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...difficult to select extracts from his various articles as the humor is so closely woven into the whole of each. His struggles with a typewriter--which by the way is "Ami et a mijge imean a midgt, made of alumium."--renders one helpless with mirth; while his essays on The Grasshopper, The Art of Poetry, and About Bathrooms, are inimitable. Their humor is somewhat more restrained than that of A Criminal Type, from which we quoted above, as also is that of Reading Without Tears: but perhaps for this very reason they are even more delightful and valuable. For impertinent...
...following educational centres will offer special summer courses and organize special summer courses and organize special tutorial classes for Americans: Universities of Besancon, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Nancy, Paris, Strasbourg, and Toulouse (summer courses at Bagneres de Bigorre), and the Institut d'Etudes francaises de Touraine et Tours...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, in conjunction with Mr. Jean Bedetti, violoncelloist, will give the third concert of its annual winter series. The following program will be presented: 1. Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major "Eroica" Beethoven 2. Concerto in D major, for Violoncello, Haydn 3. Orchestra Fragments from "Daphnis et Chloe", Ballet in One Act, Ravel...
...dress of the figures. The composition is of the simplest, the drawing spirited and sure. It is interesting to note that the picture is remarkably close to a recent purchase of the Louvre, attributed to Mitsunobu (1433-1525) and published in "Le Musee du Louvre depuis 1914, Dons, Legs et Acquisitions", issued...
There of these forthcoming works as volumes 28, 29 and 30 of the Harvard Oriental Series, edited by C. R. Lanman, professor of Sanskrit in the University, and Correspondent de I'Acedmie des Inscription et Belles-Lettres de I'Institutde France. The new volumes are called "Buddhist Legends", and are translations by Dr. E. W. Burlingame of a story-book written in the sacred language of Buddhism, the Pall, in Ceylon, 450 A. D. They give a vivid picture of ancient monastic life in India; a direct counterpart of the Legends of the Christian Saints...