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...Valentin Conrart, secretary to Louis XIII, received each week in his house eight of the literary lights of the period. It was not long before Cardinal Richelieu heard of the meetings and, wishing to control the litterateurs as he controlled everybody else, he offered his protection and promised a royal charter to the society. Most of the habitués of Conrart's garret would have preferred to remain free; but it was dangerous to oppose the Cardinal, so they reluctantly were forced to accept the offer of His Eminence. In 1635, letters patent were granted by the King...
...contemporary Spaniards -whose work cannot be ignored are Ramon and Valentin de Zubiaurre. Fresh color, fine painting, it's all there, with the added attraction of strange foreign scenes-husky Basque fishermen, old ladies spinning, soldiers singing and drinking outside of inns. But he who is not stopped by all this continental glamor will find himself sympathizing with these people and, at the end, wishing to step with them into their pictures and go wandering off to the small multicolored houses in the background...
...McBride ($2.00). The principality of Neuberg is just two blocks to the right from Ruritania and around the corner from Graustark. There Heinrich, the inordinately evil and charming Prince, passed his time between sending people he disliked to the guillotine, making epigrams and breaking women's hearts, while Valentin, who had all of George Washington's attributes except his false teeth, clad in a black domino, plotted revolution in a cellar. And St. Luc, the English Prime Minister, was nobly but quite platonically in love with the Princess, and Mercedes, a dancer, was in love with Valentin...
...Jorge Valentin Manach of Cambridge...
...Harvard College; Mark Falcon Lesses '22, Harvard College; Robert Irving Leven '21, Harvard College; Abram Levy, Jr., '21, Markoe; Harry Levy '21, Burr; Leo Arthur Levy '20, Bowditch; Wheeler Glass Lovell '22, Harvard College; Robert Eliot Lutz '21, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar; Paul Kinney McElroy '20, George Newhall Clark; Jorge Valentin Manach '21, Bowditch; William Ford Manley '22, Burr; James Hilton Marr '21, Lucy Osgood; Sidney Alfred Montague '21, Lady Mowlson; Fulmer Franklin Mood '21, Harvard College; John Ulric Nef '20, Harvard College; Charles Barker Nichols '21, Harvard College; Philip Samuel Nisson '21, C. L. Jones; Chester Dwight Perry '21, Abbot...