Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater work and a more inclusive one is Elie Faure's History of Art,* now being published in English by Harper. The third volume, on Renaissance Art, has come from the press, preceded by Ancient and Medieval, and to be followed by Modern. The books are not easy to read, but they repay a little delving. Faure is a brilliant stylist, his word-stream brimming with metaphor and colorful imagery, always intent upon inner meaning, and emotional overtones, so that his writing is obscure to those who expect mere surface description. But the translation is itself an admirable work...
Dana: 1--34 (21) E.B. Greene '26; 35--49 (43) C.H. Harper...
...former President of Amherst College explains in the November Harper's what he meant by asserting recently that the greatest danger confronting our colleges is that of being "drawn into the common life." But the prophets and apostles of the Ku Klux Klan propose to draw them in with a vengeance. Princeton is the latest to be told that she cannot remain "in her own little eddy of oblivion while the rising tide of the greatest moral and political movement sweeps by". This particular champion of the Klan, being a lady as well as a "bishop," is naturally strong...
...Plutarch's Lives." This set consisting of five volumes printed on a fine quality white paper from the Harper & Brothers plates and bound strongly in red cloth with paper labels, is the translation called Dryden's and is corrected from the Greek and revised by a. H. Clough. The work has Dr. Wm. Smith's historical notes and is illustrated. It may be obtained for $9.00 postpaid...
...Works of Plato," edited by Benjamin Jowett, printed from Harper & Brothers plates on fine paper bound in strong red cloth with paper labels may be had for &7.35 postpaid...