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Judge Hugh M. Morris of the U. S. District Court at Wilmington, Del., gave an opinion of 20,000 words, denying the allegations of the Government that the sale was illegal because of an insufficient price, because of lack of authority, or because of a technical conspiracy...
...Canby was born in Wilmington, Del. He was graduated from and took his post graduate work at Yale University. For a time he was assistant editor of the Yale Review. During the War he was busy with liaison work. His books include discussions of the short story, a novel, Our House, collections of essays and editions of one sort or another...
...Stevenson, Cooper, Malory's Morte d'Arthur-not to mention his own Robin Hood, Otto of the Silver Hand, etc.-alive in many a boy's heart; but he was also a great and serious artist on canvas and in mural decoration. Pyle was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1853, and lived there until his death in 1911. He knew the satisfaction of being an honored prophet in his own community. To his home flocked students, for he was an inspired teacher who taught for love of it, and many of our best American illustrators were among...
...Wilmington Fine Arts Society has opened in the new Wilmington Institute Library a Howard Pyle Memorial Gallery, where it has collected 267 works of Pyle in various media. One room is devoted to oil paintings, another to black and whites and sketches, a third is an exact replica of the living room in the artist's Wilmington residence. This room was notable for eight mural paintings, ceiling decorations, and a fireplace, by Pyle himself. These pictures, dealing in subject with the genesis of Art and Literature, had been damaged during a fire at the Pyle house, but have been...
...popular painter of Wilmington...