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...comparatively rich in Egyptian, Classical, Gothic, Renaissance and Modern. Of that whole period from the 4th to the 13th Century referred to by Victorian professors as the dark ages, U. S. collections have scarcely anything but a few fragments of Romanesque sculpture, an occasional porphyry column or bit of mosaic. This period is completely covered by the Welfenschatz. Earliest of the pieces is an 8th Century enamel plaque bearing a pop-eyed head of Christ. Latest is a silver relic cross made in 1483. Most important artistically is a casket reliquary in the form of a Byzantine church of gold...
...bought a large estate in Oyster Bay, L. I., hard by Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill. Here he designed and built an amazing house, "Laurelton Hall." which looks a little like a M axfield Parrish palace, a little like a factory, is magnificently kept up and contains a mosaic chapel, greenhouses, fountains, innumerable stained glass windows, rubber trees, orchids, and, frightening to children, a colossal bronze crab...
...Barnard Arch. Critical eyebrows raised slightly to learn that it is to be of blue tombstone granite, 120 ft. high, 60 ft. wide, covered with an intricate icing of nine-foot, white marble figures: nursing mothers, pregnant women, soldiers, supermen. Over the top will go a rainbow of colored mosaic glass...
...chief Fascist newsorgan, Volkische Beobachter of Munich is explicit: 1) all Jews who have entered Germany since Aug. 2, 1914 would be expelled; 2) the term "Jew" would mean anyone whose ancestors practiced the Mosaic faith after March 11, 1852; 3) Jews would be banned from service in the German army or navy, would pay a special tax by reason of this "exemption"; 4) Jews would not be admitted to schools of higher learning, either as teachers or instructors; 5) sales of land to Jews would be void; 6) Jewish-owned newsorgans would be compelled to state that fact...
...Wurts, like one of the social dragonesses in The Cabala, famed novel by Thornton Niven Wilder, is a rich, enigmatic fragment in the age-old mosaic of Roman society. Tremendously dim, tremendously "important," she lives in the via dei Funari; the twisted "Street of the Rope Makers," on a floor of the Palazzo Mattei. Two other floors are occupied respectively by Principe Lodovico Mattei, himself, and by fidgety but obsequious Don Guido Antici-Mattei, a relation who is probably poor but, like rich Mrs. Wurts, tremendously dim, tremendously important to the Wurts Cabala...