Word: humanized
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...admirable ease and grace of the narrative as well as the pleasing truth with which the principal characters are designed make "The Vicar of Wakefield' one of the most delicious morsels of fictious composition on which the human mind was ever employed. We read it in youth and age--we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature."--Sir Walter Scott. Large quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. Published at $20.00. Constable, Ltd., London. Special Price...
There is no doubt that Gray's words go straight to the heart, for they embody in simplest fashion the most universal experience of human nature. His "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen," "Some mute inglorious Milton," "The rude forefathers of the hamlet," "The paths of glory lead but to the grave," are quoted and loved the world over. The most attractive edition of the "Elegy" ever printed. Quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. A. & C. Black, London. Published at $3.00. Special price...
...remains to all time, a lasting record of human needs and human consolations; the voice of a brother who ages ago felt and suffered and renounced. In the cloister; perhaps, with serge gown and tonsored head, with a fashion of speech different from ours, but under the same silent, far off heavens, and with the same passionate desires, the same stirrings, the same failures, the same weariness."--George Eliot. 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Chatto and Windus, London. Published at $2.50. Special price...
...Dramatic Club made an excellent choice for its play this year. "The Dragon" is a delightful medley of old Celtic folk tales, Gilbert and Sullivan successes and the finished dramatic technique and the kindly human sympathy conspicuous in Lady Gregory's works. In its reminiscence of old tales, it suggests at once parts of that great mediaeval romance, "Tristram and Iseult...
...living power of human institutions, apart from their physical equipment, and, it sometimes seems, apart from the individuals composing them, is one of the most striking characteristics of such institutions. The greatness of Harvard is not in its buildings or alone in its teaching staff. One of the most important assets is the extent that it lives as a force in the minds and spirit of its graduates and its students...