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Other plates on exhibition are those from the books from the library of Paul Riant, member of the Institute of France, Historia of the Latin East, and the volumes from the collection of Konrad von Maurer of Munich...
...Author was born 43 years ago in Munich. His youth was spent learning about philosophy and literature among the wide avenues and beer gardens of Munich and Berlin. In 1905 he organized a cabal for the furtherance of modern literature ? an institution which was glared at by the fishy eyes of Imperialism. His plays ? especially Vasantasena which played 1000 times in eight years? made his reputation in Germany. The Ugly Duchess, published in England in the able and sensitive translation which is now to be released in the U. S., became vastly popular as had Author Feuchtwanger...
...jaundiced little shaver is pictured wading through a swamp of flowers, lies the story of a Tyrolean peasant, who, instead of a halo, carried a raven on his shoulder. Hugo Harpf, imagined as a very recent saint, toiled in his village, loved a peasant's daughter, went to Munich to learn how to paint and came home to work miracles. For this he was first killed and then worshipped. In its intention the story is not so much a satire as a critical footnote on the life of Christ. Beyond this it is a picaresque skeleton clothed with the abundant...
Thus it happened that the Nobel "Peace Prize" for 1927 was awarded, last week, to two elderly and little-known "fraternizers among nations": Professor Doktor Ludwig Quidde of the University of Munich, 69; and Professor Ferdinand Buisson, 86, retired, onetime preceptor at the Sorbonne. When the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), which is charged with making the award, announced its decision, last week, a teapot-tempest of press indignation seethed...
...Paris, others at Nice, Florence, Rome, Dresden, Munich, Geneva and Lucerne. They are supported by U. S. residents, expatriates, and tourists in Europe...