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...England. He doesn't even die, after the reader is expecting it impatiently, so that the nice English family in the story can solve their financial difficulties with his money. And the head of the nice family, after refusing to be Uncle Bliss' English agent (for he is Anglo-Saxon and independent) comes home from France with the family and becomes Uncle Bliss' agent without a quiver. The book doesn't prove a thing: first impressions to the contrary, it doesn't even try to. Perhaps that is why it makes passable, sometimes delightful reading...
...pursuing the even tenor of his lecture when a student raised his hand for a question and inadvertently he recognized him. The student asked his question and the professor turned to his notes. "It doesn't say," he admitted. More guarded was the Anglo-Saxon instructor who lost his copy of Caedmon and dismissed the class for a week...
...stuff of romance is in this book;--hard riding Celts sweeping down upon Saxon shield walls; Drusus, prefect of the Damnonian March, leading forth the remnants of Roman civilization in Britain to quell the barbarian invaders; love, conspiracy, and battle in Lyonesse in the tumultuous days which followed the death of King Arthur...
...aesthetic issue: the contention is raised that the club should confine itself to music that allows it to roar like a lion at supper-time. There is an etymological issue which drags in the somewhat recondite but undoubtedly interesting fact that the word "glee" is derived from the Anglo-Saxon "gligg", meaning music...
...monuments illustrating the transition from the Romanesque period to the Gothic have been given to the Germanic Museum by German American friends of the museum in New York and other cities. These statues worthily complete the museum's exhibition of thirteenth century Saxon sculpture...