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...incalculable importance of such finds to literature is clearer to no one than to His Majesty. Success might bring the discovery of works as important as those of Caesar, Virgil, Cicero. Little boys may yet be whipped for not studying attentively books perhaps to be discovered at Herculaneum...
...hundred thousand Britishers gathered at the Crystal Palace, near London, in 1859 to honor the memory of Composer George Frederick Handel. An able tenor was to climax the music festival. The audience waited; he did not appear. Suddenly, a voice, clearer and purer than any they had ever heard, swelled through Crystal Palace. They saw a choir boy of 14, Edward Lloyd...
...this statement. It must be remembered, too, that geology is a young science, which has only begun its cultural value. As the science continues its vigorous growth, with its constantly increasing proofs of its deep meaning in the fundamental problems of nature and human life, it will become steadily clearer to faculty and students that an introduction to geology is indispensable to every cultivated man. The existing rules of distribution permit all Harvard undergraduates to gain contact with the subject. Concentration in geology is another matter...
...much but mere dross, there is at least one great spirit, living and suffering, pondering and creating. In Jacob Wassermann there can be seen a great master in the very process of development. Each new book discovers him with a firmer grasp of the technique of his craft, with clearer vision of moral truth. Paradoxically, although it is not as great a book, "Wedlock" is a distinct improvement upon the "World's Illusion...
...Story* is much the same Camelotian idyll as that told by Scribe Malory and Poet Tennyson, except that relations and motives are made infinitely clearer and the characters might be leisure-class folk of our own time and place, invested with more than the usual emotional intensity, ready wit, nice manners and good intentions...