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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the most important and valuable of the Quartos from the White collection are editions of "Love's Labor Lost", London, 1598; "Romeo and Juliet", 1599; "The Sonnets", 1609; "The Merchant of Venice", 1600; and "The Merry Devil of Edmonton", one of the attributed plays, published in London...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gift of Shakespeare Quartos Strengthens Widener Collection | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...usual standard by which the worth of a library is determined is that of number of volumes, and in comparing mere numbers it is often lost sight of that size is but one of a library's requirements. No less important is the proper proportioning of the collection and the inclusion of old and rare works thereby made accessible to scholars. Widener Library has held for some years the title of the foremost college library and the fifth greatest in the world. As in inevitable in an restitution most of whose growth has taken place within a comparatively few years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE IMMANENT WILL | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...them with typhoid germs. Dr. Hyde's case was appealed and the Missouri Supreme Court cleared him. The prosecution was assisted by U. S. Senator James A. Reed. The defense was led by Frank P. Walsh, whose son and namesake last winter took the Hickman murder trial (and lost it) in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Grand Old Party | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Assistant Foreign Minister. Came in behalf of France her reputedly richest citizen, M. Louis Loucheur, not long since Finance Minister. (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925). Just prior to leaving Paris last week, M. Loucheur accepted the post of Minister of Labor, replacing unlucky M. André Falliére, who lost his parliamentary seat in the recent French election (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Council Sits | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Later, Cochet, in the more serious Auteuil finals, played against Rene Lacoste. As usual, he lost the first match, and as has been as usual recently, won the match. Cochet is champion of France and England, Lacoste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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