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...potential, but Alice Van Buren's "Twelve O'clock" (another first chapter) does more. It begins the memoirs of a self-pitying, broken-down, and impotent young Bohemian painter who's retreated so far from the world that he has absolutely no one to talk to-an unlikeable schlemihl, except for his occasional self-denigrating humor. The problem Van Buren gives him is a variation on a dusty science fiction device-he finds he can stop time at will for everyone in the world but himself. As far as the chapter goes, the time-fix is more a pivot...
GERMAN TRANSLATIONS.- Translations of Peter Schlemihl, Der Schimmel, Zerbrochene Krug, now ready at SEVER'S. Also translations from the French of Madame Therese and Tulip Noire...
62German I. Seminar to-night, (Friday, Feb. 4.) on "Peter Schlemihl" at 7.30 o'clock. Also ready a summary of "Die Bettlerin vom Pont des Arts" in German and English, in parallel columns. E. C. Pfeiffer, 10 Stoughton...
Seminars - Pol. Econ. I. The whole course Monday Jan. 31, 6.30 p.m. German I. translation of Peter Schlemihl and of the prose composition Friday, Feb. 4th. 6.30 p.m. Gentlemen intending to be present will please notify me. J, W. Mack, 717 Cambridge...
German I. On Friday evening, at 7.30 o'clock, will translate Peter Schlemihl. Also ready a summary of Die Bettlerin vom Pont des Arts, in German and English, in parallel columns. E. C. Pfeiffer, 10 Stoughton...