Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lady Wyngate's housekeeper Alice Belmore-Cliffe Rand Eldridge, Hobart's younger brother Ben Smith Hobart Eldridge Thurston Hall Lady Violet Wyngate Jane Cowl Hugo Willens John Halliday Sascha Barashaev, pianist and John's flance Marshall Grant Phoebe Eldridge, Hobart's wife Lily Cahill Clendon Wyatt, young American Rhodes scholar Robert Woods Nikolai Jurin, Russian emigre Jose Ruben...
...type is clear and makes reading easy. Such case is further facilitated by the placing of the names of the characters above their speeches. The text has been prepared by the distinguished Elizabethan scholar. Arthur Henry Bullen...
CLEOPATRA'S DAUGHTER ? Beatrice Chanler?Liveright ($3.50). Romantic biography of an almost forgotten figure, by a socialite scholar...
...green. When the invention of motorcar self-starters and the vice-presidency of General Motors made him a millionaire, he gave $577,000 to Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, to find out. Last week he thought he almost knew the answer. Full of premonitions he took the scholar who was doing the investigating for him to Cleveland to address the National Academy of Sciences...
STEFAN SWEIG'S pen is guided by a versatile hand and although it has shown particular ability at thrilling narrative such as "Marie Antoinette" it is more than capable in recording scholarly research and thought. Zweig's biography of Erasmus is not a conventional biography; it is rather a perceptive study of the great thinker as a representative of sixteenth century Humanism, a cold unimpassioned word picture of a mind rather than a man. Erasmus was a thinker not a doer; it was he who laid the foundation upon which Luther based his violent departure from the past...