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Died. Burton Egbert Stevenson, 89, sprightly anthologist and founder of the American Library in Paris, a onetime printer's devil who left nothing to chance in his meticulously compiled Home Books of quotations, verse, proverbs and maxims -a lifelong opus of more than 30,000 pages-marked by artful...
It was, then, only natural that when Twain in the summer of 1876 got the idea for a story in the manner of an Elizabethan Pepys, in which the conversation of Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont and a covey of ladies including the Queen was to be recorded...
Greeted as "Lady Paulina Peeps" by a London magistrate trying her on a traffic charge, Lady Paulina Mary Louise Pepys, second daughter of the sixth Earl of Cottenham and a descendant of 17th century Diarist Samuel Pepys, shook lovers of English literature the world over with her reply. "Sorry," she...
Particularly so, fortunately, is Robert McEntire, the Tycoon. Mr. McEntire struts roguishly and confidently, smoothing his hands over his assumed paunch and twinkling devilishly at everybody as he enjoins them didactically to "Read Pepys' diary," "Read Marcus Aurelius," "Read Walt Whitman." So, too, the ever-capable Paul Barstow, now the...
The author slipped on one quotation ["men must endure their going forth" should read "going hence"] and misattributed the Restoration opinion of Elizabethan plays; it was John Evelyn [rather than Samuel Pepys] who made the notation in his diary after seeing a performance of Hamlet. But these are venial sins...