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...high pressure measures attendant on their sale have turned the Cambridge bookshops into roaring centers of trade compared to their usual placid atmosphere in the other eleven months of the year. The season for gift books is on, and all the more attractive editions are now the easiest to sell. This explains the present popularity of "N. by E." and "Moby Dick" which have been made so desirable by Rockwell Kent's fine illustrations. A survey of Cambridge bookstores also discloses the Harvard man's predilection for the sophisticated brand of humor displayed by Peter Arno in his "Hullabaloo...
...tragic child-wife, Virginia Clemm, who died in a garret of misery and malnutrition, with a purring cat on her stomach to keep her warm. All three were signed, but Poe who wrote with the careful legible hand of a pre-typewriter newspaper man, had one of the easiest signatures to forge. Careful Bookman Wells took his pictures to the leading Poe authority in the U. S., Dr. Thomas O. Mabbott of Hunter College. Dr. Mab-bott was enthusiastic, authenticated the signatures, referred to a landscape by Poe in the Poe cottage at Richmond, quoted a letter from...
...easiest ways to start an argument is to attempt to define art. Never has it been done to the satisfaction of any considerable number of people, although the production of such definitions is so constant, competitive and exciting among artists and critics that it amounts to a perpetual esthetic parlor game. Defined John Ruskin: "Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together." "Art," hazards John Galsworthy, "is that imaginative expression of human energy, which through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting...
...Easiest way to pacify the students, popularize the Cabinet, seemed to be to appoint the champagne-cocktail Duke as Minister of Education. To oblige his pal and King, blithe Alba took the stodgy post, settled the students' strike in a day, helped immeasurably with his national popularity and prestige to bolster the otherwise undistinguished new Cabinet...
...subject he expects to teach, and if he is not to be a teacher, work in subjects allied to his special interest, as for example in psychology if he is to be a school psychologist or in government if he is to be an administrator. Practice teaching is the easiest form of apprenticeship to arrange and supervise; but the School has the co-operation of a large number of neighboring school systems for apprenticeship in other forms of educational service...