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...LORD OF LABRAZ-Pio Baroja -Knopf ($2.50). The Spanish hail Señor Baroja as their most popular living talespinner. He writes a little like Dickens, a little like Stevenson, always like a Spaniard-that is, with bold light, harsh shading. His story here is quite simple-a blind nobleman in a priest-ridden hill town quixotically shoulders his brother's misdeeds, earning only calumny and spite from the populace, renouncing society and going to wander, Lear-like, over the bleak table-lands with a wronged barmaid for his Cordelia, a Basque beggar for Poor Tom. It is fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

Professor Antonio G. Solalinde, of the Centro de Estudios Historieos in Madrid will give a lecture in Spanish this evening on "Pio Baroja, Novelista" in Emerson J at 8 o'clock Professor Sola linde is one of the most distinguished Spanish scholars now living

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spanish Professor Lectures Tonight | 2/10/1925 | See Source »

...Tuesday, February 10, at 8 o'clock, Professor Antonio G. Solalinde of Madrid will give a lecture in Emerson J on the Spanish novelist, Pio Baroja. The lecture is under the auspices of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMING LECTURES | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

Professor A. G. Solalinde of Madrid will deliver a lecture in Spanish at 8 o'clock in Emerson Hall on February 10. His subject is "Pio Baroja, Novelista", Professor Salalinde is secretary of the Officina de Relaciones Culturales under the state department of Spain and is associated with the Centro de Estudios Historicos of Madrid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madrid Professor Will Speak | 1/23/1925 | See Source »

...were two elderly sisters of the dead, absorbed in reciting the Ave Maria, as they tremblingly counted their beads. All that long day, figures shuffled in and shuffled out of the crypt, crossing themselves repeatedly. It was the tenth anniversary of the death of His Holiness, Pope Piux X-Pio il buono, the Romans call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Notes, Sep. 1, 1924 | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

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