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...Lady Sassoon-an arrogant, amazingly refined countenance portrayed with the delicate distinction characteristic of aristocracy and Sargent at their best. There, too, was one of Mr. Sargent's famed Werthheimer portraits. There was Munning's picture of the Prince of Wales on Forest Witch, his graceful chestnut mare. There was Sir James J. Shannon's portrait of the Princess Patricia, loaned by the Duke of Connaught. There were two Hogarths from The Rake's Progress series, two portraits by Reynolds, a romantic landscape by Gainsborough, a liberal representation of other 18th Century painters...
...edition of his works Mr. George Moore withdrew his book of criticism, Impressions and Opinions, substituted the present volume of conversations "to revive a form in which criticism can be conducted more agreeably than in the essay." To 121 Ebury Street, London, he invites his friends: Walter de la Mare, John Freeman, Granville Barker, Edmund Gosse, many others. Graciously, in the candlelight, by his comfortable hearth, he spins for them the shining web of his prose. Hardy is damned; Balzac exalted; one learns that the writing of George Eliot is "without pleasure," that boiled chicken has never appeared...
...Copeland Reader", which is 800 pages long, will include selections from the Bible, Shakespeare, Browning, Stevenson, Dickens and the Classics, with a varied selection from modern authors, including de la Mare, Barrie, Masefield, Mark Twain and Justice Holmes. In addition to the introduction, at the request of his publishers Professor Copeland will probably write a short interpretative comment to be inserted before each selection...
Bull rights, once popular in the U. S., are moribund. The one available bull, swart Firpo, shares the destiny of the old grey mare. Last week, in Newark, one Charles Weinert, seasoned ring roue, was given his fling at the once-wild Argentinian, and in twelve rounds caused his victim even more discomfort than did Heavyweight Champion Dempsey one summer night last year, than did big black Harry Wills two months ago. Dempsey was mercifully swift with the coup de gráce. Weinert, less forceful but imaginatively brutal, subjected the glowering, laborious, fat-ridden Firpo to nearly an hour...
Newton Victor. Another harness-horse owned by Miss Scott, which beat J. R. Thompson's mare, Clyde Iris, for the Coxe Prize. Miss Scott drove in this event, with a scarlet flower brave in the black lapel of her habit, as she drove once in the past when the Earl of Derby was watching. "There," said that old nobleman, "there?God bless my soul?goes the finest driver I have ever seen...