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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...text itself, chapter after chapter which gives early promise of being interesting and fruitful degenerates either into a mass of facts or goes off on a tangent of generalization which renders the information useless for practical purposes. When, however, Professor wise divorces himself from his charts and diagrams, he writes in a simple concise style. So in the last chapter of his book, dealing not with amateur dramatics but with the subject of the "Dramatic Value in Teaching" he illustrates the value of the psychology of the drama in teaching in a small rural school. He shows that making...
...masterpiece, but one of recondite perplexities. It moves only persons of considerable musical culture, folk whose morals (generally speaking) are not in need of any spoiling. The lyrics of the play, in French, are understood by few, and are in addition not half so lascivious or persuasive as the text of the average A. H. Woods farce. The operatic pantomime, when well done, evokes a scholarly mood and more estheticism than erotic thrills. The scene of the head is moderately horrible after the fashion of the traditional Grand Guignol, but is certainly not of a sort to lead bashful youth...
Well-it's fine to meet a romantic novelist again, after all these able young gentlemen whose text-book is What Every Young Man Ought to Know. I fancy such things do not greatly worry Mr. Farnol. He takes the facts of life for granted and proceeds from that basis to write of the things which lead away from life. Only think what a book Carl Van Vechten or Floyd Dell might have written if either one of them had been, like Jeffery Farnol, a stagehand and a scene painter on Broadway for two years-or perhaps it would...
...between the Vatican and Sinaitic codices (earliest Greek Biblical manuscripts). It was wrapped in linen rags in an earthen pot, much of it in perfect condition, and is now on exhibition at University College, London. It dates from the Fourth Century and differs in several ways from the orthodox text. An iron dagger, considered the oldest iron implement known (about 4,000 B. C.) and three human skulls, provisionally dated 50,000 B. C. by Professor Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie, great Egyptologist, were among the objects found...
...relation to Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton. He is widely known for his lucid historical and critical writings on art, which include a first-class text on the History of Painting (1894), Art for Art's Sake, The Meaning of Pictures, What Is Art? and monographs on various schools. He is now working on a similar study of Rubens, of whom it is well known that many paintings signed by him were executed by his pupils from sketches by the master...