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...Golden Book of Venice, was the official list of the Venetian nobility, who alone could vote or hold office in that remarkable republic of aristocrats." This Golden Book, then, was for a literary aristocracy, "not of birth, but of performance." It was a new monthly anthology of classic fiction, the sort of volume you might make up unconsciously by rummaging during a month of evenings among the master tale-tellers in your library. The editors-Henry Wysham Lanier, of the Review of Reviews, assisted by Dr. William Lyon Phelps, high priest of letters at Yale University, Stuart P. Sherman, literary...
...Monde ou I'On s'Ennuie" he has embodied these characteristics in Suzanne de Villiers, whose part is played by Miss Janet Sabine. Some of the other characters in the play have become classic. La Duchesse de Reville personifies common sense and defiance of convention. La Comtesse de Ceran typifies coldness, severity, and conventionality. These roles are played by Miss Ethel Thayer and Miss Emily Sears respectively. Lucy Watson, played by Miss Mary Otis, is an English girl who quotes Hunter and Darwin profusely and publicely, desiring to pass as a member of the "intelligensia...
...stationary or weak-another normal sign of a good-sized "bull market." The heavy trading in shares has drawn forth many comparisons with active markets in the past-particularly with that of 1901. As yet, however, the present market has still to equal many records established in that financial classic. No bull day has yet seen 3,200,000 shares sold, as on Apr. 30,1901. No bear day-yet-has equalled the record of May 9, 1901 (the day of the Northern Pacific corner), when over 3,300,000 shares were sold on the Exchange. In 1901, something less...
Italy is the classic land of dictators. To her long line of emperors and popes, to her commercial titans of Venice and Genoa, to her art masters of Florence and Rome, and to her indomitable Mussolini of contemporary fame, is now added another picker up of the discarded toga of Cincinnatus. All literary Europe is agog over Benedetto Croce who poses, and by many is accepted, as the Doctor Johnson of his day. Scholar, statesman, and philosopher, his most recent work in the field of literary criticism is an astonishing volume upon "European Literature of the Nineteenth Century...
Both Modern and Classic Pieces...