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...highlight of the whole exhibit is several rare editions of the "Compleat Angler", by one Izsak Walton. This 17th century writer had much to do with making fishing a sport rather than an the occupation, and as such he has become the father of a movement which in the spring of the year lures thousands to cast and dream of pairoueaint Walton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener, Host to History of Angling Art, Lures Would-Be Fishermen to Display of Waltonisms | 4/17/1937 | See Source »

...SPOKE LAST?-John V. Turner- Holt ($2). Compleat Angler Petrie fishes from each of six suspects his reason for murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

Class of 1932 Moses AbramovitzWalton: Compleat Angler John Barton Appelbaum Helboin: Dance of Death Garrett Birkhoff Translation by Coleridge of the 1st part of Schiller's Wallenstein Harold Leslie Biabee Vitno Caesarum Jacob Canter Petrarea Rime Frank Gilchrist Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield Henry Adams Morss James: Charles W. Eliot David Henry Popper James: Charles W. Eliot James Wallerstein Gaskell: Cranford Henry Babcock Veatch Bridges: Testament of Beauty James Wallerstein Gilbert: The Savey Operas William Barry Wood Masefield's Poems Paul Maurice Zoll Sterne: Tristram Shandy Class of 1933 Molvin Leon Anshon Rowley's Poems Morton Clark Bradley Soldlitz: History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recipients of Detur Awards | 10/29/1932 | See Source »

...novelettes make up his latest scourge. Mostly they belabor comic futilities, backgrounded by that darker "murderous destructiveness which makes people go on destroying themselves when they've nothing better to destroy." Most guileless, most amusing, is the tale of Oswald, "the compleat bachelor," who longs only for a continuance of slippered ease and financial assistance from his dominating aunt. An overdraft at the bank sends him to her for help. She, concerned that he is not advancing in a "career," gives him hark-from-the-tomb. To pacify her, Oswald, to his own horror, suggests that he become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: This Side of Purgatory | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...Philip Gibbs, was educated, like Tom and Jack, in the College de St. Malo, St. John's College, Oxford, founded the Oxonian weekly, The Tuesday Review. Later he came to the U. S., divided his two years here between writing two novels and playacting. Other books: The Compleat Oxford Man, Cheadle and Son, Rowlandson's Oxford (history). The Hour of Conflict, The Persistent Lovers, Bluebottles, Gunfodder, Soundings, Labels, Harness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pity for Damon | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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