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Frau Cosima Wagner-widow of the pre-eminent German musical composer, Wilhelm Richard Wagner, and daughter of Franz Liszt, of the Hungarian rhapsodies-is reduced to selling a number of her late husband's most valuable relics to keep the wolf from the door.
The second series of "Things That Have Interested Me", by Arnold Bennett is surely worth the price asked. The range of this eminent author's interests is large--from James Joyce as a writer to scenes in Southern France and Portugal, with sidelights on dancing, the length of skirts, marliage...
The S. S. Majestic, on which an eminent British statesman, Lord Robert Cecil, arrives-not on a mission; no, nor lecture tour. (P. 8.)
THE WORLD IN FALSEFACE - George Jean Nathan - Knopf. Mr. Nathan is a conscientious professional iconoclast. He continues to knock down his favorite idols and to scatter the ruins. His victims range from the more eminent of modern dramatists to the more generally accepted of modern doctrines. His endorsements are few...
It is perhaps irrelevant to connect a doubtful metrical translation of Greek tragedies with the University's series of lectures on the four great epic poets given by eminent authorities. But both accomplish the same purpose; a sympathetic appreciation of the spirit of the originals. Few undergraduates read Milton thoroughly...