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Will Rogers, damp and disillusioned, cast a sad eye through the fog that has settled upon the convention at Cleveland, and after recovering from the din of his own typewriter, wrote that "the Oklahoma delegation brought a fiddler, but when he heard all the silence he started crying and broke his fiddle." "The city," in sheer desperation, he thought, "is opening up the churches now and having services so the delegates and visitors can go and hear some singing or excitement of some kind...
...subtract, follower of the "Oninvisible and the Onbeheord-of," keen admirer of "this fine pretty world," and frequent tenant of the county jail, is introduced with delightful effect. There are also the native flapper, Goldy, and her dangling swain, Roosh. A pleasing picture of the two old people, Lark Fiddler and Granny Maggot is finely drawn. Gilly Maggot and his scrawny, belligerent, and faithful wife, Mag, furnish excellent character material. Here also the plot makes its appearance--a rather ordinary, but well-executed comedy plot which develops out of Beem's meddling attempts to help Gilly "git shet...
...masterpieces in engraving including Pollainole's Battle of the Nudes, Mantegna's Virgin and Child, and Battle of the Lea Gods; Albrecht Durer's Melancholia, Knight of Death, Adam and Eve, St. Gerome in his Cell; Rembrandt's Three Trees, and Three Crosses; and the Black Lion Wharf, and Fiddler; by Whistler. A group of old engraver's tools serve to make clearer the technical processes, and to make the exhibition more interesting...
...etchings by Whistler are largely from the Thames set etched about 1859, and include very fine impressions of the Black Lion Wharf, the Lime Burners, The Pool and Little Pool. The portrait of Bocquet, "The Fiddler", bears in Whistler's handwriting, the words "Fine proof". There are also several etchings of a later period, showing his later style, from the Venice subjects--as "The Doorway", "Rialto", and "Furnace Nocturne". The "Nocturne Palaces" is one of Whistler's famous Nocturnes and shows the effect which he produces in the wiping of the plate...
...contributions in verse outnumber those in prose. Indeed the issue is a veritable nest of singing-birds. The two poems already mentioned well represent the creditable average of all this verse. One contribution, "The Fiddler," by Cuthbert Wright, rises distinctly above it in a certain sureness and aptness in dealing with a topic not too macabre to lie within the writer's power. Of the two offerings in vers libre, one, the anonymous "Hermes," falls clearly below the average in leaving one uncertain whether it is seriously or humorously modelled upon the accepted pattern of the imagists. Another poem, "Middle...