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...Count was "a tall supple figure, indefinite features, eyes which in Bismarck's opinion were enough to spoil the best breakfast, large soft hands, a Narcissus-like grace of bearing . . . brilliantly witty. . . . This remarkable, many-sided man ... is the seductive picture of an aristocratic Cagliostro, formed to bewitch the young Prince." Soon Eulenburg could write in his diary: "The Prince's affection for me was an ardent one . . . my musical performances drove him into almost feverish, raptures . . . always sitting beside me and turning the pages . . . and he loved to greet me with turns and phrases from my verses...
Academic thoughts and fancies should, and probably will, fade as quickly as the iris and narcissus so carefully planted in one's rooms only to bloom for the janitor's delectation during Christmas vacation. But strange to say, the world will be no husk, no empty shell. There will be left, among other things...
...Conrad. Simply because one has chosen the oldest and not the least honorable of trades--that of voyaging--as one's life work is no indication that one is necessarily an intellectual moron. The most unlettered of common sailors can appreciate the beauty of "The Nigger of the Narcissus" far more than the most erudite of landlubbers, for he has lived the life that Conrad so masterfully described. And so--let the Conrad Memorial Library be duly honored; its function will, by the natural course of events, be fulfilled...
...NARCISSUS, AN ANATOMY OF CLOTHES-Gerald Heard-Dutton ($1). Evolution raised man from the red earth naked. He looked at himself and knew shame; he felt the wind, was cold. Therefore he stole from the beasts their striped or tawny elegance, he scooped the rock and lived within it. Clothing and architecture developed together like concentric cortices of a springing rod. Architecture is the outer whorl; its fashions make their impress on clothes, the inner. Tailors snip and snip, masons slap on their lime; steeples and toppers affront the sky, eaves overhang, tails droop decorously down. Ingeniously...
Almayer's Folly, 1895; An Outcast of the Islands, 1896; The Nigger of the Narcissus, 1897; Tales of Unrest, 1898; Lord Jim, 1900; Youth and Other Tales, 1902; Typhoon, 1903; Nostromo, 1904; The Mirror of the Sea, 1906; A Set of Six, 1908; Under Western Eyes, 1911; Chance, 1914; Victory, 1915; Within the Tides, 1915; The Arrow of Gold, 1919; The Rescue, 1920; Notes on Life and Letters, 1921; The Rover...