Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keats' period. Among these are a collection of editions of Keats' poems, with manuscripts, portraits, and views taken partly from the Library's own shelves, and partly from the private collections of friends. Some of the volumes have interesting personal associations. A copy of the first edition of "Endymion", lent by Mrs. Frank B. Bemis of Boston, is the copy sent by Keats to Shelley and inscribed "P. B. Shelley Esq. with J. K.'s sincere regards...
...manuscript form. About the walls of the room are hung a series of portraits, views, facsimilies, etc., illustrating various aspects of Keats' life,--his friends, his homes, the places and events he mentions in his letters, and his death, all annotated to show their significance. These have been lent by Mr. Louis A. Holman of Boston. The collections will remain on exhibition until March 5th, and on Sunday afternoon at four o'clock Professor J. L. Lowes '03 will speak on Keats in the Treasure Room...
...woodcuts shown include three cuts from one of the most popular and most important of the block-books,--the Apocalypse. They are colored by hand in the characteristic manner in this early time. A number of printed books with woodcut illustrations, lent by the Widener Library, show one of the most important uses of the woodcut and represent the art of book-illustration as it was practiced in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Germany...
...just demands for proper reparation from the invaders. Great Britain has adopted an attitude of clemency, led on by the hopes of future trade and by sympathy aroused through the false financial statement of her former enemy; and what little moral support our own government is giving is lent to the British. France, left to fight for her rights alone, is helpless. She needs aid and looks for it from America, who has been her staunchest friend...
...slightly shortened and varied to greater effect; West Avey and Dennis O'Neil were exceedingly funny in a clever "Study in Black Art"; and Ernestine Meyers contributed an exotic dance by way of variety. Mention should also be made of Jue Quon Tai, a young Chinese songsiress, who lent a novel Americanized Oriental touch to the performance with her vivacious singing and dancing...