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...known. Practically all the contemporary British literary and dramatic world is to be met within his pages. There is George Bernard Shaw, "the enfant terrible of London, always in the highest spirits and the strangest clothes, that might quite easily have been made at home, bilious in colour, and in pattern vegetarian like his diet"; Beerbohm Tree, who could never quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile invention posted prompters under tables, behind rocks or ancient oaks, so that the elusive word might be whispered to him as he moved in well disguised anguish from cache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unwritten History* | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

...which Homer spent at Key West, has just been loaned to the Fogg Art Museum. The picture bears the artist's initials but is not dated. Homer's tropical scenes rank perhaps among his finest works. Mr. Downes in his book on Homer says, "For pure beauty of colour and light they have never been surpassed, and it is hard to believe that they ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WATER COLOR BY WINSLOW HOMER LOANED TO FOGG ART MUSEUM | 5/19/1922 | See Source »

Among recent acquisitions of the Fogg Museum of Fine Arts, there are two water colours by Sargent. In the Exhibition of water colour paintings by Homer, Sargent, and Macknight, held under the auspices of the Copley Society at the Boston Art Club, in March, these two pictures were shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Receives Two Sargent Paintings | 4/28/1921 | See Source »

Another Sargent water colour, "Camping near Lake O'Hara", which has been in the possession of the Museum since 1916. Was also shown at the Copley Society Exhibition and has now been lent for a short time to the Chicago Art Institute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Receives Two Sargent Paintings | 4/28/1921 | See Source »

...Union during the month of February: Lyman Abbott, "Reminiscences"; Mildred Aldrich, "A Hilltop on the Marne"; M. Anesaki, "Buddhist Art"; Arnold Bennett, "These Twain"; John Jay Chapman, "Greek Genius," and "Memories and Milestones"; Winston Churchill, "A Far Country"; Frank Danby, "Nelson's Legacy"; M. Lucien Descaver, "The Colour of Paris"; Arthur Elson, "The Book of Musical Knowledge"; St. John G. Ervine, "Eight O'clock"; A. D. Ficke, "The Man on the Hilltop"; Carl R. Fish, "American Diplomacy"; Richard Le Gallienne, "Vanishing Roads"; John Galsworthy, "The Freelands"; N. V. Gogol, "Dead Souls"; Maxim Gorky, "My Childhood"; Ivan Goucharov, "Oblomov...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW BOOKS FOR UNION LIBRARY | 2/24/1916 | See Source »

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