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...Confucius, as the most representative books of two great civilizations, he throws in with the remark that "they were the creative and cohesive powers in the world second only to the Bible". Plato's "Republic" gets a place because Wells found it easy to read on the Downs of Sussex, and because he claims that it gives a sense "of liberation and enlargement". Bacon's "New Atlantis" he does not call a great book; in fact, with typical obstinacy, he calls it "not a very well-imagined nor a well-written book" and then includes it among the most important...
...that "they don't give you your money's worth these days", at last may find balm in Gilead. A penny weekly is published in England with the title alone of THE FARHAM. HASLEMERE AND HINDHEAD HERALD, ALTON MAIL, BORDON AND LONGMOOR JOURNAL, LIPHOOK AND LISS NEWS AND NORTH SUSSEX ADVERTISER...
...Lyons lives in Sussex, and he knows the country, the towns and the people inside out and upside down. And when one finishes his stories one feels that one has looked at Sussex towns and people too, from these intimate, if unconventional vantage points. One feels very "knowing", and not a little thrilled at the experience. Mr. Lyons is a "collector of favor able British types", using favorable in the sense of correct and current. The new landed aristocracy, gross as beer barrels and uncouth as hedge hogs, comes in for a bit of trenchant panning. And the Horatio Bottomleys...
...their guests. The program for the evening is as follows: Now Let Every Tongue, Bach Adoramus Te, Palestrina Morning Hymn. Krug On the Water, Mendelssohn Harvard Glee Club. Melodie, Gluck-Kreisler Berseuse, Faure Minuet, Sulley Violin Solo. In Picardie, Osgood Serenade, Bowdine Bedouin Love Song, Foote Glee Club. The Sussex Mummer's Christmas Carol, Arr. Grainger Cherry Ripe, Cyril Scott Fair Maid, Victor Herbert Violin Solo. My Bonnie Lass, Morley Suabian Folk Song, Brahms Give a Rouse, Bantok Glee Club...
George Herbert Crocker, Jr., '17, of Fitchburg, who was injured when the British steam packet "Sussex" was torpedoed in the Channel in March, has arrived safely at his home. He is still lame from his knee injury, but otherwise he has fully recovered...