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When Phillipps died in 1872, his grandson went to work selling off the collection of nearly 60,000 manuscripts and 50,000 books. It was not until recently that London rare-book dealers, still sorting through remnants of the Phillipps heap, found the prize of his collection. There, scattered loosely...
THE ART OF THE PUPPET by Bil Baird. 251 pages. Macmillan. $17-50. Puppeteer Bil Baird's book is not a history but an appreciation of the theatrical form whose genesis, lost in time, goes back thousands of years. Punch and Judy were born before Diarist Samuel Pepys, who...
* Other famous men have been martyrs to gall bladders or kidney stones. Among them: Samuel Pepys, the 17th-century English diarist who suffered most of his life from kidney and bladder stones, finally died of them; Napoleon Bonaparte, who was plagued by agonizing gallstone colic from the age of 30...
The play itself, according to Samuel Pepys (via the Program Notes), is "silly." It is. It is also genuinely dirty, and all the dirt is delivered by the actors with intelligent attention and commendable relish. The plot, however, swells to unmanageable length and complication. The Dunster Players gives us the...
Late bloomers get a new crack at academic training. Says Headmaster William Hamblin of London's Samuel Pepys Comprehensive School: "Last year 150 boys-90% of whom had come here as eleven-plus failures-were able to take the ordinary GCE exam. Four boys, also failures, took the advanced...