Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Memorial Room the most noteworthy manuscript is the "Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D." This is entirely in Scott's own handwriting, and is in the uncorrected form. The first edition of "Ivanhoe" in the original boards should also attract bibliophiles. The first edition of "Vanity Fair" with Thackeray's own illustrations rivals the previously mentioned copy in rarity. The copy has the woodcut of Marcus Steyne which was later suppressed. There is, finally, an unpublished manuscript of Charlotte Broute's entitled, "Adventures of Captain Hasting," and several signed first editions of "Clarissa," and "Moll Flanders...
Ariadne, never among the most successful of Strauss operas, has had frequent amendments. In its present form there is a prologue and one act, which makes a play within the play. Ariadne, tragically abandoned by Theseus, must listen to the cajolery of Zerbinetta, the comedienne; listens to learn and herself turns finally to Bacchus. All this Strauss has set to droll, delightful music which demands more of his singers' virtuosity than of his own originality. Philadelphia singers lacked the necessary virtuosity last week but Alexander Smallens almost atoned with his 37-piece orchestra...
Insurance. Home Insurance Co. and National Liberty Insurance Co., with their subsidiaries (a total of 12 companies) merged last week to form the largest fire insurance system in the world. Assets: over...
...Reed had learned his law in two good schools. As a graduate of the Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh), he had gone first to the office of his lawyer uncle, famed David Reed of Pittsburgh. Five years of study and he was ready, in 1877, to form a partnership with Philander C. Knox, later U. S. Senator, later Secretary of State...
...miles northwest of "The Point," where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers meet to form the mighty Ohio, and where Fort Duquesne (1754), became the nub of Pittsburgh, Brunot's Island is now within the city limits. Pittsburgh's harbor, crowded with pleasure boats, barges, steamships, extends about 30 miles along its three rivers...