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...eyes. Are they lamentable creatures? Poor dolts who have no eye for the noble, no ear for the exquisite? Long have they been so considered by those other operagoers whose eyes remain open. Not so are they regarded by Miss Leginska, English pianist-composer-conductor, whose opera written around Thackeray's story The Rose and the Ring is soon to have its premiere. She holds the theory that these 40-winkers close their eyes, not because they are bored, but because they fear to be disenchanted. They are those idealists who are more often perturbed by what they...
Dear Sir, formerly called Vanity Fair, has nothing at all to do with either Thackeray or formal correspondence. It has merely to do with Long Island society and is just another one of those things. Chiefly conspicuous is the amiable score of Jerome Kern. Walter Catlett makes his first appearance after three years in Sally. Genevieve Tobin comes out of straight comedy to sing the lead with more or less success...
...Castle in 1857 when she was commissioned to paint the portrait of the infant Princess Beatrice. The great painters of the mid-Victorian days she knew as young men-Millais, Leighton, Alma-Tadema, and among her intimate acquaintances in the field of literature were those household giants, Dickens and Thackeray. Her grandfather and uncle were R.A.'s and her father was one of the most famed engravers of his time...
...THACKERAY AND His DAUGHTER- Lady Ritchie-Harper ($5.00). Thackeray's granddaughter has edited this new collection of letters and excerpts from the journals of her mother, Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Included are many new letters of Thackeray, some of the most amusing ones written during his lecture tour in America. Among the pages one comes upon Ibsen, Keats, the Brownings, "dear old Mr. Carlyle,," Darwin, Ruskin, Stevenson, "lunching with us at Paris, tossing back his hair...
...interesting collection of Christmas books is now on exhibition in the Widener Memorial Room of the Library. It is an unusually rare and valuable collection of first editions among which are many books by Dickens and Thackeray, illustrated in colors. Two of the books by Dickens are "The Holiday Grammar and "The Yule Log", illustrated by George Cruikshanks...