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...first the frequent use of obsolete words in conversation leads to a measure of resentment, for one fears that the writer is setting out to display a large and scholarly knowledge of the period under his pen. But none can condemn him for not at once setting his readers at ease. Nothing is more difficult than disentangling a reader from his own era and transporting him back to times gone before. One is compelled to praise the crescendo of appeal developed by Mr. Colby as he travels westward, eastward, southward, and finally Westward. Only by a genial perusal of dark...
Although the author has not been as successful in portraying this Golden Age of Rome as Gertrude Atherton was in recreating for us fifth century Athens, nevertheless, the reader is sure to carry away a fairly substantial picture of the life at Rome in the height of its greatness. Inevitably other great characters of history figure to a more or less extent in this account; men such as Caesar, Crassus, Octavius, Mark Antony, Brutus, Cassius are all seen in their relation to Cicero and his times. Of course Cicero's life is the central theme of the book...
...Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder--but with Mr. Mumford at this point we are forced to part company. Winslow Homer we are willing to praise, but the other two are unworthy of the high position the author accords them. Perhaps the fault lies in the perspective of each individual reader--Mr. Mumford has evidently forgotten his European background...
...Current Jewish Record is a pocket-size monthly similar to Reader's Digest. It is an anthology of articles culled from the press of the world about Jews, Jewish problems, or subjects affecting Jews. By no means all the material is selected from the Jewish press. In the first issue are articles from Nation, Christian Century, FORTUNE, Outlook, Harper's, New Republic. In the publishers' words the magazine will "convey a cross section picture of the Jew . . . express no editorial opinion, sponsor no 'isms' . . . leave to the organizations which are better equipped for the purpose...
Professor Copeland, Boylston Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Oratory and nationally famous for his popular anthology, "The Copeland Reader," has always made a practice of reading several selections aloud on an evening prior to the Christmas vacation at the Union. Last year he read several poems, and Dickens' "Christmas Carol...