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...other issues contain Stevenson's "The Philosophy of Umbrellas," which he used intact in a later book of essays, an editorial on Debating Societies, "An Old Scotch Gardener," and his "Philosophy of Nomenclature...
Oxford's "The Dark Blue," published in 1871, with its ornate cover featuring three Greek ladies, presumably Muses, next catches the eye. The five issues on exhibition proudly display the fact that they were once the property of Lewis Carroll, and contain articles by Andrew Lang and Thomas Hughes, Cambridge's parody on "The Dark Blue," "The Light Green" is next. Its attitude is evident from the names of its "authora": "Alfred Pennysong, Bred Hard, Edward Leary. Algerman Charles Sin-Burn. Thomas Carr Lisle, the late Edgar Allan Toe, Rosina Christetti, and Louisa Caroline...
Next comes four volumes of "College Rhymes," contributed to by members of Oxford and Cambridge. The first volume is edited by Lewis Carroll, and the others contain many of his poems. There are also two etchings, done by Thackeray while he was a student at Cambridge, depicting college life...
...attack the play with any violence, they didn't damn it with faint praise, they just accepted it as the solution of the rather considerable problem of Aunt Matilda making her annual pilgrimage to the theatre. "The Distaff Side" remains that sort of play and since Boston seems to contain more Aunt Matildas than New York it should be liked in this cultural center...
...supply. Now, though Author Diggers' widow receives a royalty on each, Chan's cases and his mottoes are invented for him by Fox scenarists. Almost anyone who is not otherwise engaged around the Fox studio serves as his director. Aside from their central character, Charlie Chan casts contain few notables. Their settings are cheap. They are made in 24 days. They are particularly popular in China, where audiences are grateful for a compatriot who is neither opium-smoker nor hatchet man. Almost all the letters which they arouse are addressed not to Warner Oland but to Charlie Chan...