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...Joyces (wife Nora, son Giorgio) lived in Paris. His daughter Lucia, who suffered from a nervous disorder, was in a sanatorium near St. Nazaire. A devoted father, Joyce worried much about Lucia, spent a good part of the income left him by Admirer Harriet Weaver on Lucia's doctor and sanatorium bills. When war broke out, he hurried to St. Nazaire...
...Emily Posts of domestic art and decoration are two white-haired, spinster sisters, Harriet and Vetta Goldstein. They have spent their lives teaching in the home economics department of the University of Minnesota, have written a book together (Art in Everyday Life) which has long been a bible to home economics classes from Maine to the Middle West and has been translated into Chinese. Their book tells how to choose colors in rugs and draperies, how to arrange furniture in a room, how to balance knick-knacks on a mantelpiece and food on a plate, how to dress tastefully...
Last fortnight, Harriet and Vetta Goldstein got out a new trade edition (the first in nine years) of Art in Everyday Life (Macmillan; $5). Largely rewritten, and with its chapters on women's dress cut down to generalizations on form and color (the previous edition's fashions too specific, were left lurching), the new Art in Everyday Life aims to be as modern as Picasso, as fashionably up-to-the-minute as Swedish glassware and Frank Lloyd Wright housing...
...Harriet and Vetta Goldstein, who even lecture jointly, live quietly with their mother, Mrs. Hannah Goldstein, in a neat, red brick apartment building overlooking St. Paul's Langford Park. Their small apartment is carefully decorated according to the rules in Art in Everyday Life. Even their hobbies are collaborative: taking pictures with Leica cameras, making pewter plates and hand-printed draperies. To University of Minnesota home economists their prim, judicious maxims are cultured pearls of wisdom. Samples...
Biographer White is charmed by the steadfastness with which, during his lifetime of 30 years, Shelley indulged his "passion for reforming the world." He traces every step of it: Shelley's elopement with Harriet Westbrook; their attempts to reform Ireland and Wales; Shelley's desertion of Harriet for Mary (Frankenstein) Godwin, and Harriet's suicide ; his inheritance of a fortune; their last, tragic days in Italy. There Shelley encouraged revolution in Spain, Naples, Greece, England; there he wrote his most important verse; there he drowned. Wrote the Tory Courier: "Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry...