Word: essay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forster read the opera scene in "Where Angels Fear to Tread," the chapter on the caves and part of the last chapter of "A Passage to India," the symphony scene in "Howard's End," and 'My Wood," an essay. Asked about an antipathy for Schumann expressed in one of his works, Forster explained that he had "changed over Schumann," and inquired how the Americans now regard that composer...
Holbrook Jackson's essay about Books Bound in Human Skin, which tells of a Russian poet who had lost a leg in a hunting accident, and used the discarded skin to bind a collection of his own love lyrics. Hides from many an aristocrat are said to have been used by leaders of the French Revolution to bind the works of their Patron-Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. Correctly tanned and dressed, human hide, says Author Jackson, is definitely comparable in texture and quality to good morocco...
...querulous essay, the late Robert Benchley asks Why Does Nobody Collect Me? "I have been told by hospital authorities," says Humorist Benchley coldly, "that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. It does seem as if people might at least take my books home with them." Benchley offers for sale the following rare editions: 1) Pluck and Luck (Holt, 1924), by Robert Benchley-"a very interesting find for collectors" since it is inscribed by Author Benchley to his friend, Donald Ogden Stewart, whose name is misspelled "Stuart"; 2) Ernest Hemingway...
Vincent Starrett's The Fine Art of Forgery, an essay on human gullibility whose principal hero is French Forger Vrain-Denis Lucas. Spry M. Lucas sold to a contemporary collector (for 150,000 francs): 27 letters from Shakespeare to his friends, "communications from St. Luke and Julius Caesar, from Sappho, Virgil, Plato, Pliny, Alexander the Great, and Pompey. These . . . were somewhat eclipsed by such unusual items as a letter from Cleopatra to Caesar discussing their son Caesarion, a little note from Lazarus to St. Peter, and a chatty bit of gossip from Mary Magdalene to the King...
...essay Lyons discloses an annual $1 million overcharge by garbage collectors. A hardy little band of contractors has gained control of all the convenient disposal dumps and eliminated competition in the bidding. When only one bidder has a place for disposal, there can be only one effective bid, Lyons points...