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...Landor," Professor Rollins, Emerson...
...graduated; at 30 he had lost his first wife, his faith in his clerical calling, everything but his faith in himself and Nature's Neo-Platonic Over-Soul. To prove himself, to share his thought with others, he went to Europe, saw its civilized sights, met its civilizing men. Landor, Coleridge, Wordsworth and especially Carlyle delighted him. After a year he returned to Concord knowing what...
ROSAMOND LEHMANN'S new novel takes its title from a quotation from W.S. Landor, "But the present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come". The story is closely related to the mood expressed by Landor. It opens with several well chosen scenes that picture the everyday life of two picture the everyday life of two English couples living in a Northern industrial town...
...poets are apt to develop a weakness for epigrams. Sometimes they achieve their most beautiful thoughts in these short, effortless three or four lines. Thus Landor like, Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet and mystic, in his sixty-seventh year has compiled such a collection which he calls FIREFLIES (Macmillan Co., New York, 1928, $2.50). On the flyleaf is Tagore's explanatory inscription, "Fireflies had their origin in China and Japan where thoughts were very often claimed from me in my handwriting of fans and pieces of silk...
...most literary translation into Latin of the conversation between Marcus Tullius Cicero and Quinctus Cicero in William Savage Landor's "Imaginary Conversations" there is a $50 award. The selection to be translated includes everything from the opening of the conversation to the Words "remembering longer among...