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...party left Cambridge early Tuesday morning, making the first stop at Springfield, where the finest group of municipal buildings in the country is situated. Proceeding to Barrington, Vt., the party spent some time studying Mrs. William H. Walker's estate with its elaborate grounds and mansion in the Elizabethan style. From there the school went to stock bridge, Mass, where eight more estates were studied and sketched...
Professor Albert Feuillerat will give the fourth of his series of lectures on "Shakespeare: His Time and Work" this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D. In this lecture he will deal in particular with "The Elizabethan Audience". These lectures are open to the public and have attracted many students from institutions other than the University...
...TREASURE OF THE BUCOLEON- Arthur D. Howden-Smith-Brentano ($2.00). A cipher hidden in Elizabethan verse-secret stairs in an old English manor hall-a fabulous treasure secreted bv Byzantine emperors in the very belly of Constantinople-a gang of international cutthroats who are constantly sandbagging the legitimate treasure-seekers-gypsy brigands versus Turkish assassins - a spitfire gypsy lass equally ready with kiss or knife- these are some of the ingredients of as rattlingly energetic a yarn of adventure as any in some time...
...Outline of Literature is highly successful. Its pages, simple, succinct, easy to read, should give anyone with a modicum of intelligence a good, general, working idea of the entire, fantastic progression of the written word from the first rude scratchings on rocks to the beginnings of the Elizabethan era. Its frequent quotations should inspire in its readers a desire to turn from it to the masterpieces with which it deals. The Bible is well treated, and from a modern viewpoint. Each chapter is followed by an intelligent bibliography. The individual estimates of authors in general avoid the irrelevant. The illustrations...
Once readers were ignorant, and naively vain of their erudition Later readers were honest, and openly proud of their vices. Later still readers were gentle, and sentimentally enamored of their poses. Now readers are literate, and remarkably fond of their opinions. Elizabethan, Restoration, Victorian, Modern literature ? where is it going...