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...life history of Rembrandt is obscure and conjectural. It is known that he was born in 1606, son of a Leyden miller, that he studied only briefly. He married the rich Saskia van Ulenburgh, and after her death took his servant Hendrikje Stoffels as mistress. He enjoyed popular favor for a time, but lost it when his Night Watch heartily displeased the members of the Banning Cock guard, who had paid for their portraits, not for a dramatic episode. Bankruptcy followed plenty. He died in disgrace and poverty. In addition to many miraculous etchings, there are hundreds of paintings signed...
...foremost Dutch novelist, was born in Delft (famed for ceramics and Painter Jan Van Delft Vermeer) of a family of doctors and lawyers. Her early writings awoke parental anxiety. At 20 she married, discontinued writing until her two sons were in school. When her husband became director of the Leyden gas works she began to write again. Charming, accomplished linguist, learned in stage lore, she wrote plays, novels, about actresses. Visiting the U. S. in 1925 she saw enough to write of U. S. family life in Tantalus. Other books in translation: The House of Joy, The Rebel Generation...
...Reverend Douglas Horton, Minister of Leyden Church, Congregational, Brookline, will conduct the service in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...Reverend Douglas Horton, Minister of Leyden Church, Congregational, Brookline, will conduct the service in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...Reverend Douglas Horton, Minister of Leyden Church, Congregational, Brookline, will conduct the service in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...