Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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March 16-21-Eighteenth annual international Flower Show, at Grand Central Palace, Manhattan...
...literature stands first in the number of works acquired, partly because it has perhaps the widest appeal, but chiefly because certain large subscriptions, amounting to $7,500, were specifically given for the purchase of English prose fiction. As a result of this, the collection of English novels of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is rapidly growing, and the students in Professor Greenough's courses in the history of the novel have adequate material to work with. Another considerable sum was devoted to building up the works of Fielding; and further sums were spent on editions of Byron, making...
...just as there was a real foundation for the attacks of the early primitivists against the neo-classicism of eighteenth century France, so there is a great deal of truth in Professor Mearns' criticism of modern pedagogy. He points out that it is instinctive for the child to tell the truth, which is often so embarrassing to the adult, and that the grownup tries to stifle this natural virtue in order to conform to social conventions. As a poet, too, Mr. Mearns believes that the child has possibilities which if encouraged would produce far greater poetry than that which...
...printed, series. Certainly it is the most comprehensive and within its 857 odd volumes can be found many of the required texts for courses, material otherwise unprocurable except perhaps for a single copy on the Widener shelves. These latest additions to the Library will be welcomed by students of eighteenth century literature and in particular those students who are enrolled in Comp...
...Enghteenth Century Novels contains three works: Samuel Johnson's "Rasselas", Horace Walpole's "Castle of Otranto", and "Vathek" by Beckford. Their interest is more for the specialist in eighteenth century novels and Gothic romances than the first mentioned volume which makes good reading even for those not at all interested in its historical significance. Rasselas in perhaps the best of the three novels and a reading of it will prove the charm of Dr. Jhonson's writing which critics are apt to pass over in their exposure of the novel's faults...