Word: hume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Pedant, poet, playwright and teller of tales, each after his manner has dealt more or less faithfully with the tragic story of the pitiful Queen of Scots. Mr. Hume applies the scientific method; avoids the Charybdis of sentimentality and the Scylla of puritanism; achieves clarity and justice. The men who loved her were beyond counting, she had many suitors?but once only, as it seems, Mary had a love affair of her own. The others were merely scarlet threads woven into the texture of her ambition to succeed Elizabeth as England's queen and to restore the Catholic church...
CRUEL FELLOWSHIP-Cyril Hume- Doran ($2.50). Claude Fisher was a lonely, weak, little boy. Caught in a mutual investigation party with a tough little girl, he was told he was nasty, believed it. He had pimples and no friends-only bookish dreams of exquisite accessible females. These disgraced him at college, spoiled him for the devotion of calf-like Lucy. He fell back on sickly cynicism and the friendship of a fellow book salesman. But the salesman was called "The Violet." Revolted, Claude took up with a fox-terrier. A motor truck ended that affair, much as Author Hume ends...
Died. Mrs. Jane A. Hume, 24, wife of Author Cyril Hume (Wife of the Centaur, Cruel Fellowship); in Florence, Italy...
...made by the joiner. . . . When just 8 or 10 years of age, I read through Voltaire's history of Louis XIV and Peter the Great, and looked up all the French words I did not know and wrote them out. A little later, there was read, aloud to us Hume and Smollett's history, as well as Buchanan's, Rollin's and others; likewise Mitford's Greece; while in the evening my father read aloud Milton's Paradise Lost, Cowper's Task . . . and Dryden's works. With an Italian master, we read the works of Tasso and Metastasio. Our education...
...story, as revealed during the trial, showed that Mrs. Dennistoun lived as the mistress of Sir John Cowans with her husband's consent (denied by defendant, but supported by evidence) and, as Sir Ellis Hume Williams puts it, enabled her husband to live on her immoral earnings. It was alleged by plaintiff, denied by defendant, that several important Army positions had been secured by Mrs. Dennistoun for her husband through the General...