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...exhibit are five Sargents, including "In the Tyrol", the gift of Sir Joseph Duveen: "A Tomb at Toledo", purchased from the Louise E. Betteus Fund; and "Camping near Lake O'Hara", the gift of the friends of the Fogg Museum. Sargent's oil painting "Lake O'Hara" is also given...
...fund," last week at Tientsin, by enraged surviving relatives of great Yuan Shih-kai (1859-1916). He was the last of the Manchu Viceroys, and became in 1912 the second President of the Chinese Republic. Last week his sons were made irate by reports that Yuan's mighty tomb in Honan, his native province, has recently been looted and denied by the itinerant so-called Christian War Lord, Feng Yu-hsiang, who has now made Honan his base (TIME...
Chinese who cannot but deplore the present political disintegration of their country, wished last week that great Yuan Shih-kai might rise as a towering cohesive force from his open tomb in Honan. So great and national was his prestige that during the last year of his life and of his Presidency (1916) a movement to proclaim him Emperor and seat him on the Dragon Throne failed by the narrowest of margins. When the Chinese Revolution broke, in 1911, Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh, declared with prophetic vision: "Chaos will ensue. . . . For several decades there will...
Master Nicolaus, the sculptor of this announcement, who according to documentary evidence was called in 1467 from Strassburg to Vienna in order to execute. The Emperor's Tomb at St. Stephen's Cathedral, is probably identical with Nicolaus von Leyden, the sculptor of the two remarkable busts of a Prophet and a Sibyl in the former Chancellery at Strassburg, casts of which are in the Germanic Museum...
...Patriarch Monsignor Barlassina (Roman Catholic), who donned a great purple robe and blessed Umberto; 3) good Father Aurelio Marotta "Custodian of the Holy Land and Guardian of the Holy Sepulchre" (Roman Catholic), who led His Royal Highness into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and showed him an empty tomb...