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...Jacob Tonson and John Watts of his rights as author of the 'Fables' and the 'Beggar's Opera,' dated February 6, 1727. The poet's signature is not easy to find, but infinitely scarcer is that of 'L. Bolton' the Duchess of Bolton who was once Lavinia Fenton, the creator of the part of Polly in the 'Begger's Opera,' and in no small measure responsible for its amazing first...
Some honor, therefore, is due a detective story which has the greater part of a college in its grip. Discussion of the most appalling examination yields to the universal question of "who killed him?" Mr. Philo Vance to say nothing of his anonymous creator must be gratified in spite of his indifferent pose at the numbers who follow his monthly pursuit of the criminal; and when at last his efforts are crowned with inevitable success, he will have the satisfaction of seeing a distinct loosening of tension in a community not usually distinguished for its interest in anything...
Keyserling. The extremely tall, incessantly restless philosopher whose domed cranium and pointed chin give his head the shape of a child's peg top is Count Hermann Keyserling, 47, head of the Darmstadt School of Wisdom, and creator of sensitive, soul piercing books.* Like the humming of a peg top is Count Keyserling's conversation. He chattered and he lectured in perfect English, last week, to lionizing Manhattanites, but so rapidly and with so much finger-waggling that some were abashed and others annoyed...
...Italian "restricted free ports" a small duty will have to be paid on only a very few kinds of articles-these "to be announced later." By invitation and command of Signer Mussolini, there was completed, last week, a score for the new Fascist Hymn of Labor. Composer: Pietro Mascagni, creator of the score of Cavalleria Rusticana. Fascist critics cried "solemn, melodious, impetuous," when his new opus was performed at Rome, last week, by a 250-piece brass band...
...quiet of the chapel. In the Ecclesiastes there is both an excuse for the students dissoulty and for his at tendance at the morning service before the hour of trial-"much study is a weariness to the flesh" and-here is the text of the sermon-"remember thou thy Creator... while the evil days come...