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...this letter Wilhelm von Bode, director-general emeritus of the Prussian State Museums, mentions a highly commendatory article on the Germanic Museum of the University, published in the September number of "Der Kunstwanderer." The key note of the article is regret that such a museum of casts of German sculpture should not exist in Berlin...
...blond man of average height, with a mustache in the Kaiser Wilhelm manner, an inadequate nose, and a body that astonishingly, at the slightest excuse, erected mountain-ranges, mounds and melons of muscles-Eugene Sandow, like Mark Hanna, Lillian Russell, George Coxey, John L. Sullivan, was one of the outstanding idols of a period that worshiped modesty in all forms, including the nude. Ladies would prod his dorsal, deltoid and pectoral development with carefully gloved fingers and ask if he were real. Sporting gentlemen with Damn-my-eyes and By-God-Sirs would lay their wagers on him when...
...Goethe's philosophy of life or his practical religion he himself has summed up in two lines. They are the closing lines of a song written by Wilhelm Meisten in the Wanderiahre and sung by a company of artisan...
Married. Mafalda, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, to Philip, Prince of Hesse, nephew of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II; at Racconigi, famed summer palace of the House of Savoy, before 40 kings, queens, princes and princesses, representing nine royal houses. The occasion was raised to historic significance because, for the rst time since the World War, a marriage was celebrated between royal families who were enemies during that conflict...
...cargo of "Swiss mountaineers, young ladies in riding habits, and young; ladies without riding habits or much of anything else," all of which had been touched by the lips of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm, arrived last week in the U. S. They were human figures carved exquisitely upon 70 pipes once belonging to the former Emperor, and recently acquired by Henry W. Faulhaber of Pittsburgh. They were valued...