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...books shown are French. Among the most interesting may be mentioned "Entree ... Henri II ... en la ville ... de Paris", Paris, 1549, containing a fine equestrian portrait by Jean Goujon; Aesop, "Les Fables", Paris, 1542, a unique first edition; Homer, Les Dix Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose, Lyons, 1557 with woodcuts by "Le Petit Bernard"; and Geoffrey Tory's Aediloquium, Paris, 1530, illustrated by the author. Holbein's Old Testament and Dance of Death, although the work of a German artist, were printed on French soil. Of the Dance of Death there are on exhibition...
Among the books shown are Durer's "Small Passion" and "Apocalypse," Rolbein's "Dance of Death" and Old Testament, and Luther's Bible, illustrated with woodcuts by Hans Sebald Beham, and the "Metamorphoses" of Ovid...
...exhibition of the original drawings, the copper plates, and the etchings of Pablo Picasso for an edition of Ovid's Metamorphses will open today in the Contemporary Art Society's galleries in the Harvard Cooperative Society Building. The exhibition, which will continue through January 27, will consist of about thirty different works of the modern Spanish artist, which were recently shown at the Marie Harriman Galleries in New York...
...Pierre Laval was born in the barren, backward region of Auvergne in the little village of Châteldon. His father was a grocer. Young Pierre used to drive a butcher's cart. It is the Laval legend that the village priest discovered him one day delivering salami and reading Ovid. He helped him with his studies. Pierre Laval became a schoolmaster, then a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in Paris and in due time became Mayor of Aubervilliers. In May 1914 he became a Deputy and was listed almost immediately as a violent Socialist. When War broke...
...English; C. R. Post, for aid in gathering further material for the fourth volume of "History of Spanish Painting"; E. K. Rand, for assistance on Volume H of "A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours", on a book on Virgil's influence on later literature, on an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, on a volume to succeed "Founders of the Middle Ages", and on an edition of the Opuscula Sacra of Boethius...