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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with fine illumination and interesting musical notation. Other items are a complete set of the first edition of Walter Scott's writings, probably the only one existing; one of the three inscribed books by Thomas Hardy; Edmund Gosse's autographed set of Keats; first edition; a unique and beautifully bound set of Mark Twain with some of the original manuscript inserted; a set of Shaw's works, all autographed, and unequalled for its completeness...
REVIEWING "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" is a hard lot. The reviewer, goaded by an unreasoning desire for hyperbole, is consciously bound by a definitive knowledge of the dullness of critical prose when compared with the brilliant nervousness of Yeats-Brown...
...first number of the bulletin appear four articles of general educational matters, a more technical discussion on a phase of elementary school programs, and an alumni section, with material concerning the School of Education and its graduates. The whole, totaling a modest forty pages, is bound in dark brown paper with a simple but attractive front. It will be sent to all alumni of the school, and to others at a rate of two dollars a year...
...spend two days under its residential regime firmly indicates the strong bonds of friendship between the undergraduates of the two universities. It is a generous offer which allows the hyper-critical student of another college to probe both the successes and defeats of the other. Mistakes there are bound to be where a revolutionary change has taken the place of a tradition hallowed by two and a half centuries of existence...
...Chester Dale, Maud to the world of art, is the small, tawny-haired, vivacious daughter of Artist Frank Murray, onetime dramatic editor of the New York Herald. She paints landscapes and murals, collects pictures, writes books about them. For the past two years a handsome series of yellow-bound quartos on Modern Art have been appearing over the colophon of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Maud Dale wrote two of these books, one on Picasso, one on Modigliani. Booksellers know that not Alfred Knopf but Maud Dale is paying the publication cost of the whole series...