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A book about Jane Austen and her times for young people and others. Very good .
Among the contents of this issue on Jewish literature are "Distinguished Lineage" and "Rest for the Nerves" by Isaac Bashevis Singer [in Yiddish with an English translation]; Paul Auster on Georges Perec; and contributions by Anthony Hecht, Leslie Fiedler, Charles Bernstein, Cynthia Ozick, Norman Podhoretz and many others. Very good .
Among the contents of this issue are an article on free love by Mary Austin, "Some Remarks on The Income Tax" by Justin Huntley Moore, a "Personal Opinion of the President of China", Yun Shih-Kai, by a Chinese correspondent, and a piece on musical comedy by Harold Stearns. Good .
Library's compliment slip with inscription laid in.
Among the areas included are early imprints, newspapers, publications on American Indians, economics, geography, history, Civil War monographs, literature, law, philosophy and religion. Good .
Mudie writes to the editor of the New York World asking about the possibility of setting up an American lecture tour about the postwar condition of Central Europe. "During 1920 I had recourse to travel over all the European belligerent states and to administer relief in the new Republic of Czecho-Slovakia. I gathered much information political and economic while there and subsequently in the enemy states Austria Germany and Hungary". [The reply, from James Pond of the Pond Lecture Bureau on behalf of the New York World editor, notes that the subject would be of interest to Americans but that setting up any lecture series would have to be preceded by a meeting since interest depends so much on the personality of the lecturer].
Doris Mudie was a British author and translator. She translated and edited, with Elizabeth Hill, "The Letters of Dostoyevsky to His Wife" [1930] and "The Letters of Lenin" [1937]. Mel Brooks' screenplay for "The Twelve Chairs" was based on an English translation by Mudie of the novel "Sitting on Diamonds" by Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. Good .
Together with two songs with words and music by G. Linley, printed on both sides of four 10- 1/4 inch high by 7-78 inch wide sheets of buff paper.The songs, respectively titled "Oh! Where Are They" and "I Resign Thee, Ev'ry Token" are each annotated as "Proof Sheet" in ink by George Linley at the top of the first page of each song. There is some minor foxing and minor wear to the top edges of the pages. There is light dampstaining to the bottom corner of one of the pages. Very good.
WorldCat locates only one of each of these songs identified as numbers 1 and 2 of the series entitled "English Ballad Singer". As identified by WorldCat, the full title of the first work is: "Oh! Where are they, the kind and true?"
The verse writer and musical composer George Linley (1798-1865), wrote and composed several hundred songs between 1830 and 1865. Some of his most popular ballads of the period were "Thou art gone from my gaze", "Song of the Roving Gipsey", "Constance", "Minnie", and the music for Robert Burns' poem "The Jolly Beggars". He wrote the English words to "God Bless the Prince of Wales". Very good .
John Rathbone Oliver [1872-1943] was an American psychiatrist, medical historian,author and priest. After graduating from Harvard and teaching from 1894 to 1897, he entered the priesthood in 1900, leaving it in 1903, probably in the process of coming to terms with being gay. [He returned to the priesthood in 1927]. Oliver obtained his M.D. from the University of Innsbruck in 1910 and from 1917 to 1930 he was Chief Medical Officer for the Supreme Bench of Baltimore and a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. He was also Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Maryland and an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins from 1930 to 1939. Good .
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