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...songs represent something of an anomaly: Dryden, the greatest of English neo-classic writers has excelled himself as a lyric poet; and further he wrote the best of them, "Alexander's Feast," at the age of sixty-six, when the fire of most songsters has long since died. Dryden's lyric gift was constant throughout his long and varied literary career. The songs are some of them in the tradition of Catullus and Robert Herrick, some in that of the popular English plain-song. They are most exquisite when most indecent, and very beautiful both when...
...that neither of the two topranking Crimson, starts participated. In the league match on the preceding afternoon against the Business School, the college A team eked out a scanty triumph of 3 to 2. In the feature game, the ability of Robert Grant'35 to return many of the neo-aces of Patterson did not offset his inability to prevent the ball from coming off the back wall, and he bowed before the former Harvard squash captain's experience and finesse. The blasting drives of J. G. Cornish ocC, spelled the immediate defeat of Clark. The last three matches were...
...masculine" Renaissance; 2) the light "feminine" periods such as 18th Century, Empire, Directoire; 3) the neoclassic; 4) the Colonial; 5) the modernistic. Standard Sanitary emphasizes the neoclassic; Crane the Renaissance; Kohler the "Metropolitan," a modernistic style which, according to an exposition salesman, "means as much as Standard's neo-classic." But all three master plumbers plumb in all periods...
...MASTER OF THE HOUSE-Radclyffe Hall-Cape &; Ballon ($2.50). By means of a simple but elaborated style Authoress Hall diffuses throughout her book a balmy neo-Biblical atmosphere, like that of George Moore's The Brook Kerith. Like that book, The Master of the House treats of the Christ story; but Authoress Hall, longtime a Council member of the Society for Psychical Research, has ideas about Christ that would wilt Materialist Moore. She leaves the historic Christ alone, merely shows, how, in one of his characters, a boy chances to reincarnate the psychic Christ. In the little Provengal town...
...entered Harvard; at 18 he was graduated; at 30 he had lost his first wife, his faith in his clerical calling, everything but his faith in himself and Nature's Neo-Platonic Over-Soul. To prove himself, to share his thought with others, he went to Europe, saw its civilized sights, met its civilizing men. Landor, Coleridge, Wordsworth and especially Carlyle delighted him. After a year he returned to Concord knowing what...