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...them, and spent his last two francs to buy them a drink of rum. Readers of From Rousseau to Proust can determine how stimulating these international contacts were from the occasional reminiscences that figure in other essays in the book. Although it is in general an attempt to trace the tradition that Rousseau started through French literature, it is primarily of value for its incidental insights, since the essays, written at different periods, tend to become repetitious, and since Ellis' underlying argument is not convincingly proved. Ellis considers Rousseau one of the most influential men in history. He carefully...
...morning last week Herbert Hoover, returning to California after a tour of the East, arrived in Chicago. Knowing the best place to find him, newshawks marched into the office of Capitalist Arch Wilkinson Shaw, great & good Hoover friend. No trace of Mr. Hoover was to be seen but much in evidence was Mr. Hoover's traveling companion, Ben S. Allen, onetime Associated Pressman and Wartime assistant to Hoover in Belgium. Ben Allen, whose most notable job was press-agenting the Hoover Food Administration, passed out a typewritten Hoover statement...
However, it was the landscape etchings that have since proved the most sought after. Taking "The Three Trees," done in 1643, as an example, it will be interesting to trace the value attached to it as the years went by, as well as the different nations whose exchange was used. It sold for eight pounds, eight shillings in 1798; four pounds, four shillings in 1834; 120 florins in 1847; 170 pounds in 1893; 12,600 francs in 1909; 6100 marks in 1909; and 1155 pounds...
Unlike any previous Hasty Pudding show, the action will not be laid at Harvard. Feeling that "variety is the spice of life," McKennan and his committee decided to trace instead the vagaries of some Sons of the Founder after they had gone forth in the world...
...Watteau's Jupiter and Antiopc, from the Louvre. ¶ Mme Vigee Lebrun's portrait of Marie Antoinette, lent by Edward J. Berwind. Every number in the list shone with that French gaiety which 20th Century Parisians have lost. Not even in the court portraits was there a trace of the stolid respectability of a Gainsborough or a Reynolds. In not one of the French masters was there a trace of the social responsibility of a Hogarth...