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...spring night in 1889, a young man named Bernard Shaw sat in an Amsterdam theater watching the first performance of an opera by a Dutch composer named Simon van Milligen. In his report to the London Star, perspicacious young "Corno di Bassetto" (Shaw's pen name) was kind to the opera, but hooted at the company director's curtain speech about the triumphant establishment of a great national school of opera...
...practiced for weeks, preparing fair copies of Wordsworth's sonnet, Upon Westminster Bridge. The Etonians leaned heavily to 16th Century chancery-a tight, slanting, angular style brought by Vatican scribes to Elizabethan England, which avoids loops, keeps "t's" and "p's" short, uses a broad pen for contrasting thick and thin strokes...
American history (and legend) had begun. Few Americans, of course, had the wit to recognize it in the making. Yet here & there a quick eye, a sharp ear and a busy pen took note of the rich, small doings of 17th Century American life. These early histories, diaries, memoirs and letters, vivid scribbles on the cuff of history, have mostly been suppressed into the dreary, quoteless grey of the professional historian's page. America Begins gives a glimpse of the real wonderland behind that dingy looking glass...
Letters to Posterity. In the sense of producing stories or poetry, Jane Carlyle was no "writing woman." But to posterity she bequeathed a host of letters in which her life and times are portrayed as brilliantly as if her pen had been dipped (as her proud husband put it) in "grains as of gold." She achieved this perfection of correspondence while suffering from periodic bouts of sleeplessness, racking headaches, and the cares of looking after dour, excessively difficult Thomas-a combination of circumstances that at one period brought her to the very verge of lunacy...
...Large Elderly Men." This new selection of Jane's letters not only sketches such tender, mocking pen portraits of husband Carlyle. Through Jane's matchless eyes, latter-day readers can also watch such scenes as Dickens marvelously playing the role of conjurer at a children's party, or Tennyson taking Jane's hand and "forgetting to let it go again," while murmuring in the trancelike voice of a lotus-eater: "I know that I know you, but I cannot tell your name...