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Freda & Ida won dozens of prizes, judges were often confused: Eberhard Faber (pencils) put Freda first ($50), Ida second ($25), while the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts reversed the order. Finally the twins thought perhaps they had better get away from each other's influence. Freda went to the Academy; Ida stayed at Moore Institute. It didn't work. When the twins graduated separately, they still painted alike...
...finest private libraries of German literature, including more than 7,000 volumes from the great periods of the 15th through the 19th centuries, has been received by the University, on loan for a number of years from Dr. Curt von Faber du Faur, of Cambridge, who recently came to this country from Italy...
...representation of the Baroque period in the Faber du Faur library is excelled by few collections even in Germany, and in America only isolated books have hitherto been available for study, University scholars stated...
...house the Faber du Faur library, especially designed cases were installed in one of the vaulted galleries of the Germanic Museum. South German ecclesiastical sculpture and furniture were added to create the atmosphere of a German monastic library of the 18th century...
...Empire. In the first week of the war the London Times recommended, for blackout nights, a reperusal of such "lenitive" 19th Century giants as Trollope and Dickens. Publishers adopted slogans like "Always carry your gas mask; always carry a book." The London Library resolved to stay open. Publisher Geoffrey Faber publicly suggested that writing a book was "the most valuable piece of national service which an author can render...