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...guillotine takes its deadly toll as The Terror rules Paris. But Citizen Robespierre is annoyed. Victim after victim slips through his fingers and crosses the channel to England, all through the infernal machinations of that "Damned elusive Pimpernel." Into the background of eighteenth century France and England Leslie Howard fits like a package of cigarettes in cleophane. As the uncannily clever schemer disguised as an old hag, as the suave nobleman who courts, death to save his friends, the nobles of the French court, as the fastidious fop who advises the Prince of Wales on the proper jabeau, Howard...
Poland, a nation who has learned how to suffer since at least the eighteenth century, knows today that her troubles have just begun. When the body of Marshal Pilsudski has been laid in Wawel Castle beside his nation's heroes, Poles will be forced to put aside their black crepe and face the gloomiest of realities. Before them is the acid test of dictatorship: the question of what to do when a state which has been raised upon the personality of one man finds that he is gone. If history means anything, the autocracy has one of two fates...
...Arts degrees will be in seventeenth century style, but the wording has been left practically unchanged. The degrees for law, medicine, and philosophy will follow models used in the lats eighteenth century. Still a different design will be drawn for honorary degrees and will be ready in time for the Tercentennial ceremonies...
...barren mountain region far from any town, was built and maintained by the ancient Egyptians solely in connection with the turquoise mines at that point from approximately 3000 B. C. to 1500 B. C. The mines were exploited by the Egyptians from the twelfth to the eighteenth dynastics, and probably were also worked intermittently by the local tribes...
...opera first flowered--from 1600 to 1700. It is a slight shock to find that the shelves are quite innocent of most of such music, in spite of the fact that much of what he is seeking has been published. Being a persevering fellow, he doggedly goes to the eighteenth century, where again he finds little beyond Bach, Handel, Rameau, Mozart, and Hayden. Having perhaps studied the nineteenth century, our student skips a hundred years, but faints away on the cold floor of the stacks when he finds no English composers except a little Vaughan Williams and Holst; none...