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...collection which the late Curator Wilhelm von Bede of Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum used to call "the richest treasury of Renaissance masterpieces in private ownership," was well on its way to the U. S. last week. Its value: $6,000,000. Its sale price: undisclosed. Purchaser of the collection and agent for its ultimate distribution to U. S. tycoons was the one firm of art dealers capable of handling a transaction of that magnitude: Duveen Brothers of London, Paris & New York...
...Built on the site of the wooden church in which, according to Bede, King Edwin was baptized by Paulinus on Easter...
...loved the past, and the old life of England, and yet she was one of the first, as she remains one of the greatest, of realists; for she saw through the green and sunny surface of country life to the wretchedness beneath. "The Mill on the Floss" and "Adam Bede", dealing with English life an with people whom the author knew, are analyzed clearly in Miss Haldane's book, and recommended as the best for the casual reader whose acquaince is limited to "Silas Marner...
...from the Ecclesiastical History written by the "venerable" Bede that we gain what knowledge there is of Cadman and for that matter of Bede himself. In a short biographical note at the end of the History he says in conclusion. "From the time of my admission to the priesthood to my present fifty-ninth year. I have endeavored . . . to make brief notes upon the Holy Scripture either out of the works of the venerable fathers, or in conformity with their meaning and interpretation." And the fact that he was ordained deacon at 19 allows that he was regarded as remarkable...
...Magoun will lecture on the Cadmanian poems and Bede at 11 o'clock this morning in Sever...