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...picture, and if Holmes has any sense, he will remain blind to the theft. This delightful pair should be employed again in a more credible adventure than Murder by Decree. Conan Doyle suggests one in The Problem of Thor Bridge: "That of Isadora Persano, the well-known journalist and duellist, who was found stark staring mad with a matchbox in front of him which contained a remarkable worm said to be un known to science...
...results of the Revolution, wrote panegyrics on its heroes, and supported Walpole, its perfect representative, in office. Yet the student of politics finds nearly the whole period of Walpole's ministry torn by bitter party and personal antagonism; to him. Walpole seems even greater as a kind of political duellist, always outwitting a pressing throng of foes, than as an enlightened national financier. Professor Laprade, in "Public Opinion and Politics in Eighteenth Century England", has shown that a study of the controversial journalism of the period throws much light on both aspects of the minister's career and -- more important...
Died. Marie Paul Ernest Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane, Marquis of the 1st French Empire (sic), 64, spender, dandy, duellist, onetime husband of Jay Gould's daughter Anna; of a paralytic stroke; in Paris. He battened his reputation for the grand manner with his wife's millions. She divorced him for presenting her with "kings & emperors one day, slaps the next," married his cousin, Duc de Talleyrand. "Boni'' wrote two books, How I Discovered America and The Art of Being Poor, worked as middleman between auctioneers & wealthy foreigners. His title, traced by him to the year...
...France, famed Author Ibanez, himself no mean duellist, although "he has never yet succeeded in killing anyone," received the challenge. Said he: "Spanish has always been my people's language, unlike the Habsburg who now sits on the Spanish throne. Varella doesn't need to say in four languages that he will slap my face to induce me to fight. I am ready to meet him at any time...
That lithe grace and distinguished bearing which were once thought to be natural possessions of the successful duellist can be cultivated by the assiduous quite as well with foils as with pointed blades. And if the novice feels after considerable practice that his form is at last perfect, there are doubtless members of the University fencing team, now for the second successive year Intercollegiate champions, who would be willing to demonstrate that cleverness and hard won experience are as essential now as in the days of Monsieur Beaucaire...