonic Southern gallant shooting between his horse's ears on a midnight pursuit; the preparations for a lonely sabre duel; a bright-haired Richmond belle riding through magnolia-fragrant lanes and other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely...
...Author Gorky's real name: Alicksei Maximovitch Pieshkov...
Again the Balkans rumble and war is talked of as thousands of Albanian tribesmen are rushed to the frontier. And behind the ever thickened screen of mystery which envelopes the small mountainous country of Albania sits Fan Stylian Noli '12. Harvard graduate, author, translator, orthodox priest, bishop, Premier of Albania and liberal, this flery patrial keeps his adversary. Ashmet Zogu president of Albania pale and nervous by his constant infrignes. Well enough does Zogu recollect the day in 1924 and 1925 when he himself was a refugee hiding in the fastness of the Albanian mountains waiting his chance to strike...