Word: essayistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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whimsical essayist and scholarly Medievalist, will teach with five other Medieval scholars in its Institute of Medieval Studies. Their object: "To bring Medieval philosophies to bear on present social, economic and political problems...
Physician-Author Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Justice's father, was and still is popularly famed as a poet and essayist. But the fame of his pioneer work in conquering the scourge of puerperal (childbed) fever will be fresh when The Chambered Nautilus and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table are moldering on scholars' shelves. So, too, his own world has saluted Mr. Justice Holmes as the first jurist and first gentleman of his time. But the world a century hence may well honor him best as a great philosopher, whose creative thought chanced to be channelled into...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE-Marvin Lowenthal-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). An autobiography of the famed French essayist pieced together from his own essays, letters...
...FOOL OF LOVE-Hesketh Pearson- Harper ($3.50). Sympathetic, lively biography of the late great Essayist William Hazlitt...
Speaking on an unannounced subject, Hilaire Belloc, English biographer and essayist, will address the League of Catholic Women at the Copley Plaza Hotel on Sunday at 3 o'clock. Students may purchase tickets for $1.00 at 8 de Wolfe Street. Admission prices at the door will...