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...interesting feature of the exhibition is an original pen and ink sketch of Voltaire, made at Ferney about 1767 by the Swiss printer Huber. There are also two views of Ferney whcih were formerly the personal property of Wagniere, Voltaire's private secretary...
...dialogue is, of course, all mountain dialect, collected by the author at great pains. This dialect is in Mr. Mackaye's words "a noble illiteracy," a language "more flexible than that of the average university graduate," showing "richness of thought and imagination." It is native speech "undiluted by the Ink of the academic or journalistic." Clearly a language meant to be spoken, not printed, and this makes it very difficult for the reader of the printed version to enter into the spirit of either language or play...
Coincident with the opening of the Sargent exhibition in Manhattan, his mural in the Boston Public Library, entitled The Synagogue, was found to be splashed with ink. The painting, representing a woman on the steps of a ruined temple, her crown falling from her head, and clutching in her arms the tablets of Moses and a broken scepter, has been the subject of violent controversy between the civil authorities and prominent Jews who regard it as an insult to their faith. The identity of the ink-thrower is as yet unrevealed, but His aim was not equal to his ardor...
...ticket and hymn competitions, the committee announced the requirements for entries. Ticket designs should be simple so that the reproductions will be clear. They should be made on white paper in black India Ink and be four and one-half by seven and one-half inches in size. They must bear the following words respectively...
...said: "Having accepted the seals of office, and looking back over the past five days, I am more proud of our Empire than I ever was before we passed through this momentous period. A sort of bloodless revolution has taken place. The most that has been spilled is ink...