“BOOK collecting is one of the most fascinating of hobbies,” is the first thing that Mr. Andrew Block says in the preface to his Vade Mecum: and he adds that he has written this…
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“BOOK collecting is one of the most fascinating of hobbies,” is the first thing that Mr. Andrew Block says in the preface to his Vade Mecum: and he adds that he has written this “popular bibliographical work” for “the amateur collector as well as for the average bookseller:” and that one of his objects is “to safeguard the beginner from the more obvious pitfalls which beset his path.”
“With a host of furious fancies, whereof I am commander …” Thus might R. D. Macleod announce himself in the office, charging the atmosphere with vitality. To be middle‐aged was…
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“With a host of furious fancies, whereof I am commander …” Thus might R. D. Macleod announce himself in the office, charging the atmosphere with vitality. To be middle‐aged was very Heaven. The hardships and struggles of youth were behind him: the terrors and trials and loneliness of old age as yet unknown. But all was not sweetness and light. He had the true Celtic temperament,—up in the heights, down in the depths,—and on other mornings he might come in heavy with depression, and the atmosphere be laden with his ill‐humour. The office was that of a library department of W. & R. Holmes, to whom R. D. was consulting librarian.
THE name is arresting, like the personality for which it stands. Cunninghame Graham: Lavery's equestrian portrait of him conveys the essential man as revealed in his writings…
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THE name is arresting, like the personality for which it stands. Cunninghame Graham: Lavery's equestrian portrait of him conveys the essential man as revealed in his writings, though the other one (somewhat reminiscent of Raeburn's Sir John Sinclair), which presents him to us afoot, lacks nothing save a horse for company. He has a passion for horses and has written many an essay in which they are leading characters and one book devoted to them—The Horses of the Conquest. William Rothenstein has recorded him in lithograph and in oils and in Men and Memories includes a reproduction of a painting of him in fencer's garb. Belcher did a charcoal drawing of him—it appeared in Punch—with a lightly indicated background of Hyde Park Corner and a horse or two, in a dexterous mere line or two, clipping past. There is a word‐picture of him in the epilogue to Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion and another in George Moore's Conversations in Ebury Street. Writer, Scots laird, Spanish hidalgo, South American ranch‐owner, he has ridden and bivouaced in Texas and Patagonia and may be found this month in Morocco, next month in London, or in Venezuela, or enjoying a braw day (or a snell day for that matter) in Perthshire.
This paper looks at how technology can increase inclusion and integration in puppetry, and whether such use undermines artistic integrity. It looks at puppetry as a technology and…
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This paper looks at how technology can increase inclusion and integration in puppetry, and whether such use undermines artistic integrity. It looks at puppetry as a technology and what types of adaption can be made, such as adapting the puppet itself, or introducing animatronics or a computer. The range of power sources that can be used are outlined in the ‘operating technique spectrum’. The benefits of adaptation are discussed.
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IF SONS DID NOT EXTOL, many a worthy father would sink into oblivion and forever go unsung. As filial biographers, however, sons customarily meet with intimidating scorn and…
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IF SONS DID NOT EXTOL, many a worthy father would sink into oblivion and forever go unsung. As filial biographers, however, sons customarily meet with intimidating scorn and derision. There is a generally accepted notion that consanguineous biography is fraught more with fealty and filial frailty than with disinterested depiction. The best way to disprove this false assumption is to muster meritorious biographies written by scions and compare them with representative biographies of the ‘blame and blemish’ variety. Sympathetic assessment always stands up stronger than ostensible objectivity, for writers of the ‘warts and all’ kind of biography lose track of virtues and nearly always become engrossed in the imperfections of their victims.
DO you know what an opuscule is? I ask because I have just returned from Russia—where I found three opuscules on Mademoiselle Rachel. Or rather, I suppose them to be opuscules…
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DO you know what an opuscule is? I ask because I have just returned from Russia—where I found three opuscules on Mademoiselle Rachel. Or rather, I suppose them to be opuscules—obviously so: but then, what is obvious to one is not so to another, as the following anecdote will show.