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...people of Scandinavia, in spite of their small numbers and their unfavorable location, have played a part in history quite out of proportion to their numerical rank. Twice they have, indeed, been the leaders of Europe. The first time was in 1630, when Gustavus Adolfus placed Sweden on a pinnacle from which she soon had to descend. Again, two and a half centuries later, Scandinavia was an arbiter, but this time in the field of letters. Ibsen, Strindberg, Bjornson formed a mighty trio of dramatists; and the greatest of these was Ibsen...
...type of property handled by the two galleries has differed little. Not so in the past: the Anderson Galleries, founded about 45 years ago and known as "Bangs," specialized in book sales; the American Galleries, which was started in the early 80's and thrived thereafter under Gustavus T. Kirby, was a far more pretentious organization. Its evening auction sales of paintings and oriental knickknacks, held at Chickering Hall, were social diversions. Manhattan art patrons would fill themselves with quail and chilled champagne, call for their broughams, and drive through the streets, quite quiet except for the soft drumming...
Professor Gustavus W. Dyer, Vanderbilt University, broke a bomb in the national veneration for F. F. V.'s.* He said that study of Southern politics proved that Virginia before the Civil War was dominated by the middle class. Seven Governors were "aristocrats by courtesy only." He adduced other statistics reducing the governing aristocracy of the South to "a soothing but insalubrious myth." Another observation: City v. Country. "Stupendous pyramiding" of city populations has increased the differences and misunderstandings between urban and rural dwellers. Let city men improve their city government. And let country men let city...
...friends whom lonely Lawyer Harris called to him were Sylvester Schiele, coal; Gustavus Loehr, mining; Harry Ruggles, printing. They sat long and late comparing notes, exchanging experiences. Then they invited 15 or 20 men, each from a different profession to minimize "shop talk," broaden the conversation and recruit "a further idea or a dynamic force...
...time when men told fortunes by the stars, when Louis XI quailed before the coursing of the planets, when Tycho Brahe observed the passage of a comet and thereupon fore told the coming of a scourge out of the North who should conquer and disappear. So was Gustavus Adolphus preceded by prophecy. So the stars entered intimately into the lives of men, Upon the story of the telescope nations waited in suspense...