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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of the Barbizon school may be studied in scenes of peasant life by Charles Jacque and Millet, and landscapes by Daubigny, Corot, and Rousseau. Etchings of Paris by Lalanne and Lepere are shown, Lithographs by Gavarni, Chariet, Raffet, Daumier, and Manet; landscape etchings by Pissarro, and a very rare lithograph of four figures by Ingres...
...reply to this query would run somewhat in this fashion: "My son, the Widener Library has one of the largest collections of books in the world. It has rare, historical books of great interest. It has documents and pamphlets, old tomes and handsome bindings, books in - Aramaic and Chinese, books of science, archaeology, and philology. It has choice books, and it has common books. Can you not find the book you want? You must indeed be particular...
...Gambet cites the placard announcing the first meeting of the course. If Mr. Gambet or anyone else can construe that simple warning as an instance of the uncompromising attitude of the German Department, he must be of an exceedingly sensitive and, fortunately for the peace of the world, rare type...
...great English journalist, Frederic Harrison, was congratulated on his 90th birthday last year as "living among the third generation of his contemporaries." Men often live to be well over ninety; but it is a very rare thing to find a man so active, so vigorous, and so young-minded that it can be truly said of him that the generation of today are his contemporaries...
Several of the books are bound copies of the American Chess Bulletin which Mr. Wainwright won in problem tourneys. One of the books is a very rare edition of a treatise by Jacopo da Cessole and was printed in 1532. This is the work which Caxton translated and printed as "The Game and Playe of the Chesse"--the second book printed in England. There is also a learned work in Latin and Hebrew by Thomas Hyde, professor of Oriental languages at Oxford at the close of the seventeenth century. The Widener copy of this "Shahiludium" is of the extremely rare...