Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection are Miss Lowell's notebooks, manuscripts, rare examples of her early work, and her vast correspondence with literary figures in America and England, including Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, Richard Aldington, Vachel Lindsay, Barrett Wendell, Harriet Monroe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Eleanora Duse, John Drinkwater, Conrad Alken, and Ezra Pound...
...display also contains rare book items from Miss Lowell's valuable library of first editions, bequeathed to Harvard at the time of her death in 1925. One of these is a little book "Dream Drops" containing several stories written by Miss Lowell at the age of thirteen, and published anonymously by a Boston firm...
...exhibit of rare editions and the most important works of Alexander Pushkin, great Russian poet, has been arranged by the College Library in connection with the international commemoration during the next two weeks of the hundredth anniversary of this author's death...
Pushkin's verse novel "Evgeni Onegin," basis of an opera by Tchaikowsky, is shown in its rare original form a series of tiny volumes, published during 1825-32 in parts. The first complete edition of "Onegin," published within paper covers in 1833, is also exhibited...
...Help Yourself" there are excellent characterizations, particularly by Frank Thomas (an old hand) and John Taylor: they are types, but convincing types. But in addition the whole performance possesses a unity and an activity rare in these productions; the scherzo established by the entrance of Stringer is maintained unto the final curtain. The part of Stringer is kept on the jump by Ramon Greenleaf, but gains nothing beyond its writing in his performance. An admirable sketch is supplied by Arthur Barry in the part of Bittlesby, who switches from effeminate efficiency to an entertaining attitude of merrily...