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Here is a slender volume, exquisitely printed, containing twenty-six poems--the one from which the book takes its name and twenty-five lyrics of amazing craftsmanship and power. It is called, unnecessarily. "Priapus and the Pool" Uncouth., essentially Roman divinity, Priapus seems of late to have gained many followers far afield both in literature and music. But those who grub in books for the unwholesome or the obscene (Vice Commissioners take note!) will be deeply disappointed by the sheer beauty of these poems. The title is inappropriate. The poems themselves are as lovely as any love-lyrics I know...
...professional basis as it is in Great Britain. But that the public shall demand that the colleges shall turn aside from the purposes for which they were founded and shall make expensive sacrifices of the time and energy of their students and of their intellectual interests to provide a Roman holiday for the sport loving public is something which the public has no right to demand and which no self-respecting college has the right to consent...
...colonelcy in the "King's American Dragoons" and placed on half pay. In the same year he was knighted by George III. He then entered the service of the Elector of Bavaria and remained at Munich for eleven years. In 1791 he was made a count of the Holy Roman Empire and chose the title Rumford from the name of the town in America to which his wife's family belonged (later Concord, New Hampshire). Rumford was not only celebrated as a soldier and statesman, but was one of the greatest philanthropists and scientists...
...clock.--Fogg Museum: "Graeco-Roman Sculpture", by Professor G. H. Chase, Fine Arts...
...clock.--Fogg Museum: "Roman Architecture", by Professor G. H. Chase, Fine Arts...