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...sale in the Times Square district. He worked on the theory that the Grub Street products of an age had a distinct place in its literary history. William W. Watt, in his essay on the penny, sixpenny and shilling Gothic stories that persisted long after "Frankenstein" and "The Monk" had passed out of fashion, has proved this unanswerably...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: BOOKENDS | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

...Watt has divided the "Shockers" into two groups, the castle and the convent stories. The differences between the two is merely a matter of architecture and costume. The "blue-beard baron" and the "murderous monk" for instance, both seduce virtuous maidens, and persecute heroes...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: BOOKENDS | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

...feel keenly the tug of new winds of liberal doctrine, and in the words of one who was a Freshman at the time. "It seemed a backward step to take a man with a white lawn tie, a black frock coat, side whiskers and the pallor of a medieval monk, to preside over a college devoted chiefly to the liberal arts." Patton had been a Presbyterian pastor, and a professor in the Princeton Theological School; he had a claustral and philosophic austerity that raised fears for the new administration among both students and graduates. Quite to the contrary of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANCIS L. PATTON | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

Despite the protest of his friends, M. Ernest Perrier, a Swiss delegate to the Disarmament Conference, announced last week "after many months of reflection" his resignation-in order to become a Benedictine monk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Disarming Monk | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

Negroes venerate especially: the Martyrs of Uganda; St. Benedict the Moor, 16th Century slaveborn monk; and St. Peter Claver, S. J., famed for his work in the early slave markets in Cartagena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saints' Fellow Citizens | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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