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Approximately 100 original drawings by Walter Crane which were used for the illustrations in two of his books have recently been given to the Treasure Room of Widener Library by A. H. Parker '97. These drawings are supplementary to a group of books and pictures by Crane and by Caldecott that Mr. Parker gave to the University last fall...
...Caracalla in Rome to sketches similar to one entitled "William Morris speaking from a wagon in Hyde Park, May 1, 1894." The drawings were intended for reproduction and many of them bear, in the artist's handwriting, instructions to the engraver and frequently the words: "Return to Walter Crane: 18 Holland St., Kensington...
...Crane Co. (plumbing fixtures, machin...
Away onto the hot plain sped the Crane motor. Ten miles. At the village of Zubeir some shepherds shouted excitedly that there were bandits about. Twenty miles, thirty, forty. Every now and then Missionary Bilkerd would stand up in the machine and peer about, but he could see no bandits. Fifty miles, sixty, suddenly from behind rocks sprang the bandits, opened fire...
Late that night the Crane car reached Basra again, bullet-riddled, bearing a dead man. Straight to the U. S. Consulate went the Friend of Small Peoples, and there he gravely told what had occurred...