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...Transportation Money & Banking Indus. Organization Public Finance Eng. Sci. Public Utilities Economic Theory 25 English 7 34 9-12 15 5-7 19 Drama, Poetry Eliz. Prose, Poet. 16th & 17th Cent. Infl. of Fr. Lit. on Eng. Lit. of 16th Century Hist of Eng Lang Eng. Drama Eliz. Lit. Jacobean Lit. Carolin Lit. Eng. Prosidy Eng. & Slav. Lit. Novel 17th & 19th Cent. Poetry & Comp. Contemporary Lit. American Lit. Composition Fine Arts Geol. Sci. 4 2 4 10 1-2 German 2 Government 17-23 6 5-7 3 6 8 7-8 Int'nat'l Relations Federal Gov. & Pol. Theory...
...respectful description of the royal train. Said the Mail: "Not even Hollywood stars or Argentine millionaires own more luxurious railroad saloons. The King's smoking compartment [is fitted] with apple green leather and fiddleback mahogany, while the Queen's boudoir saloon has paler green silk upholstery and Jacobean oak furniture. Her sleeping compartment is decorated in blue and there is a pink marble bathroom adjoining." ¶ Not to be outdone by the railroads, Scottish bus companies began uniforming their conductors in kilts and blazers embroidered with the companies' initials. Chided the Manchester Guardian: "From blazers...
Portraits in Miniature is a short book (214 small pages) but contains 18 biographies in parvo. They are like unusually well-written, extremely urbane short stories. Some of their subjects: Elizabethan Sir John Harington, who, "suddenly inspired," invented the water-closet. Jacobean Dr. North, Master of Trinity College (Cambridge), whom illness transmogrified from a scrupulous moralist into a ribald debauchee. The Président de Brosses, the man who got the better of Voltaire over a bill for firewood. Mary Berry, last survivor of the 18th Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen...
...court with details of: a. An Italian Gothic or Spanish arcade. b. An Elizabethan house. (5.) A central book tower armored with extremely heavy masonry under Romanesque inspiration, pierced by Early English lancet windows. (6.) Interiors designed with elaborate vaulting, Tudor bosses, medieval roof-painting, and furniture of Jacobean influence. (7.) A room in early Colonial style. (8.) Certain rooms to be decorated in High Renaissance style...
...five years British and Scottish stonemasons chipped and hammered in the Asheville woods while Mr. Vanderbilt toured Europe, sending back carload after carload of French furniture, Gothic cabinets, Jacobean tables, Japanese ivories. On Christmas day, 1895, Vanderbilts assembled to walk through the magnificent gardens laid out by Frederick Law Olmstead, designer of New York's Central Park, to attend the official housewarming of Biltmore House. An assembled chateau, it is designed chiefly after the Chateau de Blois. There was nothing in North America to approach it; no other Vanderbilt had so fine a home...