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...English ballads. "The Pack of Autolycus" is the first of these, and the second has the alluring title "The Paradise of Dainty Devices". Rollins is a regular contributor to the University Press. Last year at this time appeared his "A Geergeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions", a volume of late sixteenth century songs, a reprint of a delightful anthology of popular songs of that period...
Ulrich on Hutten was one of those men who formed the bridge between the Humanists and the Reformers of the early sixteenth century. He was a strange sort of a man, a genius with a Faustian passion for knowledge, a poet with a high ideal of a knightly national regeneration, whose golden dreams were yet all strongly fated to turn to dust and ashes. Buffeted about during his short and stormy life, diseased and almost friendless, he possessed at his death only the clothes on his back, a bundle of letters and the pen which had won him a place...
...Atlanta's new home of culture and the arts sits like a gem of truth, bowered in lovely green trees and shrubs, with the gentle rising sweep of lawn in front, on Peachtree street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth. Formerly the High home, it was given to the city, through the art association, by Mrs. Joseph Madison High, to be a perpetual home of art in this southern metropolis and to house the permanent collection which Atlanta will gather together for the inspiration and training of her gifted sons and daughters of the generations yet to come...
...stroke for stroke with Jones. It had been a strange tournament. Most of the scores were posted in the club house, but anyone might still win it-even Jones. Turnesa had the likeliest chance. His 294 led the field. Leo Diegel, until he took a six on the short sixteenth, had seemed a sure winner. Hagen -"Third Round" Hagen-had thundered around, burning up the course, 4, 4, 3, 2, 4, with four bad holes to spoil his chances at the end. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn, he of the huge feet and iron wrist, had undone his hope only...
...Catholic Reformation in the sixteenth century", Professor Lord, Emerson J, History...