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OMAR KHAYYAM-Harold Lamb- Doubleday, Doran...
...most popular poets of the 19th Century, only three facts are known about Persian Poet Omar Khayyam. He lived in the 12th Century; he was court astronomer for the Sultan Malikshah; his grave is at Nisapur, Persia. On these three facts, some traditions, and much imaginative reconstruction. Author Lamb has written a 316-page story of Omar's life, loves, adventures. Though Omar Khayyam does not read like an eyewitness report. Author Lamb has turned his travels and studies to such good account that his story is pleasantly plausible. Readers may rely on more than half of what...
Yesterday, October 1, marked the entry of the Securities Exchange Commission into full control of the security and Investment business. Now that the "market" has been made safe for the uninitiate by official ukase and the assurance of Ferdinand Pecors that the Lion can lie down with the Lamb without the customary result, the Crimson takes a step forward in the history of college journalism by the inception of a financial department. The Crimson is pleased to announce that it has secured the services of an astute and able observer of market trends, and that a critical analysis of business...
...bolted, little knots of laymen and churchmen gathered whispering. No speeches were permitted in the election they were holding to fill the primacy of the Church of England in Canada. This lordship of 1,232,000 Anglicans had been vacant since the death last summer of Most Rev. Clarendon Lamb Worrell, Archbishop of Nova Scotia. Once held according to seniority, the Primacy became elective under a system by which Canada's 27 bishops and archbishops propose names to an electoral college...
...this Reader many owe their knowledge of the fact that the name of Abou Ben Adhem "led all the rest." Now, with Caroline Norton, one reads about the "soldiers of the Legion" who "lay dying in Algiers," and then he turns to Charles Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig." How many thousands of youngsters have been fired by Webster's "Supposed Speech of John Adams" and how many have laughed over Hawthorne's "Rill from the Town Pump...