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...minds of men; wind and damp loosen paint from canvas. Were this not so, there would be no poets, nor would there have been a panic in Milan 16 years ago. Cause of that panic was the fact that a certain Prof. Cavenaghi had discovered that Leonardo Da Vinci's famed Last Supper was crumbling away. The immortal paint was drying from the canvas. Cavenaghi restored it. Recently another Professor, one Silvestri, noticed while dusting the picture that many parts untouched by Cavenaghi were in like danger of drying, of crumbling. He set himself to perform what Cavenaghi...
...Leonardo da Vinci, a Psychosexual Study of Infantile Reminiscence...
...years of college life is taking an impressive gamble with the gods of chance. When he emerges from the strain of intellectual competition, or as one critic would prefer, the pernicious influences of a vapid university atmosphere, he may find himself a second Shakespeare, a second Dante, a second Leonardo; of his family may discover to their horror that all he can remember of his past life is a somewhat garbled version of "Mr.--is requested to call...
...American university, is not one of the nation's virtues. In fact it may fairly he said that here the eccentric is more than ignored: he is actively avoided; which may explain why the country's Hall of Fame so far lacks a Beothoven, a Milton, or a Leonardo...
DRAMATIS PERSONAE - Arthur Sy-mons-Bobbs, Merrill ($2.00). A book of essays on such subjects as Conrad, Emily Bronte, the Decadent Movement in Literature, On French and English Fiction, Leonardo da Vinci, that are distinguished more by a mild charm of manner than by any signs of hard thinking or remarkable critical skill...