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...Rare Byron Shown...
Another rare book in the cases is the fifth edition of "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" by Byron. This edition is extremely uncommon because he caused it to be suppressed for personal reasons, shortly after it was put upon the presses...
...Battle of the Cousins which displaced all other Senate business; which turned Senators into a pack of snarling, sleepless animals; which littered the chamber with apple cores, pitchers of ice water and ancient documents. The time-filling tactics of the filibusterers were crude. Instead of reading Shakespeare or Byron, they had the clerk read yesterday's journal. Senator Cameron plodded through a document on copper mining, of which he could not pronounce some of the words. Senator Moses, protectionist, read a four-year-old low tariff speech of Senator Underwood. Senator Blease mouthed the Constitution of South Carolina...
...display also is a copy of Gray's "Odes" that was owned by Lord Byron when he was 16 years of age. In this is Byron's signature written in his longhand...
...Individual Soviet citizens have gone to China and enlisted in the Chinese armies just as English volunteers joined the Boers and as Lord Byron fought for Greece. . . . England protests against the aid which we gave the striking coal miners, but the British sent money here for the Patriarch Tikhon. Great Britain must realize that a break with us means a break with one-sixth of the world...