* * * * A German Friend Of Mine Recently
propounded a theory which has a bearing on this theme. He said that, after constant visits to the National Portrait Gallery, he had come to the conclusion that our......
It Is A Curious Experience Thus To Label The Momentary,
in fact the instantaneous, impressions of previous years. A dual effect is produced upon the memory. The first effect is atmospheric, as when one plunges a hand into a bowl of......
She Asked The Interpreter, Who Had Accompanied Her Upon Her
tour, what interest this workman could possibly derive from the photograph of an unknown uncle of some unknown aristocrat abandoned in a Crimean villa. The interpreter answered......
People And Things
By HAROLD N1COLSON HAVE devoted some hours during these Christmas holi- days to a task which is both otiose and exacting, both sedative and precise. For years the snapshots......
It Must Be Confessed, Of Course, That The Photographs Of
a previous age seem so remote that they lose all reality. I was examining recently a college group taken at Balliol is 1879. There they all were—Lord Salisbury, Lord Midleton,......
I Did Not, As I Had Feared, Find That My
task filled me with depression. I experienced " the ground-swirl of the perished leaves of hope." I felt that I had concluded this year, 1939, with an act of piety towards the......
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