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When Penguin first started the project six years ago, it picked as its editor Nikolaus Pevsner, Slade professor of fine art at Cambridge, and gave him a budget of $700,000 to get the job done. He laid out an ambitious program, including seven volumes for ancient art, four more for the Far East, seven for Britain, six for Italy, and six for the Americas, Spain, Germany and Holland. To write them, he picked such experts as Charles Seymour Jr. from Yale, Paul Frankl from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and John Pope-Hennessy from Britain...
...Pamphleteer-Editor T. S. Arthur, Ten Nights made almost as big a sensation as Uncle Tom's Cabin, quickly became the bible of temperance lecturers, was made into a play, set a whole nation singing "Father, dear father, come home with me now!" The lurid lessons of Simon Slade's saloon, the Sickle & Sheaf, eventually produced more laughter than fears, more vaudeville jokes than pious homilies. But their spirit lived on, to bring national prohibition...
...THEO. SLADE Chattanooga, Tenn...
...addition to the Slade Professorship of Art at Oxford, Gombrich is also a lecturer at the Warburg Institute of the University of London...
...fearing to be murdered by one of the king's henchmen, Slade has small thanks for his services to democracy. "Nada, Senor," says a philosophical waiter. "There is no importance." The waiter sums up the book well enough; even when turned upside down, given a dash of Psychopathia Sexualis and a medium-sad ending, these refugees from Graustark are still from Graustark...