Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Poincare, the greatest French mathematician since Pascal, once said that Flammarion was a poet whose gifts enabled him " to describe the sky so as to make people who did not know it love it." Perhaps it was this combination of poet and astronomer that made M. Flammarion write Haunted Houses. The appeal of astral bodies is, after all, only faintly removed from that of the psychic world. The book is disappointing from a scientific point of view; but from that of the layman it provides eeries but fascinating enjoyment...
...five years later, in 1889, that he began to write. With the choice of several languages ? French, German, Russian, Polish?he elected to write in English, which he preferred as a medium of expression. It was four years later still before he showed his manuscript to anyone. On a voyage to Australia aboard the Torrens, he had, as passenger, a Cambridge man. Conrad asked him: "Would it bore you very much reading a manuscript in a handwriting like mine...
...sumptuous repast and dashing music. (None of the above facts could be verified.) . . . At a dinner to members of his Cabinet at the Wembley Exhibition, Premier MacDonald announced that he had been offered by a U. S. agency thousands of pounds for his biography, doubled if he would write a biography of Secretary of State for the Colonies "Jimmie" (J. H.) Thomas, quadrupled if he would prepare the biographies of the whole Cabinet...
...Sheridan, who has read the book, finds it a display of sentimentality, abounding in super-adjectives, containing many plagiarisms, "the outpourings of a gushing school girl." She regrets that Marie did not write of some lovely Rumanian legend, that her Russian blood did not endow her with "some talent, mysticism and taste," that the English blood did not "add a sense of humor to her complex composition." Finally she is left pondering what on earth the book is about. Says Mrs. Sheridan: "A strange young woman named Glava rides a carrot-colored horse whose tail sweeps the ground.... She does...
Queen Marie wrote before the War when she was Crown Princess. The Lily of Life was a juvenile story for her children. Then came the War and she continued to write for a Rumanian newspaper, the articles being afterwards collected and republished in book form under the title War Impres- sions. Her style in this book was ornate, feminine and extremely sentimental...