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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in ' Rose Bernd, ' brings forward another Silesian village tragedy, this time of child murder; but in interest and workmanship it falls below his ' Fuhr- mann Henschel' of 1898. Fulda has again, and deservedly, scored a great success with his verse comedy, ' Novella d'Andrea, ' an Italian story of the fourteenth century, the action taking place at Bologna, and centring round a lady professor at the University there, who fails to find in learning and fame a substitute for ' the crown of happy love.' Max Halbe in ' Der Strom' has produced a drama of passion worthy to stand beside his 'Jugend' which will ever rank as one of the finest of modern German plays in its particular genre. The passions of nature, the destructive aftion of winds and waves form the background to the human passions of love, hate, greed and fraud that sway the aftors in the drama. Here we must bring our survey to a close. If in its course we have met nothing that will give its author a foremost place in the Temple of Fame, let us remember that a wise man once declared: nullum esse librum tarn malum ut non in aliqua parte prodesset.' Elizabeth Lee. chapter{{Section 4 NET BOOKS. Why It is Not Practicable To Make A Reduction In Their Price To Libraries. N article appeared in the July number of The Library ' in which complaint is made that no discount off net books is allowed to libraries, and suggestions are offered as to what form of 'retaliation' should be advocated by librarians. In the April number a similar complaint is made in the ' Notes on Books and Work.' The July article is signed by ' Castor and Pollux, ' and the ' notes' in the April number are signed by A. W. P.' ' Castor and Pollux' are presumably librarians, and Mr. Pollard says: ' I have put these points with some fervour, because bei.
| ISBN-13 | 9780217089784 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021708978X |
| Weight | 0.92 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 In |
| List Price | $20.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 280 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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