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Last week Andre Maurois, cosmopolite, suave veteran of literary teas, facile biographer (Ariel, la vie de Shelley) returned to Paris from a round-the-world tour on behalf of the Alliance Française, international society to promote French culture. At the 21st birthday dinner of the Alliance Française Biographer Maurois who prides himself on his fluent, accentless English reported to his employers on the spread of the French language abroad. "I rejoice," said he, "that England is a country where real progress is being made in the study of correct, modern French. In Canada they speak French...
Publication of a facsimile copy of the Harvard Shelley Notebook, one of the treasures of the College Library, is announced by the John Barnard Associates, a club of University book-lovers. The facsimiles of the pages have been prepared in Germany, and are at present in the hands of the club, preparatory to their being issued in book form...
...Shelley Notebook, which is in the Treasure Room of the College Library, has long been a valuable accession for students of the University, but it has been impossible to make as much use of the volume as was desirable, because of its immense value. The publication of the facsimile edition will make the treasured notebook available for more general use, consequently increasing its practical value as a reference. It is a small volume, filled with verse written in the hand of the author...
...John Barnard edition will include a proscript by George Edward Woodberry '77, who holds a distinguished position in the contemporary literary world. Professor Woodberry first saw the Notebook during his Senior year at Harvard, when the atmosphere of the College was not very favorable to Shelley, and in his introductory paragraphs he writes of the thrill he received when he was permitted to handle the priceless poetical relic...
Most of us belong on the main road. The scholars, the artists, the artisans, and the adventurers do not. They are a small minority, but they are a very important minority. I appeal for them because it is more important to our civilization that one potential artist like Shelley, one scholar like Gibbon, one artisan like Edison, one adventurer like Lindbergh, be kept out of college than that a thousand more incipient junior executives, Ph.D. candidates, and museum curators...