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Japanese Threat. It is easy to understand why France and Britain should not feel too unhappy at the idea of Italian control of Abyssinia. Their neighboring colonies have suffered severely from raids by Abyssinian tribesmen. Italy would probably stop that. Nineteenth Century Britain was content to discipline Abyssinia in hard-fought border skirmishes. Since then she has acquired peaceably what she wants most in the country: control of Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile and life blood of the thriving Sudan cotton fields. Djibouti in French Somaliland is the port of entry for all Abyssinia, and France already controls...
...Middle Ages are a literary mine whose rich veins are still far from exhausted, are now beginning again to be reworked. Nineteenth Century romancers like Walter Scott and Charles Reade brought up so many tons of ore that the market for a time was overloaded, but the success of such modern miners as Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess) and Alfred Neumann (The Devil) showed a renewing demand. Last week's medieval romance. Dew in April, did not assay nearly so high as Power orThe Devil, but it was much solider stuff than last year's highly touted...
...administrators have failed to provide an adequate supply of scores and manuscripts in Widener. Indeed, not since the days of Bryan and free silver when the larger part of the collection of music was acquired, has this department received the recognition which it deserves. In consequence of this, the nineteenth century composers from Beethoven to Brahms are exceedingly well represented, but there are entire periods of great music, such as the seventeenth century, where the scarcity of the music works real hardship upon the Department...
...quite innocent of most of such music, in spite of the fact that much of what he is seeking has been published. Being a persevering fellow, he doggedly goes to the eighteenth century, where again he finds little beyond Bach, Handel, Rameau, Mozart, and Hayden. Having perhaps studied the nineteenth century, our student skips a hundred years, but faints away on the cold floor of the stacks when he finds no English composers except a little Vaughan Williams and Holst; none of the Italian, Malipiero; no scores of the Hungarians, Bela Bartok and Kodaly; no modern German or Austrian except...
...exhibition of undergraduate magazines of the nineteenth century in England, edited by men later to become famous as authors, is being held in the Widener Room of the Widener Library for the next two weeks. Among the men who contribute to these magazines are Robert Louis Stevenson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Lewis Carroll, and William Makepeace Thackeray...