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...French-supported Florentine republic, extant since 1494, fell before the Spanish-supported Medici. Giuliano acquired the title of Gonfaloniere of the Papal Forces. He was the ruler of the so-called republic. He played host at gala fetes and mingled with men of genius. But he was still a mediocre Medici, displaying no creative gifts, governmental or artistic. He died in 1516, when only...
...modern popular biography has come abundantly, desperately, to his rescue. Author Lee, spirited Texan Methodist clergyman, enriches a sound, engrossing history with cogent anecdote and incident. Author Lipsky, Jewish student of psychology, makes a shrewd analysis of the itinerant preacher who founded, in spite of himself, the largest extant Protestant denomination...
Smart Richard Montague last week discovered that the famed Keith-Albee Corp. considers Lindbergh, Mussolini and the Prince of Wales to be the most valuable box-office attractions now extant. To each they would pay $10,000 a week. President Coolidge or President-Elect Hoover could get $3,000. Al Smith could get $7,000. Queen Mary is worth $5,000. Queen Marie is worth...
...clay figures, turned to a sort of a terra-cotta when fire was set to the temple and which show unmistakable signs of hellenistic influence. From another temple of the eighth century come many Sanskrit and Tokharian manuscripts, and also figures carved in wood, including the oldest woodblock extant, cut before 800 A. D., for printing an image of Buddha...
...through my hands, about one thousand a day. Finally, I bought all of them which were of some interest, in Chinese in Sanskrit, in Tibetan, in Logdian, in Eastern Iranian, most of them Buddhistic, but some also Nestrian, Manichaean, even a Hebrew book of prayers, and also the earliest extant manuscripts of the Chineses classic and of some other Chinese works of a historical or literary character, all of them ranging from the fifth to the tenth century of our era. As to the origin of the collection, I formed then a theory which has stood the test of time...