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With reference to the stories themselves. Professor Palmer showed how the "Iliad", with a duration of only a few days, reaches a great height of splendor, while the Odyssey has an even beauty, which is lacking in the "Iliad", as well as great artistic skill. "The ability to produce joy", he said, "seems to be at its height in these poems. It is not the source of the various incidents, but the way in which they are welded together that is the sign of the artist...
...University Glee Club, with Mlle. Novaes as assisting artist, will give the second of a series of three concerts at Symphony Hall, Boston, at 8.15 o'clock this evening. Dr. A. T. Davison '06 will have under his direction 115 members of the University. George Renwick '24 will be the soloist in "Vieille Priere Bouddhique", L. R. Ring 1G. in "Hymn to Manas", and M. L. Brown '25 in "Pirate Song...
...Story telling, he said, "is a vital job, and the author is not a person who invents stories, but an artist, sensitive enough to feed the concepts of his mind and leave them into a form of beauty". He explained further that the novelist is bound by the tradition of his profession and by the knowledge of his technique. And this technique names from such a love of his material that he does not dare to hurt...
...critic of literature has advanced to join the army which already exists, a critic from the allied kingdom of the movies. Rudolph Valentino,--actor, artist, dancer, and now author,--has called attention to a different horizon for the novel in an article in the Bookman...
...middle-ages and the days of the Italian renaissance it was possible for one man to learn everything that there was to know. Leonardo da Vinci was an engineer and artist at the same time, and attained a fame in both capacities which has seldom been surpassed by moderns. Then, too, he was stimulated in his work by a spirit of competition which gave rise to some of the greatest products of art and architecture that the world has seen. These influences have been embodied to a large extent in the plans of the School of Architecture, and the Department...