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Readers of the diary of Samuel Pepys know the intimate scenes that pop out so unexpectedly among the humdrum entries on office work and financial difficulties- such passages as Pepys's account of his shamefaced spying on his wife Elizabeth when he thought she was too friendly with her...
"At the meeting at Gresham College tonight . . . there was a pretty experiment of the blood of one dog let out . . . into the body of another on one side, while all his own run out on the other side. The first died upon the place, and the other very well, and...
Not yet, however, were the doctors willing even to suggest any use (such as temporary relief of uremia) to which the method might eventually be put. But Mr. Pepys, willing like most laymen to rush in where scientists fear to tread, ventured 272 years ago to draw a conclusion from...
The Author-In Palestine during the World War, Vaughan Wilkins, son of a slum parson, lived in a dugout reputed to have been shared by Samson & Delilah. And So-Victoria, his first novel, was written in his father-in-law's historic house in Wales, in a London house...
¶ Students from Berea College, Kentucky, danced odd "running sets," sang a version of the ballad Barbara Allen which Samuel Pepys knew. Tall, good-looking Reuben Taylor, an Oxford graduate who prefers to stay in the mountains and raise blackberries, sang ballads with Kentucky's Homeplace Mountain Center Group...