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Dates: during 1920-1929
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RABELAIS-Anatole France-Holt ($5). THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS, AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND His SON PANTA-GRUEL-trans, from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux. In one volume.-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). On the banks of the Loire between Meung and Orleans there is a bubbling well by which "the master" sat, and a stone table on which he is said to have written. Add a weeping willow tree, and the late great Anatole France has made a Chinese sage of Rabelais-scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture before Argentine audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vagabond Monk | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Readers of this Bulletin are hereby offered a splendid opportunity to augment their libraries through the purchase of the following items. "The History of the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, Don Quixote." This work is standard, being translated from the Spanish by P. A. Motteux. It is a four volume set, the books being octavos and the plates used are those of Harper & Brothers. The volumes are bound sturdily in green cloth with paper labels. The price is $7.25 per set postpaid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brief Bits About Books | 11/2/1923 | See Source »

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