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...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...
...Ante de los Reges Magos" in its original state is but a fragment. It gives the ritualistic material through the meeting of the Wisemen and Herod with free and strikingly intellectual treatment. More than any other prote type it resembles the Orleans Epiphany play, a late ritualistic drama, written, of course, in Latin...
Among Dr. Lowe's published works are "The Beneventan Script" and "The Bobbio Missal," commentaries on some notable ancient classics. He has also contributed historical, classical and theological reviews to contemporary periodicals. In 1922 Dr. Lowe discovered and published an unknown 6th Century fragment of Pliny's letter a find of considerable historic and literary value...
Anthropologists at U. S. and European museums rejoiced at one adjective in the Batavia despatch -a "complete" skull the message had said. That meant that if the upper portion should prove similar to the Dubois fragment, science could determine without aid of theory the degree of relationship between pithecanthropus and man and ape from the new skull's lower jaw, aural cavities and spinal connection...
...present season. The Queen-Empress, seated before her dressing table, pondered the advisability of adding the Koh-i-nor to her already diamond-bespangled toilet. She may have reflected that the Koh-i-nor weighs only 106 1/16 carats. She perhaps yearned secretly for the 516 ½ carat fragment of the 3025 ¾ carats (before cutting) Cullinan Diamond, the chief diadem of the British Crown. Or conceivably Her Majesty remembered that a common "engagement size" diamond (roughly 3/16 inches in diameter) weighs approximately ½ carat. The Queen-Empress, no diamond glutton, donned and adjusted inconspicuously...