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According to Professor Isaacs, the failure of the old bases of unity is largely to blame for the present European situation. The Catholic Church was supplanted as a unifying force in the Middle Ages by the birth of international law. This was supplemented in the nineteenth century by the theory of balance of power and by the congress system. "But these influences have been entirely swept away in the twentieth century," he said...
Genuine paintings from the thirteenth through the nineteenth centuries are shown side by side with their respective counterfeits. Examples include pieces by Bellini, Raphael, Constable, Corot, Guardi, Ingres, and Durer. Egyptian, Greek, and Italian Renaissance sculpture, together with Chinese and Aztec figures in stone, complete the main body of the exhibit. Forgetting the line of demarcation which can be drawn between the false art and the true, it can be said that many of the examples shown are products of great craftsmanship and skill. The counterfeit Raphael as well as the Constable indicates that the forger can often be placed...
Probably the common conception of Sibelius as half-man half-fjord is shaped also by the peculiar type of structure of his symphonies. A single movement in any eighteenth or nineteenth-century symphony followed a certain general pattern--the main theme was stated at the outset, in all its length and loveliness, then in succeeding measures was broken down and developed. Sibelius uses an exactly opposite approach. He takes fragments of theme, broken bits of melody, and toys with them for a while. He juggles them from instrument to instrument, combining them in a variety of ways. Gradually they...
...current number should almost certainly prove interesting. Without mentioning each item separately, it might be said that some of the short stories are extremely good, and that neither the article on nineteenth-century architecture by John Wheelwright, nor the professional and faculty book-reviews, has at all the air of being given away free with the issue. It should be possible to read the number for pleasure, and not simply from a sense of duty...
Comparative Literature 12, the Nineteenth Century Novel, will be listed as English 6, although it will be the same course and will still be given by Harry T. Levin, instructor in English...