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These mysterious events prompt an investigation by a shrewd, vinegary London barrister named Henry Ayscough, acting on behalf of a duke whose son is believed to be the vanished traveler. Most of the novel unfolds through Ayscough's persistent, painstaking inquiry, and it makes gripping reading indeed, part detective story, part crackling courtroom drama. A vivid gallery of the English underclasses passes under the lawyer's scrutiny. Testimony is offered on London brothel life, moonlit rituals at Stonehenge, witchcraft and an odd prefiguring of science fiction in a cavern beneath the Devon moors...
...Court Life under the T'ang Dynasty" will be the subject of a lecture open to the public by Mrs. Florence Ayscough at the Fogg Art Museum today at 4.30 o'clock. Her talk will be illustrated by lantern slides painted by Lucille Douglass...
...Ayscough is an author of considerable note, having written books entitled "A Chinese Mirror," Tu Fu," "The Autobiography of a Chinese Poet," and "The Autobiography of a Chinese Dog." They have been heralded as a notable contribution to Western understanding of Chinese literature and culture. She has also collaborated with Miss Amy Lowell. Mrs. Ayscough's original method of translation, her scholarship and lecturing ability make her a superb interpreter of Chinese thought...
...first selections of the committee are as follows: Florence Ayscough's "Tu Fu, the Autobiography of a Chinese Poet"; P. Eipper's "Animals Looking at You"; John Livingston Lowes' "Of Reading Books"; Gilbert Murray's "The Ordeal of This Generation"; and L. W. Reese's "A Victorian Village...
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