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Most royal favorites have been the object of romantic interest rather than of affection. A pleasing exception is little Nell Gwynn, capricious blossom of the London gutters, mistress of light-headed Charles II. England has always loved the orange girl and actress of old Drury. She was said herself to have had a warm and kindly heart. Almost the last words of her cynical royal protector were said to have been: "Let not poor Nelly starve...
...scholarly and tasteful work on Nell Gwynn, by Lewis Melville, has just been published by the George H. Doran Co.* Her story is entertainingly told and charmingly illustrated. Almost simultaneously, there is announced the sale of a picture of Nell, an authenticated painting from the brush of Sir Peter Lely, chief court painter to Charles II. It was sold by Grosvenor Clarkson to Mary Coleman, Inc., and shows little Nell, as Venus, reposing naked on colored silk draperies, a cupid by her side. Her eyes and hair are brown, her lips ripely red, her flesh tones soft and warm...
...good deal of Nell Gwynn's posthumous reputation is due to her identification with the Protestant cause and the political drift which later crystallized into the Whig Party...
Both the individual and the meet honors went to the University yesterday afternoon when the University cross-country team snowed M. I. T. under, 20-37, just after the Freshman harriers had defeated the Tech first-year men, 24-38. Cutcheon and O'Nell took first in the University and Freshman events respectively...
...Nell had no difficulty in reaching the finish before Chute of Tech in the Freshman race. The Crimson Freshman finished five seconds ahead of Chute without extending himself to the limit...