Word: jacobean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Canon Fellowes, who is making his first American tour, is an authority on old English music of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, having devoted many years to the collection of the English madrigals from all available known sources. Nearly a thousand old English songs, gathered from fragmentary cathedral records, have been edited by Canon Fellowes, and published in a monumental work of 36 volumes, "The English Madrigal School...
...addition to his research and publishing activities Canon Fellowes has lectured on Elizabethan and Jacobean madrigals...
...English Madrigal Composers," in which Canon Fellowes gives a study of the English madrigal from every point of view, and a critical survey of the composers of the period, and "English Madrigal Verse," a collection of all the typical verse produced by the madrigalists and lutanists of Elizabethan and Jacobean...
...toys. Ellen Terry, actress, possesses a little theatre and a collection of the plays from which its scenes derive; Charles Spencer Chaplin, cinema comedian, lightens with one his melancholy hours; G. K. Chesterton, paradoxhund, is said to play with one while thinking out his articles. Many are preserved in Jacobean farmhouses, in Tudor mansions, in dour Scotch castles, in London palaces...
...COLLECTOR'S WHATNOT-Van Loot, Kilgallen and Elphinstone - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). If you have ever bickered with an antique dealer for a genuine rat-tail spoon or a Jacobean chair that was made in Newark, you will enjoy this hilarious take-off on antiquing and antiquers. The Collector's Whatnot does for the antique-mania what The Cruise of the Kawa did for the South-Sea-craze...