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...crypt of St. Peter's, a tomb lay covered with flowers. Heavy candles diffused their ethereal light, revealing black-draped and kneeling figures, bent in devout prayer. A slight murmur of subdued voices disturbed the restful silence. Occasionally, the firm voice of a prelate would rise above the murmur as he pronounced a benediction, or sometimes low, sad chants would break the stillness. Close to the tomb were two elderly sisters of the dead, absorbed in reciting the Ave Maria, as they tremblingly counted their beads. All that long day, figures shuffled in and shuffled out of the crypt...
SUNRISE TRUMPETS?Joseph Auslander?Harper ($2.00). Lyric poems, intense, fragmentary, abruptly lovely; their chiseled imagery entirely unhackneyed and often breathtakingly beautiful. One hears the "bronze murmur of bees," feels a ship at night "lifted to the level of the rime-stung stars," knows the "shattered silver" and "crushed gray light" of rain, and the devastating beauty of women long dead?Yseult, Marie Antoinette, Guinevere...
Political diagnosticians regard the Senator's misfortune as an evil symptom for the third party movement. No other insurgent has equal vim, vigor, vitality. No other has as great a following. Regular Republicans, kneeling by their beds before blowing out the evening candle, murmur: "And may Fighting Bob recover, but let third parties perish in miserable confusion. Amen...
Four hundred years ago, any, bold spirit who broached the possibilities of thought transference would have been immediately fried in oil or pleasantly stimulated, perhaps, with red hot pincers. Times change, however. Galileo, in an effort to keep his self respect without losing his head, was forced to murmur his truths to himself in a defliant which per; but when the modern student can learn without a quiver that a new universe has been discovered from which light takes a million years to travel to the earth, it is safe to assert that the world is becoming shock-proof...
...containing the names of all living Harvard men, numbering more than 43,000. We trus, that it may be to you a fireside friend, speaking to you as the voice of Harvard; and that in the sunshine of the morning and the quiet of the evening this voice may murmur to you, in a melody charming as the harp of Orpheus, of the admiration, gratitude and love of the men of Harvard, and breathe to you their prayer that your years may be long in the house of your