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...three volumes of poems left for posthumous publication by Amy Lowell is as impersonal as the first volume (What's O'Clock?, 1925) was personal. It contains 13 narratives, mostly in the free, conversational verse that Miss Lowell adapted as a net to catch the crabbed dialect of her much-cherished New England. That dialect imposed restrictions upon her crystalline and pyrotechnic fancy, but only in the matter of actual words. When a New Englander needs an image for swarming bees he may not bethink him of showered stars, yet sparks from a Fourth of July pinwheel...
...that phonograph owners everywhere have lately been buying eagerly in record form, sung and played in faithful dialect for the Columbia Company...
...heart of the Breton glories in the past. He clings to old superstitions, continues to wear picturesque crimson and blue waistcoats, and still speaks a Celtic dialect. His emotionalism is bound up with the sea-to the north of his peninsula, he looks out on the gilded bronze statue of St. Michael standing 165 ft. above the waves on the Gothic spire of the fortress-abbey Mont St. Michel; to the south in the harbor of St. Nazaire, he now sees an American doughboy, sword in hand, eagerly poised atop the back of an eagle with graceful, outspread wings...
...Properly speaking, the gypsies are a race by themselves, known in western Europe since 1417. In language and origin they are Hindus, speaking a corrupt Sanskrit dialect. Strong admixtures of Persian, Slavonic, Magyar and Greek blood and language were picked up in their migrations. As inhabitants of the ancient Greek empire or Empire of New Rom, they were identified as Romanoi before the prouder term Hellenes was assumed by the Greeks...
...plan for a dining hall or common room in Holworthy. Your statement that "each building was a separate unit with its own sleeping quarters, kitchen, dining room and in many cases Library is incorrect. That statement was made about 25 years ago, and conclusively disproved by Albert Matthews, in Dialect; Notes, 11, 91-114. In the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries the so-called "colleges" merely dormitories, with the exception of Harvard Hall, which contained the one college commons, kitchen, buttery, and library. Even the aborigines, in the short-lived "Indian Colledge," ate in the commons, which perhaps explains...