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...JACK, by Louise Hall Tharp. An immensely readable biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, one of Boston's most colorful Victorian lady eccentrics. Armed with money, an unfettered imagination and a whim of iron, she kept Boston's newspapers in copy with her antics for half a century - and along the way assembled a collection of great art now housed in the Gardner Museum...
...JACK by Louise Hall Tharp. 365 pages. Little, Brown...
...Boston Symphony, launched Critic Bernard Berenson on his career, and founded an art museum that contains some of the world's finest paintings. She spent a lifetime inventing and exploiting her own legend, and has remained largely a legend since her death in 1924. Now Louise Hall Tharp, whose last book was The Baroness and the General, has written the most extensive and carefully documented biography of this thoroughly improper Bostonian...
...Mann whose practical accomplishments in the cause of public education in the 19th century prompted John Dewey to call him "the greatest of the American prophets of education in and for democracy." In a new biography (Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody; Little, Brown; $5), Mrs. Louise Hall Tharp is too close to the trees of worshipfulrress to see clearly the forest of Mann's contribution. But her book is worth reading, if only as a reminder that Horace Mann was a titan in the field of educational statesmanship...
Bargain. In Chillicothe, Mo., while Mrs. Agnes Tharp was selling clothes at a charity benefit sale, an enterprising fellow charity worker sold Mrs. Tharp's own coat...