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Peace with Honour by Sydney C. Grier

It was as a critic and a humanist that Pater (1839-1894), professor at Oxford, became a powerful influence on his own and succeeding generations, claiming disciples as diverse as Virginia Woolf and Ezra Pound. This has been described as "the most highly finished of all his works and the expression...

It was as a critic and a humanist that Pater (1839-1894), professor at Oxford, became a powerful influence on his own and succeeding generations, claiming disciples as diverse as Virginia Woolf and Ezra Pound. This has been described as "the most highly finished of all his works and the expression...

The great advocate is like the great actor he fills the stage for his span of life, suc ceeds, gains our applause, makes his last bow, and the curtain falls. Nothing is so elusive as the art of acting, unless indeed it be the Sister art of advocacy. You cannot say that the methods of Garrick, Kean...

If you thought the Pimpernel had it rough with Chauvelin on his trail, try adding Citizens Robespierre, Couthon, Louis Antoine St. Just, and the beautiful Theresia Cabarrus, fiancée of Tallien. Robespierre becomes paranoid about the Pimpernel and must have him destroyed. Theresia is sent to...

Eunice and Cricket by Elizabeth Weston Timlow

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A psychological interpretation of mythology by Otto Rank

The Seven Lively Arts by Gilbert Seldes

Venice by May Sturge Henderson and Beryl de Sélincourt

Gleaner Tales by Robert Sellar