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...paper shortage, had the civilized perspicacity to print-was E. M. Butler's Rainer Maria Rilke ($4.50), the first full-length study of a great German poet. Others were Peter Quennell's arch Byron in Italy ($3.50) and Arthur Hobson Quinn's heavy, thorough Edgar Allan Poe ($5). Garrett Mattingly's Catherine of Aragon ($3.50) and Kenneth Allott's smart Jules Verne...
...took Princeton's Tiger soccer team six quarters to down an invading Crimson Varsity 2-1 last Saturday on a sloppy, water-logged Poe Field. Not until after the half could the home team get started but then it slowly raised enough steam to conquer the Harvard booters...
...long, and weighs three and three-quarters pounds. It covers American literature from "Mourt's Relation" (1662) to "For Whom the Bell Tolls," from the "American Magazine" (1741) to PM. Walt Whitman gets more space than anyone else (two full pages), closely followed by Henry James, Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe. Nicholas Murray Butler, who usually gets more space in "Who's Who" than any other man, gets only 17 lines here. And the height of degradation for Mr. Butler is that he is followed by "Butler, Rhett, character in 'Gone With the Wind...
...born in 1840 just after his parents landed in Bordeaux. A sickly child in a fairly well-to-do family, he was allowed to dawdle unsuccessfully at his early school studies, got his real education from an eccentric botanist who whetted his appetite for writers like Flaubert, Baudelaire, Poe. In Paris he took up architecture, then sculpture, failed at both. A moody young man, he was drafted in the Franco-Prussian War, complained that while his exuberant companions in arms sang and laughed, he himself just got very tired...
Suffering and loneliness were Hawthorne's whole school. He had no more patience with Transcendentalism than with Phrenology (which Poe and Whitman swallowed whole), even less with Transcendental optimism for America. Like most of the sensitive men of his time, he saw "significance" in common things...