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...collection of books printed by Bruce Rogers was given to the Library by P. J. Sachs '00, as a tribute to Charles Eliot Norton. The Christmas books of this collection are also shown. They include Miss Amy Lowell's copy of the "Christmas Epithalamium," by Hervey Allen. Only 20 copies of this edited were printed, in garamond Italic type with decorations in red. Miss Lowell also collected Christmas cards from the Merrymount Press. These wood engravings by Ruzicika, who is considered the best carver of coloured wood prints in the United States, are a feature of the exhibit...
...portraiture we find several examples that are worthy of attention. The portrait of "Hervey Wetzel" is one of the best with its fine composition, line, and tonality. It is a three-quarter length in profile against a silvery grey background. Henry Wetzel is seated on a chair, the outline of which is a soft undulating line. The splendid contrast of this with the hard vertical lines in the background adds aesthetically to the pictures. The eye also follows diagonal lines all of which form into a well balanced composition. The features themselves are obviously well done and strongly painted...
...widow. At home again, Mary Hansyke goes into her uncle's shipyards, watches the tall clippers she has built swing through the harbor of Danesacre to the wide sea; her worship of lovely ships is a more compelling idolatry than that which she offers her second husband, Hugh Hervey. She loves him deeply, but, since love and ship-building touch in her the same depths, ship-building more perfectly satisfies her sense of command. Just after her marriage...
ISRAFEL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Hervey Allen - Doran (2 vols. $10). All the light, all the shade, of Edgar Allan...
Engaged. Marcia Ann Gavit, Albany heiress of Anthony N. Brady; niece of John Palmer Gavit, famed writer of journalistic articles on education; to Charles Hervey Jackson Jr., grandnephew of one-time U. S. President Chester A. Arthur. Both now live in Santa Barbara, Calif., where Miss Gavit is a schoolgirl...