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...reading will be held in the Main Dining Room of the Union. The subject of Professor Copeland's reading will be "Old Favorites and New," and will contain selections from the works of such writers as Thackeray, Kipling, Robert Benchley '12, and Donald Ogden Stewart, the author of "Perfect Behavior...
...Attended by the young ladies of Thackeray's Vanity Fair...
...machine. In its reduced shape, it was a 13-page pamphlet, 3½ inches wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement-readers who seek culture for ten minutes a day can carry whole libraries in their waistcoat pockets...
...Language courses both on the boat and ashore will be conversational, and the study of literature will be divorced from chonology and allied to geography, so that students will read Loti in Japan Conrad in Java, Kipling in India, the Greek and Roman classics in the Mediterranean Fielding and Thackeray in London."Hamlet" in Denmark...
...state that the purchasers of the books were, like the late Lord Leverhulme, merely on the lookout for pictures with which to nourish their childish minds and that they cared little for literature, basing your assertion on the sale of a Thackeray first edition for $6. Has it occurred to you that the Thackeray might be worth only $6 ? And certainly you can have no objection to printing correctly the names of Messrs. Thomas Rowlandson and Henry Alken, two of the greatest caricaturists of all times...