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...Policy." About to leave the Army, Washington wrote (in a letter presented last week to Princeton University) : "Having no reward to ask for myself, if I have been so happy as to obtain the approbation of my countrymen, I shall be satisfied. It still rests with them to compleat my washes by adopting such a system of Policy as will ensure the future reputation, tranquility, happiness and glory of this extensive Empire." The man is all in that passage-his humility, his pride, his sense of honor, his realistic misgivings, his love of order, his vision of "this extensive Empire...
...many a well-read fisherman will recognize, the author is the learned Englishman, Izaak Walton, who grew tired of the life of an ironmonger, retired to the country and took up the contemplative pursuits of literature and fishing. His book, The Compleat Angler, originally published just 300 years ago, was republished this month, following at least 200 other editions, by the Stackpole Co. of Harrisburg, Pa., a city that had not been thought of when Author Walton (1593-1683) wrote his bestseller...
Among the new faces have been Georgia's ex-Governor Ellis Arnall, Harold Stassen, Supreme Court Justice Harold Burton. James Farley was a panel member on Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom. The biggest mail response was won by a discussion of Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler, but that was probably more a tribute to Panel Member Herbert Hoover than to Walton's book. Once, when Invitation was rated by Hooper, Racine's Phedre, for some unexplained reason, scored highest. Lowest was Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer...
...Compleat Angler. No old tale or new notion was unworthy of Aubrey's attention-for "these curiosities," he said, "would be quite forgotten, did not such idle fellows as me putt them downe." From old Dr. William Harvey, who had discovered the circulation of the blood, Aubrey got eyewitness accounts of Sir Francis Bacon, whose eye was "like the eie of a viper." Izaak Walton regaled him with anecdotes about the young bricklayer named Ben Jonson who went to Cambridge and died court poet; from an ancient servant he heard of the historic day when Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh...
Pease Pottage ("Taken from The Compleat Housewife or Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion, published in London...