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Sunday, Boston in the dimout, the Patagonian lakes, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valery. It has whimsy and charm, but it represents a hybrid culture which Victoria Ocampo has not shed...
...JAMES D. WOOLF Santa...
...oculist, perhaps; but not by Webster. On p. 1827 Reader Woolf will find "persnickety" as a variant of "pernickety...
...furlongs and the Derby's mile-and-a-quarter might not be too long a reach for a horse with Pavot's appetite and disposition. (The only time Pavot ever showed any sign of temper was in the Hopeful Stakes at Belmont last month, when Jockey George Woolf, intent on running a front race all the way, twice tapped him between the ears with the whip, both times got a turnaround dirty look from his mount...
Unfinished Writer. The total effect of A Haunted House is saddening. It adds a postscript to the story of Virginia Woolf. That story's end was more melodramatic, more Elizabethan, than anything that she or her contemporaries wrote. The daughter of the editor of the Cornhill Magazine, with James Russell Lowell for her godfather (she received no religious instruction), with Hardy, Ruskin and Gosse for family visitors and her sister Vanessa for companionship, she was educated at home, too delicate a child to stand normal schooling. Her mother died when she was 13, her father when...