Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here there is a lacuna in the manuscript. Whether or not the author was seized with a fatal disease, lacked a rhyme scheme, lost interest those are questions which the reader must answer for himself. Suffice to say that in this fragment we have one of the loviest examples of the old Welsh. The translation is practically a literal one with the exception of the word "But", which is written as "However" (from the German "Sed" etc. Vide Med. Phil...
...Lewis Carroll exhibit has been arranged in the Widener Memorial Room and will be on display through next week. Manuscripts made while the author of "Alice in Wonderland" was a student at Eton and Oxford, Carroll's own copy of the first edition of the classic fairy tale, and the first rough draft for "Through the Looking Glass," are among the many treasures in the exhibition...
...late Eighteenth Century, the admirable blending of the supernatural and picturesque, the touch of fantasy, and the vigor of its action, place this book well above Bram Stoker's "Dracula" as a tale of a life hereafter. With the well-told description of Von Dronte's early life the author skillfully disarms the reader of his will to disbelieve, and, having gained his confidence and credulity, he adroitly weaves his weird spell...
...scenes of intense vividness are many. Not only is there a brutally distinct picture of the guillotine, but a first-hand description of being guillotined. At this point the author's imagination reaches its greatest height. The spirit aloofly observes the physical phenomena of the body just before it climbs the scaffold. It watches the blade descend, sees the twitching limbs left on the board and the staring eyes of the head in the bloody basket. Then as a vitreous transparent body, seeing and hearing, but not feeling, he travels the world in a search for the mating humans...
...some extent, however, the pendulum has swung back, and already a popular magazine of large circulation has chronicled the exploits of Von Richthofen, the great German ace, with a surprising degree of authenticity. Now Lowell Thomas, author of "With Lawrence in Arabia," has told the amazing and almost unbelievably romantic story of Count Luckner's raids upon the Allied shipping of two oceans, and has given us a full-length portrait of this outstanding adventurer...