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Winnie Ille Pu, by A. A. Milne, translated into Latin by Alexander Lenard. Liber virginibus puerisque legendis, si quis adhuc vivit satis impiger qui alienum sermonem a maioribus pantopere excultum non fastiviat...
Winne Ille Pu, by A. A. Milne, translated into Latin by Alexander Lenard. Liber virginibus puerisque legendis, si quis adhuc vivit satis impiger qui alienum sermonem a maioribus pantopere excultum non fastiviat...
...Virginibus Puerisque. It was a fair enough start, but the hardest work lay ahead. Members of the Wehrmacht who had changed into civilian clothes had to be rounded up. Somehow, the children would have to be re-educated. Then there was the problem of sifting out the Nazis. Later, the problem of a Nazi underground might also arise...
First editions of practically all Stevenson's works from "Virginibus Puerisque" to "An Apology for Idlers" are abundant. Particularly interesting is the complete manuscript of "David Balfour," written in the fine, legible hand of the author with his own corrections. The copy is remarkably clean. Stevenson, after changing the name of the novel to "Katriona" and then to "Catriona," finally sent it to the press with the latter title, though it is known today more by the original name than the other two. The first illustrated edition of "Treasure Island" is no less interesting than of "Kidnapped," which is dedicated...
...literary allusions or foreign quotations. But really the best are those that pun gently, or carry hidden some delicate and awful meaning. Choice examples of this from other years are "Titus A. Drum" for example, or "Lewd Fellows of a Basser Sort", "Twelve Knights in a Bathroom", or "Virginibus Puerisque...