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...Little Italies" Then Extant...
Although there are a number of copies of the work still extant, this particular volume is considered to be of special value because of its excellent condition, its well-preserved map the length of time it has remained in one family, and especially for its appended Errata which is lack-in most of the other copies...
...Spanish play, the Auto de los Reges Magos, is a midtwelfth century Epiphany play, the only extant play of this type from Spain. In the original it is but a fragment. The whole latter half of the play, as the Club is giving it, is a reconstruction based on analogous texts. It is originally in verse, but prose has been resorted to in the translation...
...Foot Guards, comprising the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards and the Scots, Welsh and Irish Guards are perhaps the most glamorously traditional of any extant fighting unit. Recently Londoners turned out by the tens of thousands as the Regiments of Guards assembled in their bright uniforms and beneath their 18-inch bearskin hats for the dedication of the Guards Memorial. Field Marshal H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught, uncle of the King-Emperor, unveiled the Guards Monument, taking in his hand as he did so the hand of General Higginson. Londoners cheered the Royal Duke and the Centenarian General...
...Ante de los Reges Magos" is the only extant Spanish religious drama of the liturgical type having two early Easter tropes, as they were called. The trope is a series of antiphonal questions and answers interpolated into the high mass at Easter...