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...stands for Daniel B. Fearing, a former mayor of Newport who donated, in 1915, several thousand titles having to do with fish and fishing. "What a gold mine," thought Gridley, "everything is here. The sixteenth-century Ius Fluviaticum bound luxuriously in vellum with metal clasps and that Mexican masterwork, Piscicultura in Agua Dulce. To say nothing of Tricks That Take Fish and all fifteen editions of British Rural Sports." On a lower shelf he noticed two copies of Fish I Have Known by Arthur H. Beavan, author of Birds I Have Known and Animals I Have Known. Pulling...
Rooms at the Top. The big four are by no means the only places in Manhattan to buy a masterwork. For certain living masters-Miró, Giacometti or Balthus, for instance-the place to go is the gallery owned by Pierre Matisse, son of Painter Henri Matisse. The Perls Galleries represent Calder and Archipenko, and they do a reputable business in "painters of the Picasso generation" like Braque, Modigliani, Soutine and Utrillo. Catherine Viviano on East 57th Street is strong on modern Italians like Afro and Cremonini, but she also represents the surrealist Kay Sage and the estate...
...comprehensive a project as Christianity in a Revolutionary Age might be the masterwork of a lesser historian. For Latourette, the series occupies only a modest corner in the personal five-foot shelf of books he has written or contributed to. In all, he has 88 titles to his credit, including a seven-volume history of Christianity from its beginnings until World War I. Historian Latourette is also that academic rarity-a specialist in two separate fields. Rivaling his fame as a chronicler of Christianity is his reputation as a leading Orientalist: he has written four books on China, including...
...Teilhard industry. Circumspectly edited by his cousin, Claude Aragonnes. Father Teilhard's Letters from a Traveller (Harper; $4) contains a smattering of the vast correspondence he carried on with friends and relatives-often from archaeological campsites in such spots as the Gobi desert. Unlike his metaphysical masterwork The Phenomenon of Man (TIME, Dec. 14. 1959) or his mystical treatise on The Divine Milieu (TIME, Feb. ID. 1961), Teilhard's letters are largely free of neologisms, contain wise and witty comments on a world he clearly loved, and clearly saw sub specie aeternitatis. A sampling of Teilhardisms...
Falla conceived of La Atlantida as his life's masterwork. a Spanish Parsifal, throbbing with epic Wagnerian themes and massive Wagnerian thunder. He took his title and story from the Catalonian epic by Jacinto Verdaguer-a tale of the lost continent of Atlantis, destroyed for its sins, and of Spain preserved to export Christianity to the New World...