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...Last spring, when the son of a well-known automobile manufacturer was sentenced to five days in jail for fast driving, the country rang with excitement. Orange County, California, sprang into prominence by giving "a day on the rock pile" to all second offenders. Even the famous Ralph De Palma got "ten days", for shooting away from a policemen whose motorcycle was "doing...
...artist visiting the English cathedrals. Those who saw last autumn's exhibition at the Fogg Museum and remember the fine accuracy and firm precision of Mr. Conant's rendering of Spanish buildings will be charmed with his version of Lincoln, Durham and Wells as ever they were with Palma or Availa. And that is saying a great deal for not only were Mr. Conant's Spanish drawings almost poignantly beautiful, but the architecture of those sun-flooded towns south of the Pyrenees if of itself more stimulating, more exciting than any that can ever be found in England--a land...
...loan exhibition of paintings has been lately increased. Mr. Edwin S. Webster lends "Madonna and Child," by Francesco Francis, and also a portrait of a young woman by Palma Giovanne, a late master of the Venetian School...
Immediately Fine Arts suggested itself as the most high-toned thing on which to begin. So I commenced looking around for some favorable investment in this line. Firmly convinced of the truth of the proverb, "Palma non sine argento per vias rectas," my small board fairly burned in my pocket, while I was searching for some good introduction to this unknown land...