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Readers who liked John Collier's His Monkey Wife, David Garnett's Lady into Fox, or Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue might each find something to his liking in Authoress Trevelyan's Appius & Virginia. Those who have watched babies in the nursery or monkeys in the zoo with mixed but fascinated feelings may also find it reminiscent...
...produced jazz music but it has little critical discrimination, no authoritative history of jazz. It has remained for Europe, which first understood the poetry of Poe and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, to produce an extensive and scholarly appreciation of U. S. jazz. In a book called Aux Frontieres du Jazz, now current in Paris, Robert Coffin, Belgian musical essayist, explains fastidiously what every good jazz musician knows but few would be able to express: that the true heroes of jazz are not the well-advertised Whitemans, Lombardos and Vallees, but an inner circle of such amazing virtuosi...
...Poe," Professor Murdock, Harvard...
...POE (Edgar Allan) Bibliographical Check-List of the First Editions of. In Two Parts. One of 240 Copies...
...favorite is 836, which squared gives 698,896, a palindrome (reads both ways). He likes 347 because it is a prime number, the year of Plato's death, and the telephone number of the rector of the University of Vilna [Dr. Aleksander Janusykiewicz]. He remembers that Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849 because 1849 is the square...