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...acquisitive urge, the desire to complete and catalogue a series, shows early in some collectors-and in none earlier than Frits Lugt, the century's greatest scholar and collector of Dutch drawings. In 1892, when Lugt was eight and the other little boys in his native Amsterdam were swapping beetles and cigarette cards, he transformed a room into the "Museum Lugtius" with a sign on the door reading "Open when the Director is at home." By twelve, he started a fully annotated catalogue of Netherlandish drawings and, even more surprisingly, kept at it for three years...
...decades before he died in 1970, Lugt knew more about his chosen subject than anyone else alive. His collection of Dutch and Flemish 17th century drawings-there are now 2,500 of them housed in the Institut Néerlandais in Paris, which he endowed-is definitive. The present show at New York's Morgan Library, entitled "Rembrandt and His Century: Dutch Drawings of the 17th Century" and comprising only 132 items culled from the 2,500, conveys at least an idea of the collection's extraordinary range and quality. Lugt's taste...
...make a readable story. Such bestselling authors as Giovanni Gua reschi (The Little World, oj Don Camilla), Bruce Marshall (The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith), and A. J. Cronin (The Keys of the Kingdom) have made the most of it. Now enters Dutch Novelist Arie van der Lugt with The Crazy Doctor, to show that the everlasting contest goes on in Holland too. It is, after all, a universal story, its interest limited only by the writer's originality in fashioning sin and in keeping the priest's skill within the bounds of spiritual fair play...
...such a contest, the outcome is pretty well rigged. What weakens Author Van der Lugt's lively yarn is his unashamed sentimentality, his failure to make the doctor seem like a truly troubled man or even a convinced atheist. What is good about The Crazy Doctor is its author's earthy sense of humor, and the fresh background of Holland life and scenery that sometimes has the authenticity of a Rembrandt. Van der Lugt, a prolific writer still under 40 (more than 70 plays, six novels, many juveniles), writes like a man in a hurry. In his first...
...LECTURES ON THE MODERN GERMAN DRAMA. "Grillparzers Werke II.--Ein treuer Diener seines Herrn, Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen, Der Traum ein Leben, Weh dem der lugt." Professor Kuehnemann. Emerson...