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...five years British and Scottish stonemasons chipped and hammered in the Asheville woods while Mr. Vanderbilt toured Europe, sending back carload after carload of French furniture, Gothic cabinets, Jacobean tables, Japanese ivories. On Christmas day, 1895, Vanderbilts assembled to walk through the magnificent gardens laid out by Frederick Law Olmstead, designer of New York's Central Park, to attend the official housewarming of Biltmore House. An assembled chateau, it is designed chiefly after the Chateau de Blois. There was nothing in North America to approach it; no other Vanderbilt had so fine a home...
...collection and by the intrinsic merit and value of the individual items. There are many etchings and engravings, but the chief glory of the collection is the oil portraits, many of them the work of distinguished artists. Particularly notable are the pictures of Lord Newton of the Scottish Bench, by Raeburn, of Lord Chief Baron Macdonald of the English Bench, by Romney--both in the Austin Hall reading room--the large portrait of Dean C. C. Langdell, by Vinton, which hangs in the main reading room of Langdell Hall, and that of Chief Justice Taney by Leutze, in the lecture...
...School and may well be considered an art collection in itself. In it are oil portraits of famous, and infamous, English judges. They are forty-two in number, and the group includes work by Lely, Kneller, Romney, and Raeburn. Here is the painting of Lord Newton, a Scottish judge, by Raeburn, which is believed to be the artist's original of his larger portrait of Lord Newton made for the Faculty of Advocates of Edinburgh. The portrait of Lord Newton and the one of Lord Chief Baron Macdonald, an English judge, by Romney, may well be considered the treasures...
Conferred. Upon General John Joseph Pershing, U. S. A., retired; the 33rd Degree-of Masonry;† at the house of the Temple (Scottish Rite), in Washington...
...excessively ugly, good-humored and unambitious Peregrine ("Pithecanthropus") Smith, on a fortnight's pedestrian holiday from his police duties, meets up with an aggressive young Scottish engineer. They set out to cross Dukesmoor together in a thick fog. From the window of the moorland house a face watches them menacingly. Through the fog comes faintly the tolling of a bell-a convict has escaped! At Oakmere Pool lies the dead body of a man, stripped to his underclothes. . . . Thus this thriller, in the somewhat old-fashioned English manner: plenty of atmosphere and a well-defined trail, with...