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...does not include the unprecedentedly generous gifts toward the purchase of the library of William Augustus White '63. For this purpose, one hundred persons subscribed the sum of $191,965, which enabled the Library to acquire the major portion of the books needed from Mr. White's collection of Elizabethan literature. Most of these donors were already members of the Friends and have continued their friendship...
...carry the power. The last scene, for example, where Elizabeth decides that England means more to her than the life of her lover has real dramatic strength and poignancy. But the drama dwindles off into labored phrases and district hysteria; not the kind of situation one usually associates with Elizabethan gestures...
...such a play. Aside from her diction and a few unrestrained dramatics that were difficult to avoid, however, she turned in a creditable performance. Mr. Lunt assisted her with no great brilliancy, but as well as his lines would permit. And if the Court Fool was the epitome of Elizabethan wit and humor, "merrie England" is a euphemism...
...University Press will also release in the near future Professor H. E. Rollins' edition of "The Phoenix Nest," one of the best of the numerous verse anthologies published in the Elizabethan age. He has already edited several other anthologies of the period, in addition to four volumes of the Pepys ballads...
...several years Averardi was an Assistant Professor of German Literature at the University of Florence, and during this time he translated the work of the Italian scholar of art. Adolofo Venturi, into German. He is also thoroughly familiar with English, and has translated various Elizabethan dramatists into Italian...