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...Ancient Languages and the Division of Modern Languages are given aid in the publication of Harvard Studies in Philology. E. K. Rand '94 will receive a grant for a survey of the manuscripts of Tours and work on Horace, Virgil, and Ovid. C. N. Greenough '98, Professor of English is enabled to secure an assistant and two cataloguers to assist him in preparing a bibliography of English prose fiction...
From London last week came word of another new opera in English, the libretto for which has been written by Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett, the music by Eugene Goossens. Their opera is called Judith and based on the apocryphal legend which has served many a poet and composer before them.* It will be performed at Covent Garden early this summer...
...soldiers. As one of 15 Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption of an English wire-cutting party near German trenches on a murky night...
...Montague is better known in this country for his mercurial newspaper idyll, A Hind Let Loose; for his satire on Englishmen at war, Right Off the Map and for the War-novel Rough Justice. In spite of his admixture of Irish blood, his philosophy is essentially, exceedingly English. To play the game, to accept one's fate and carry on-these are the "fiery particles" that compose the unvarying pattern of his thought. The present volume of posthumously published short stories falls short of grade-A Montague. Nevertheless it holds to the pattern. The title story concerns a middle...
...PILLOW-BOOK OF SEI SHONAGON- Translated by Arthur Waley-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). The Tale of Genji, recently done into English, revealed a highly sophisticated civilization in loth Century Japan. Lady Murasaki's novel is fiction glossed with decadent romance, but her accuracy of atmosphere and circumstance is corroborated by this loth Century Japanese diary. Sei Shonagon was in the service of Empress Sadako at the elaborate court of Heian. Not the least of her qualifications for the post was her handwriting-the cult of calligraphy amounting almost to a religion at court. Love affairs often began by some chance...