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Cheshire House puts out Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with etchings by Bernhardt Wall ($18); Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher ($15) with a frightening frontispiece, other wood-engravings by Abner Epstein...
...Beekman Poe '32 won from Breckinridge, last year's Crimson captain, 15-11, 15-4, 15-13; H. W. Cole '32 won out in a close match with Janney, 15-9, 14-17, 15-13, 15-14; and F. O. Canfield '32 easily defeated Foulke...
...giving his recollections of Gray and Woodberry, Mr. Hervey said that the four years in which he worked with the latter on "The Life of Poe", were the happiest he had lived, and he paid tribute of those contemporaries of Amy Lowell. He also lauded the critical work of J. L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature...
...Poe, of course, who was responsible for all this, who walked in "the ghoul-haunted woodlands of Weir" and though of "what man never dared to think before." Now the Vagabond himself is something of an authority on gaunt and ghastly ghouls and fifty-six other varieties of spooks, but he is anxious to hear Professor Matthiessen's lecture on Poe today at 10 o'clock in Harvard...
...supposedly to win a bet from her husband and Lord Byron. It is a grisly conceit about a young doctor who, experimenting with synthetic animation, produces a live, dangerous and somewhat human monster. Universal, encouraged by the success of Dracula to produce a series of horrific weirds, in which Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue will be next, entrusted the direction of Frankenstein to James Whale. He did it in the Grand Guignol manner, with as many queer sounds, dark corners, false faces and cellar stairs as could possibly be inserted...