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...oldest artists' clubs in the U. S. (founded 1860) is the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Since Etcher Joseph Pennell warmed his coattails in its snug, chimney-potted, red-brick clubhouse on narrow Camac Street, drinking tea by the quart and muttering against the Philistinism of his native city, the Sketch Club has seen chilly days. Few years ago its treasurer absconded, leaving it with 16? in the bank. Still intact, however, are the club's fine library, its tankard-lined rathskeller, its walls tiled with paintings and prints. Still going strong is the club's annual Christmas party...
...loyal Sketch Clubber for 50 years was red-faced, sedate Portraitist Louis Hasselbusch. He never missed a Christmas party; when he died in 1938 he left the club $500 towards the party's upkeep, plus his "pictures, sketches and studio effects." Last week this apparently inconsiderable be quest turned out to be a windfall. In his studio's litter was a small oil painting on a wooden panel, signed H. D., and titled (by Hasselbusch) Conjugal Parisiene (sic). Joyful experts identified it as one of famed Lithographer Honore Daumier's rare paintings. The Sketch Club banked...
...before the 26-year-old artillery officer, shabby, suffering from itch and malaria-appreciated only by a few of his colleagues-made his name by smashing a royalist coup in Paris on Oct. 4, 1795. Until now this fragmentary (13-page) romance was known only to bibliophiles through a sketch published by a Polish scholar...
...another feature of the book, Harold J. Laski, author and professor of Economics at London University, wrote a biographical sketch also lauding the prominent judge...
...Scientific Monthly for December, gave Darwin credit for these experiments, because, in trying to bolster up his theory of man's lowly origin, Darwin gave a tremendous push to the infant science of infant behavior. Still a source book for child psychologists is Darwin's A Biographic Sketch of an Infant, published...