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...exhibits of unusual interest are Thackeray's copy of Cowper's poenis with autograph notes, and a quaint, rambling letter from Dawrence Sterne in which he solicits the patronage of a great man for a proposed continuation of "Tristram Shandy...
Another London editor is John St. Loe Strachey (not to be confused with Giles Lytton Strachey, author of Queen Victoria, etc.) Mr. Strachey is a son of Sir Edward Strachey. He was graduated from Oxford before entering journalism. He has been editor of The Cornhill Magazine (founded by Thackeray), and at present is editor of The Spectator (London). In politics he is a Conservative. There is no danger of his being ousted from his post; he is proprietor as well as editor of his paper...
Vanity Fair. Mabel Ballin plays " Becky Sharp " with all the vapid fascination of a nurse girl enlisting a park policeman for the evening. Accordingly Goldwyn's eight reel production of Vanity Fair is rather gruesome. One can only hope that Thackeray is sufficiently diverted by his celestial activities to omit a mundane interlude for inspection of the ruin of his novel in the motion picture galleries...
Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will give his annual reading for Freshmen in the Dining Room of the Union at 9 o'clock tonight. Professor Copeland will read selections from the works of Thackeray, Kipling, Leacock, and Donald Ogden Stewart. This reading has previously been held in the autumn...
...interesting collection of Christmas books and cards is now open to the public in the Widener room of the Library. Included are copied of first editions of Christmas stories by Dickens and Thackeray, illustrated in colors. One of Thackeray's books, the "Rose and the Ring", is illustrated by the author. Two of Dickens' books are presentation copies, bearing his signature...