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WRITTEN in the leisurely tempo of the epoch which is its setting, "The Singing Swan" brings another character of Doctor Johnson's time to modern literature. Anna Seward, poetess, romanticist, and the woman who dared to beard the dean of English lexicographers to his face, finds kind if at times somewhat detailed treatment at the hands of her biographer, Margaret Ashmun...
...Anna Seward was one of the leading "female authors" of her day. Living in Lichfield, birthplace of the "Great Bear", Doctor Johnson, she was the center of a brilliant set of literary and artistic notables. Like her rival and townsman, Anna Seward is remembered better for her life than for her works. Her poems describing the explorations and exploits of Captain Cook receive less consideration from Miss Ashmun than her meetings with Walter Scott; Dr. Darwin, the great Darwin's grandfather; Romney, who painted her portrait twice; Carey, the translator of Dante; and the poet Southey. Other men of similar...
...side industry popular among U. S. countryfolk is raising rabbits to sell for fur and meat. But last week into the bankruptcy court of East St. Louis, Ill., marched Mrs. Anna R. Brown of Chester, Ill., a rabbit-raiser of wide renown. She had debts of $39,570. Her only assets were 300 rabbits. Like other big rabbit-raisers, Mrs. Brown had done business in this fashion: Starting with a few rabbits of pedigreed stock, she would farm out pairs of their offspring to smaller raisers, promising to buy the grandchildren back at $2 a head.* Then she would market...
...Professor Freud's theories throughout his long career. Against that opposition he, always a shy man, built the fastness of his Vienna home. Last week, while savants did him homage the world over, he did not emerge from his retreat. Illness was his good excuse. His wife and Anna, the only unmarried one of their six children, would not admit even relatives...
...contest with her strong, clear tones. Asked for an interview, Impresario Paul Sydow refused in her behalf. Said he: "I don't want her to go like Marion Talley. Besides, she has enough to do to learn her part in ten days." In this same favorite opera, Soprano Anna Turkel of Woonsocket, R. I. touched fame by a triumph in the Cairo opera house witnessed by U. S. Minister William M. Jardine, Prime Minister Ismail Sidky Pasha and many another important Egyptian (TIME, Feb. 23). Soprano Turkel started with at least one advantage over Housewife Wallack. She used...