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...display includes a few of the best known masterpieces of Persian manuscript illumination, as well as 40 to 50 examples of glazed and luster wares decorated for the most part with brilliantly colored ornament and drawing...
...hasty burlesque of Sherwood Anderson's books, was written, so tradition has it, at the instigation of F. Scott Fitzgerald, to end Hemingway's relations with his publisher, Horace Liveright. Plot was that Liveright, annoyed at the ribbing of his star author, Sherwood Anderson, would refuse the manuscript, thus leaving Hemingway free to join Friend Fitzgerald at Scribners. At any rate, so it turned out. Scribners took the dud Torrents of Spring, thus securing a bestseller, The Sun Also Rises, as well as all Hemingway's subsequent books. From then on, Author Hemingway was sitting pretty...
Books from the libraries of the Presidents of the United States, manuscript texts used in Harvard classes in the early eighteenth century, special editions of "Alice in Wonderland," and material relative to eight plays of Shakspere, form a major part of the first exhibit of the season at Widener Library...
...Gone With the Wind were big novels, publishers have lately favored what might be called the Weights & Measures Theory. This week Publisher Macmillan again subscribed to this theory with the announcement that And So-Vic-toria weighed 7! Ib. in typescript, ran to over 1,600 pages in manuscript, 618 pages in print, and was going to be a successor to Gone With The Wind. Critics were not so optimistic. Some believed that the newcomer's size might be due to glandular trouble. Others thought it might choke to death on its title...
...Browning's works there is shown "Love Among the Ruius" written in a minute hand and on four little scraps of paper. Mrs. Browning's well-known "Aurora Leigh" is revealed in its primitive form as a printer's manuscript...