Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DESOLATE SPLENDOR?Michael Sadleir?Putnam ($2.00). Here is all the mechanism of a mid-Victorian thriller, set forth in a suavely rococo style, at times a trifle suggestive of Bulwer-Lytton?a Ouida plot elaborated with deliberate ornateness. The wicked Earl paints his eyelids. The innocent ward of a charming ex-roué, Charles Plethern, is nearly entrapped into an infamous bargain by Plethern's monstrous mother. The last, by the way, is an admirable character?a sleek, powerful woman who collects Rops etchings and erotic playing-cards and lives in a tower shudderously spoken of as the Devil's Candle...
...Ponsford, a Victoria (Australia) cricketer, broke a world's record of 27 years' standing with an individual batsman's score of 429 in a match against the Tasmania eleven. In the same match the Victorian team raised a world's mark which has stood 22 years when they scored a total of 1,059, every man on the team making double figures...
Cast in a Victorian mold, Louis N. Parker's play of a Victorian statesman, whose vision raised both his country and himself above the throttling influences of the period, was enthusiastically received Monday evening at the Copley. The play, so the program states, is a romantic comedy. And, indeed, this description is in some respects more accurate than calling it a historical comedy would be, for although the interest centers about an actual historical figure in the act of accomplishing an undertaking of historic importance, the material has been so treated that the result frequently resembles more the conventional melodrama...
These and similar donations are continually enriching the stacks of Widener. The library of Charles Eliot Norton, recently bequeathed by his daughter, is a natural supplement to the Longfellow and Lowell gifts, for Dr. Norton was their close friend and had a broad acquaintance among the great Victorian men of letters. His collection numbers personal volumes from Carlyle, Ruskin, the two Americans, and dozens of lesser writers. Professor Coolidge's annual report disclosed what sums are spent on acquiring new books; but huge fortunes and endless effort would be needed even to approach completeness. For most of the minor writers...
...course any self-respecting ghost actively engaged in the business at present will understand at once the importance of this new ruling. Methods of the Victorian Age can no longer be tolerated. To be a success as a ghost today a presence must not only exist; it must proclaim itself, communicate on every possible occasion and, when out of breath, be ready with silent visitations. It must also be prepared at any time to submit to scientific analysis. There is no telling when a call may come in for an interview with the Shrouded Lady of Edgely Manor, Hants...