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...Crowninshield Scholarships, founded in 1877, by Francis Boardman Crowninshield were awarded to Henry Michael Adlis, of Lynn, Howard Alexander Cook, of New York City, Robert William Furlong, of West Roxbury, and Dean Nevin Shaffner, of Waverley...
...will be used for a small psychiatric ward for the special treatment of early cases. The unit will cooperate closely with the recently founded McLean Hospital in Waverly. Thus the incipient cases will be studied at the Massachusetts General Hospital, while the more difficult cases will be handled in Waverley...
Anthony Adverse is a three-decker, picaresque-historical novel, crammed with enough people, action, scenery, philosophy, comedy, bloodshed, love and death to furnish a dozen books. Built to an old-fashioned design but modern specifications, it starts off like a Waverley Novel, soon gets beyond the purport of its traditional beginning. Like Tristram Shandy's, its hero makes a belated appearance, but when he does his fortunes hold the unwieldy tale together. In following him, however, the story loses track of some promising minor characters whose disappearance is disappointing, whose reappearance is sometimes anticlimactic. From France to Italy...
...duty on post-horses was raised when tourists began flocking to see its authentic background. Scott had a shrewd publisher in famed Constable, but they quarreled and Scott set up his old schoolmate James Ballantyne and his brother in a rival house. Soon Scott began publishing anonymously the successful "Waverley Novels." Even the Prince Regent could not induce "The Wizard of the North" to drop his anonymity-until Ballantyne & Co. failed. Scott went back to Constable. In 1825 Constable too crashed, leaving Scott more than $600,000 in the red. Friends, admirers, bankers offered to help. But Sir Walter Scott...
Celebrating the centenary, Prince George of England and the Lord Provost of Edinburgh led a procession from St. Giles's Cathedral to the Scott Monument in Princes Street. In Waverley Market, school children performed a masque based upon the Waverley Novels. Miss Patricia Scott, great-great-great-granddaughter, unveiled a memorial in Galashiels, across the River Tweed from Abbotsford. Sir Robert Home, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a speech extolling Scott's "shining immortality." From Galashiels, whither went many a Scottish pilgrim, was broadcast a musical version of the Lay of the Last Minstrel. In Dryburgh Abbey...