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Professor Elton, who lectured at Harvard in the spring of 1926, has been appointed lecturer in English for the year beginning next September. He received his M.A. at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Durham, Manchester, Oxford, Edinburgh, and Liverpool. He was King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool from 1900 to 1925, and is the author of books discussing the early periods of English literature...
...announced last week that Master Lambton would be sold to an unnamed Manhattan dealer or collector. The present owner, the Earl of Durham, last August refused $750,000 for the same picture. It was learned that the price now would be $1,000,000. A reason for the deal was surmised: The third Earl of Durham died 16 months ago. His twin, the fourth Earl of Durham, died a year ago. Inheritance taxes subtracted $4,500,000 from the value of the Durham estate, now estimated...
Master Lambton is "The Red Boy," a quaint and pensive child in red velvet seated on a rock overlooking a? landscape of transparent gloom. Master Lambton was the eldest son of the first Earl of Durham; he died in 1831 at the age of 14. His father paid Sir Thomas Lawrence a little more than $3,000 for his portrait...
...into such crannies of knowledge is the habit of the American Historical Society. The members met last week at Duke University (Durham, N. C.). Their president for 1930: Japan-born Evarts Boutell Greene, De Witt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia, eminent authority on colonial times, author (Provincial America, Government of Illinois...
...Meeting of American Historical Association at Durham and Chapel Hill...