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...Henry Guppy's term as president of the British Library Association ended last week and Edward James Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine replaced him at the association's jubilee meeting in Edinburgh. The chief significance of the succession lay in the ability of a librarian group to attract a potent citizen to their leadership...
LOUISE (MRS. JAMES) EPPENSTEIN Elgin...
Died. David C. Cook, 76, president of the David C. Cook Publishing Company, publishers of Sunday School literature; in Elgin, III. His publications include 43 titles, have a combined circulation of more than...
History. In 1800, the Earl of Elgin set forth to make drawings, models, paintings of the Athenian ruins which testify to the immortality of Periclean Greece and the work of Phidias. Greece then was under Ottoman dominion. Being a Christian, Lord Elgin found himself obstructed at every turn. His artist companions were forbidden approach to the ruins, let alone entrance. Later Great Britain's arms prevailed over France, and Egypt (hitherto under French dominion) was dealt to Turkey. So enthusiastic waxed the Ottomans over this token of good will, that Lord Elgin was told to go ahead and make...
...Lord Elgin made the most of his good luck. Putting a broad interpretation upon his carte blanche, he proceeded to divest the Parthenon of its rarest ornaments-pediment, friezes, metopes, statuary. He proceeded as a private individual, without authority of parliament, with only private encouragement of public men. Hundreds of natives were employed in excavating, removing. The people of Greece showed no resentment. Indeed the interest attaching to the work brought tourists. The tourists, then as always, spent money. As for the Turks, they had little use for Greek relics, other than as objects upon which to inflict spiteful blows...