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...whom he married (17 years after their child was born). Eleven of Goethe's women are named by the Encyclopedia Britannica which emphasizes that he had many another. Last week, addressing young U. S. females at Barnard College, Professor Wilhelm Braun cried: "The charm of Goethe's matchless personality is explained not by the universality of his genius but by the splendid normality of his life. He has given us a pattern that will always be valid: that it is the highest duty and aim of the individual to develop his own individuality and character to the highest extent possible...
...last summer, I actually walked two miles and back to Denver on three successive Saturdays to get a copy of TIME, and I am no longer young. Hut never before have I felt like kissing the editor on both cheeks as when I read in the current issue his matchless rejoinder to a supercilious fanatic anent the use of an innocuous expletive. It served him right, for he betrays a mentality which even TIME can never hope to enlighten...
...book has small interest to the lovers of biography, for it is primarily intended for students of the history of literature. The Matchless Orinda led the uninteresting life of wife of a country gentleman of that period and died before she had even reached her prime. Of the small details of her life, which would be necessary to create an attractive biography there remain almost none. Dr. Souers has been forced to reconstruct a large part of her life from her letters and sporadic poems...
...students of Seventeenth Century English literature the publication of this book on the life and works of Katherine Philips by Dr. Souers will come as a welcome event. Orinda (this was the enchanting pseudonym under which Mrs. Philips went) was considered worthy by her age to be called the matchless, but posterity has not been so indulgent with its favor and consequently a reliable copy of her writings is now very rare. In his critical study of the poetess the author has included all of the important products of her none-too-fluent pen, especially her highly interesting letters...
...Puritan and wife of a Puritan, she was, nevertheless, a Cavalier at heart and remained secretly loyal during the Commonwealth. Thus she carried the tradition of the earlier Cavalier poets over to the Restoration, soon after which she began to reap the praise of her contemporaries, including Dryden. The Matchless Orinda has now settled to her proper classification as one of the better of the minor poets...