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...Poems of Francois Villon is the latest literary achievement of Lucius M. Beebe, special student at the University. This translation of the works of the great French poet will be published very shortly by the Brimmer Publishing Company...
...best known ballades and various poems in translation by Swinburne, Rossetti, Payne, and other well known writers. The author's translation is a more accurate rendering of the original than is to be found in most available verse translations. In his introduction Mr. Beebe has taken exception to Villon's many biographers who have written apologetically of their subject...
Scribbling on a tavern table, inflamed with love and drink, the great scamp of poets, null Villon, asked: "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" A political observer might be tempted to ask the same question, with some-what less of pathos and something more of irony: "Twenty months ago a struggle for the Presidency commenced. But where are the men, the issues, of that yesteryear? Then was the springtime of political hope. Now is the autumn of political fruition. But where are the snows whence sprang this herbage...
Poets, from Villon on, have queried the whereabouts of various things at one time or another, but what any number of publishers would like to know at this very moment, is: " Where are the Hentys and Algers, the Oliver Optics and Burt L. Standish's of tomorrow...
...Symphony in E flat major, Mozart Concerto No. 2 in F minor, for piano-forte and orchestra, Chopin Symphonic Poem, "Villon," Wallace