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...church music in particular. Moreover the book has a truly musical structure in that space is devoted more to the printing of the compositions themselves than to the discussion of them. The reader may not find the music very tuneful; he may be piqued not to find a favorite bit of Lassus included in the collection of reproductions. But considering that the number of Lassus's compositions has been estimated at 1250 and upwards, possible oversights of this kind can be accounted for. Beyond the covers of the book Dr. Davison provides Harvard readers with many interpretations of the motets...
...rolling hills, and a certain Louis Seize drawing room where a joyful terrier momentarily basks before a crackling hickory fire, he wonders dimly how he will endure humdrum Cambridge till June. At this point in his cogitation he wanders absently to the punch bowl, and helps himself to a bit more, with a generous spike...
Last week Joseph Patrick Tumulty, secretary to Woodrow Wilson, confirmed a new and curious bit of U. S. history which had been dug up and quietly divulged by Political Pundit Walter Lippmann in the New York Herald Tribune. What brought it to light was this year's Republican dirge that Governor Roosevelt's election would cause business to mark time from November until March...
Sixteen years ago President Wilson thought he was as good as defeated by Charles Evans Hughes in an election which seemed to mean War or Peace. Democratic clamor against a change of White House leadership seemed to be falling on deaf ears. Pundit Lippmann's bit of history...
...sing a song, dance a bit or write a book, keep your feet on the ground. Too many of us in the ministry talk over our audiences." That was Dr. Joseph Fort Newton's thought when, three weeks ago, he began to syndicate a daily 500-word religious talk called "Everyday Religion," first feature of note since Rev. Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman went into pious colyumny. Famed liberal preacher, now co-rector of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church in downtown Philadelphia, Dr. Newton had been solicited by General Manager Monte Bourjaily of United Feature Syndicate...