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...sculpture which is at present on the west pediment represents the seal of the Holden family, surrounded by the figures of cherubs, and angels. It is probably the oldest bit of wood carving existing in the University...
...there will be such magazines. Just as there are copies of Voltaire and of Rabelais and of the countless others who have written with a bit of salt in their ink. For that is an angle of life. And to live some people must see life from all of its angles, just as others must refrain from seeing it from any angle. "Hatracket" will arise whenever Bostonians find their bucolic boundaries crossed by realism or by candor. And the same race which maintains the limits of Boston culture will frown upon those who jibe at the rouged...
...Republic of France is amused by anachronisms. And La Mariniere is an anachronism. A prison ship sailing modern seas, is it not intriguing? Perhaps some Wilde will picture another bit of blue these voyageurs call their sky: perhaps some Lovelace will discover for them that even the penal isolation of French Guiana is not a cage. La Mariniere sails on. Classicists and romanticists, cynics and cooks, these branded brethren of despair continue their one determined and certain route. Outward bound delightful trip, and on the government. Bon voyage...
...wits and use them abundantly, but if they are to use them in a manner which could not possibly exert practical influence upon any jury, any Legislature, any public assembly or board of directors, let some new name be invented for such lightsome exercise. After all, it is a bit laughable to drag the laws of argumentation into the making only of laughter. Better the smile alone, without implied insult to logic...
...JUAN?A Play in Three Acts?James Elroy Flecker?Knopf ($2). This bit will be of interest to those who esteem Flecker's genius of the first order, and to whom even an incomplete sketch from his pen is of value. In the first scene of the play there is a shipwreck. The stage in complete darkness, a shrieking wind carries terror to reader or audience; the lights of a pitching steamer appear and on the instant a grinding crash is heard; the lights shudder, become fixed. For a moment only, the moon escapes from heavy clouds to shine...