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Another work, which will be published sometime this month, is a new translation of the "Essays of Montaigne" by the publication of Mr. Ive's new work, in four volumes, the fruit of years of labor and effort, is the first new American translation of the famous French essayist to be published in 255 years. Although Charles Cotton's translation of 1670 has been changed greatly in its subsequent editions, it has still remained unsatisfactory for modern use. With the publication of Mr. Ives' new work, there will at last be adequate and up-to-date interpretation of both...
...friends knew that he made a practice of writing privately about his finds and adventures, and unbeknownst to him arranged for the publication of The Amenities of Book Collecting (1918), rapidly multiplying editions of which soon established him as an essayist of rank and led to A Magnificent Farce, Dr. Johnson: A Play, and the present volume...
Died. Arthur Christopher Benson, 63, essayist, biographer, poet; in London. Son of the late Edward W. Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, brother of Edward F. Benson and the late Hugh Benson, both novelists, he came of a family famed in English letters...
Died. Miss Amy Lowell, 51, famed poet, essayist, critic and biographer of Keats (TIME, Mar. 2) ; in Brookline, Mass., of a paralytic stroke...
...been arranged that, if the winner of the Princeton contest prefers, he may take a trip of his own planning, not to exceed $586 in cost. Similar arrangements will be made for the CRIMSON prize essayist, if he so desires...