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TRISTAN & ISOLDE: RESTORING PALA-MEDE - John Erskine - Bobbs-Merrill...
...Holbein. "The Death of the Virgin" by Rembrandt, and works by Abraham Bosse tell much about the manner of life of people in the seventeenth century. Prints by Boucher and Fragonnard, flower designs for wall-paper and textiles after Pillemont, and a reproduction of Hogarth's "Marriage a la Mede" are illustrative of the decorative arts in the eighteenth century...
...TIME of Apr. 6, Page 15, under "Carnivora," is said: "King Darius Mede fed up his lions on Christian...
Subscriber Schaye appears to be in all respects correct. The lines TIME quoted, Darius the Mede was a king and a wonder, His eye was proud and his voice was thunder...
Darius the Mede was not an exceptionally cruel man. He merely pandered to the tastes of his subjects who, effete with a fin-de-siècle weariness, derived immense gratification from the spectacle of carnivorous animals at their meals. It is hard to think that so astute a monarch could have been vexed with the lion who succumbed to pity, shedding, it is said, small drops of woe when confronted with the lean and shivering Daniel. They only were cruel who jeered the gentle beast for his clemency...