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...list. We must bear with Mr. Wells, and remember that if it isn't a great book, it is at least as great as the others included here, for it is the chef d'ocuvre of Copernicus. Shakespeare, the invariable choice of critics, is ignored in favor of Marco Polo's "Travels". Wells considers that the latter book was responsible for the discovery...
...When Marco Polo returned from the East there had been no World War. His story was not muffled by the thunder of national cataclysms. He set the West by the ears, and opened new paths of activity and progress to the existing civilization. Dr. Ferdinand Ossendowski, author of "Beasts, Men and Gods", is another Polo if ever there was one; but unfortunately in the whirling events of today his startling epic is too apt to be passed over, or classified as just "another of those war books...
...November he wrote a series on the Anti-Saloon League and told more secrets about that organization than Marco Polo did about China...
...Radcliffe Choral Society it will present an operetta "The Gondoliers" in the last week of April. The principal male parts have been assigned to the following: Luiz L. R. Ring Sp. Duke T. D. Cairns '23 Don Alhambra L. W. Elder 3G. Guisette E. F. Knauth Jr. '24 Marco N. L. Bean '25 Antonio A. W. Daggett...
...accordance with the custom of exhibiting from time to time single loans of interest, the Fogg Art Museum is now showing in its Gallery a small painting by Fra Angelico. The painting is doubtless one of a series of panels which formerly formed the predella to the San Marco Altarpiece. Other of these predella panels are in the Academy at Florence; in Munich; in the National Gallery, Dublin; and in the Louvre. The panels represent scenes from the lives of St. Cosmo and St. Damian. The scene portrayed in the panel now at the Fogg Museum doubtless represents the "lady...