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...reviewers is an encouraging sign of the growing maturity of criticism. The contrast between the present ideal of interpretation and the old reviewer's method of judging according to fixed principles, shows how the function of criticism has changed since the days of the supremacy of the Quarterly and Edinburgh Review...
...acres of land under water to the hedge tops. In England the Thames overflowed disastrously at Windsor and notably throughout its entire valley. A cyclone passed over Western Scotland, and the Clyde overflowed at Glasgow. Only a single telegraph line was working out of Dublin, and at London, Edinburgh and Glasgow all overhead telephone lines were down. The cross-channel packets were buffeted by 40-foot waves...
...years later he is toping and caroling in an inn, faced with ruin and the loss of Jean Armour, whose father will not let him marry her. Rather than be arrested he decides to print his songs. Again he is in Edinburgh, lionized after the publication of his first poems but unwilling to stoop for patronage. There he meets the diffident boy, Walter Scott; there as in the country he teaches the lasses to sing...
Professor D. F. Tovey, Red Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh will speak tonight at Paine Hall in the Music Building. His subject will be "Beethoven's Ninth symphony, and the speech will be accompanied by pianoforte illustrations. The lecture will be given at 8.15 o'clock, under the suspices of the Division of Music...
...Although he studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, although Edinburgh University conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity, although he has occupied most of the famous Protestant pulpits of the world, Mr. Speer is not an ordained minister. He decided years ago to remain a layman...