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...graver, more classic mood capably interpreted. Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe by Philippe Gaubert and Orchestre des Concerts Straram (Columbia, $4)-An excellent performance of the symphonic suite commissioned by the late Serge Diaghilev for his Russian Ballet. The originality and finish which marked even Ravel's earliest work is shown in this month's release of his Menuet Antique (Brunswick). Chamber Music: Ravel's Quartet in F by the Krettly Quartet of Paris (Victor, $5)-The popular French composer caught in a deeply personal mood. Piano...
...Constellation, believed to be the largest ever printed. It measured 50 in. by 35 in., had 13 columns to the page, contained numerous pictures, including one of President Buchanan. The Constellation was published in Manhattan on July 4, 1867 by one George Roberts. Other curios: one of the earliest Socialist journals (1849), printed on dark red paper; an Eskimo newspaper; a copy of the Cologne Volks-zeitung (1889) which presented a brief story of the 100th anniversary of the firm of Solomon Oppenheimer, printed in letters of gold...
...international government is the field covered by Government 18b, which was given last year by Mr. Herter, who was secretary to President Hoover when the latter was doing relief work in Belgium, before and after the war. The course discusses the various attempts at international government from the earliest times, including the schemes of Abbe Pierre and Sully. It concludes with the League of Nations, and the so-called World Court. The League is regarded from a critical point of view, with the action of the United States in not joining being analyzed. An interesting forecast is made...
...that whole period from the 4th to the 13th Century referred to by Victorian professors as the dark ages, U. S. collections have scarcely anything but a few fragments of Romanesque sculpture, an occasional porphyry column or bit of mosaic. This period is completely covered by the Welfenschatz. Earliest of the pieces is an 8th Century enamel plaque bearing a pop-eyed head of Christ. Latest is a silver relic cross made in 1483. Most important artistically is a casket reliquary in the form of a Byzantine church of gold, walrus ivory and brilliant enamel which once held the dried...
...Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology in the University of Minnesota, and C.J. Calpin, of the United States Department of Agriculture. It is designed to accomplish the purpose of making available to English-speaking students the most important writings on rural life and rural peoples in all languages, from the earliest times to the present...