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...Nineteenth annual convention of the Investment Bankers' Association of America; at New Orleans...
Anyone may guess what happens when the acid of Mr. Babbitt's mind meets the syrup of romanticism. In the history of the romantic movement in the nineteenth century there is plenty of the emotional overtone which grates so harshly on Mr. Babbitt's ear. He goes after it with all his guns. His methods are simple. Beginning with Jean Jacques Rousseau, his arch-enemy, who he appears to believe is responsible for everything that has happened in the last century except the breaking of the halyard on Shamrock V, he makes all the romanticists ridiculous. This is very easy...
15?Opening of nineteenth session of the International Statistical Institute; at Tokyo, Japan...
MEYER, Swiss master-writer of the late nineteenth century, combined delicacy of art with a decisive, compact handling of his historical subjects that is all too often lacking in German authors, especially when they find the whole vista of a past civilization spread before them. Meyer is rarely discursive; he possesses startling dramatic sense, a passionate feelings for the great individual; these a translation can reproduce, but the perfection of style that marks the original it was not in the power of Professor Hauch to give again in his translation. It is to his credit that he has captured...
Honoring Professor Chauncy Brewster Tinker of Yale, Fogg Museum yesterday opened its major exhibition of the year to visitors. The display, which includes representative work of eighteenth and early nineteenth century English artists assembles some of the most famous examples of the school which began with Hogarth and includes Reynolds. Gainsborough. Romney, Raeburn. Turner Constable and Lawrence...