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...including 2,000 mobile armored units (mounted knights and their squires), sailed overnight across the English Channel (70 miles) and landed at Pevensey next morning. Immediately he marched to the nearest big city (Hastings), which he started fortifying (building a castle). The British (under King Harold of Wessex), though forewarned, had been drawn away by another invader on the east coast (Harold of Norway) whom they repelled (Battle of Stamford Bridge). Returning hurriedly to the Channel, their lightly armed forces (Saxon soldiers with shields and two-handed axes, peasants with javelins and stone-tipped clubs), were easy carving...
...HARDY OF WESSEX-Carl J. Weber-Columbia University Press ($3). Centennial biography of the great tragic English novelist, which traces the originals of Hardy's Wessex characters. Hardy of Wessex offers an excellent dossier on Hardy's weaknesses-his melodramatics, re-use of plots, gnarled syntax, dullnesses-gives only a fuzzy clue to the central Hardy enigma: How, out of his sardonic imagination and crabbed style, could come scenes so vivid, characters so memorable...
...this afternoon at two o'clock, Vag will climb to Emerson 211 to hear Mr. F. W. C. Hersey give his famed illustrated lecture on "The Wessex of Thomas Hardy's Novels...
...cousin. The manner in which one such ambiguity generates another, and ends by alienating the heroine from her husband, from her son, and finally from the religion in which she has taken refuge, is distinctly suggestive of the manner of Thomas Hardy. Dr. Cronin's literary sojourn in Wessex is perhaps the most important of the several influences to be detected in his work. It appears not only in the implicit irony of his tale, but also in the "tendency to take his vocabulary for an airing." Such redundant phrases, frequently occurring, as "protested the impossibility of such omission...
...French, will give a conference on "French Civilization at 7.15 o'clock this evening. Tomorrow Zechariah Chafee, professor of Law, will speak on "Freedom of Speech" in the senior common room white F. W. C. Hersey '00, instructor is English, will talk on "A Walk Through Hardy's Wessex," which he will illustrate with lantern slides...