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When a reputable man of letters such as John Drinkwater writes a flattering biography of such a tycoon as Carl Laemmle (TIME, May 4), angels weep, men laugh knowingly. When famed and popular Author André Maurois writes a no less flattering account of his still-extant compatriot, Marshal of France Hubert Lyautey, angels may control themselves but men will exchange speculative glances. There is no comparison between the two books, as jobs, nor between the two men who form their subjects. But after reading Lyautey and remembering Ariel, you cannot help feeling that this horn-toot by Andr...
...criticism, that "the fragment was the literary genre which was natural to Coleridge, and only in the fragments of marginalia was he entirely himself," he anticipates the present reviewer's reaction to the work in hand. In the first of these two carefully edited volumes appear all of those extant fragments while in the second are contained the reports of the poet's numerous lectures on the subject...
...Coopwood camels, they were turned loose in Arizona where they thrived, propagated. In 1870 a Nevada saltminer rounded up 25 to pack his wares in the Carson River district. In 1895 two carloads were shipped to Chicago for exhibition. A few were still visible in 1905, may still be extant...
When the doors of Burlington House open there will be on view 100 carpets, more than 1,000 textiles, 1,500 paintings & drawings, hundreds of the finest extant Persian book covers, more than 1,000 pieces of faïence, a priceless collection of illuminated manuscripts, bronzes from Achaemenian and Sassanian times, sculpture, architectural and ornamental detail, friezes, ceramics, enamel, glassware, brocades, velvets, tapestries, gold and silver work, a unique collection of Saljuk silverware, gold and silver inlay, lacquer work. Notable will be a group of remarkably preserved bronze Achaemenian objects of great sculptural beauty and vigor recently unearthed...
...experimentalist Paris quarterly), June 1929. Said the Proclamation: "We hereby declare that: (1) The revolution in the English language is an accomplished fact. . . . (12) The plain reader be damned." Hart Crane is noted among left-wing litterateurs for his "mighty line," is credited with writing the mightiest line now extant. In this book, a series of poems on the U. S., mighty lines abound. Examples...