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...editions of his books, illustrations for his earliest fairy tales, letters from Hugo, Heine, Balzac, Lamartine, De Vigny, the Grimm brothers and the Grand Duke of Weimar, ladies' favors, gentlemen's favors, and the souvenirs of princes, are shown there, and the German schoolchildren who went to gaze at them were told first the fantastic plot of his life, which was, after all, one of the strangest fairy stories he had anything to do with...
...unknown, unpraised, than to risk perpetuity in a museum of cadavers. Modern research, ill content with probing the affairs of life, probes death. So this boy who once ruled Egypt must stand inspection before a maudlin world, while from far and near come novelty seekers aspiring to gaze for a moment at the death masque of the Pharaoh. Shavian and eternal, the child king suffers resurrection...
...fire of dying embers, and I shall dream, and out of the shadowy past shall trail sweet memories, fragments of joys and sorrows and ambitions. Strong, white hands, angel-hands, from muted strings shall lure bushed melodies, and once again I shall stand on the steps of Widener and gaze across the beloved Yard where the wind sighs. In the branches and nimble squirrels sport themselves among the holy Ivy whose ancient tendrils had twined themselves about my heart long since...
...king is stung with the desire to fill out these billowing royal gauds, and do the king act in the grand manner of broad-shouldered Coeur de Lion or paunchy Henry VIII, let him read "Physical Culture" and reflect. His royal gaze will doubtless linger long over the sketch of a spindly person at the sea-shore with the distressing legend underneath: "Are You Ashamed to Appear in a Bathing Suit...
...wits out of himself by a ride on a roller coaster?all by paying a modest admission fee of 50c. Strangely enough over the great amusement hall is built an apartment where the owners of the entertainment dwell, and where they have a little window where they can gaze down upon the antics of the crowd below...