Word: antiquarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considerably less room for doubt in an epee match. The weapons are tipped with tell-tale red ink. The men who did the most red-inking in the Thompson epee bouts were a slim, drawling southerner, Lieut. Gustave M. Heiss, 1933-34 U. S. champion, and a British antiquarian, Charles Louis de Beaumont. They scored three triumphs each and tied the bout in which they faced each other. In the total scoring, the U. S. team, none over 29, had considerable edge over their challengers, whose combined ages were almost twice as great. The U. S. team went into...
...contains the valuable collection of the Lexington Historical Society. On the road to Concord there is an opportunity to inspect the Wayside, the home of Hawthorne, and the Orchard House, the home of the Alcotts. After dinner at the Colonial Inn the party proceeds around Concord, visiting the Antiquarian Society, (where is housed the furniture from Emerson's study and many other interesting exhibits) the Concord Battle Ground, and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Here are buried Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Through the courtesy of Mrs. Sarah Ripley Ames the party will be shown through the Old Manse, a house...
Shouldn't the premises of the American Antiquarian Society be investigated, as well as the rooms of eminent private collectors? How do we know that the jealousy of some other city--Worcester, Springfield, Hartford--may not have inspired the crime? So the lovers of old sanctities asked. Whoever did this deed is no common criminal. He has committed sacrilege. He has pillaged a shrine. Not since the mutilation of the Hermae at the other Athens has such an infamy been perpetrated. Friday the Cod was returned. Where is the Codnapper? --New York Times...
...word about Antiquarian Booksellers. If I may generalize, in America they are good business men rather than good bookmen. I know of about two and one half exceptions to this. High rents, high wages, high cost of living have led the American bookseller to specialize in the "high spot" items. An interesting miscellaneous stock does not pay for its keep in this country. The result is to considerably narrow the vision of the bookseller...
...been said that the standard of culture in England is higher than in the United States. If this is true, the lack of the right kind of bookshops is a contributing cause. In the mother country, every town has its antiquarian bookshop where the youth may browse and the scholar linger. It is vastly stimulating to pore over old books; to discover literature in its contemporary form. While a diamond is always a diamond, it is enhanced by its setting. So also with literature. Who can compare the joy of finding a beautiful passage on an old page...