"I hope, speaking on the part of my companions and myself, that we have done all that we ought to do to prove our tenacity of purpose and devotion to the cause which we have undertaken. This attempt to escape by crossing the southern ice...
"Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages." -- Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame Construction of the Notre Dame de Paris began between 24 March and 25 April, 1163. Notre Dame burned a month ago today. Its history, like that of...
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"Faster than fairies, faster than witches" From a Railway Carriage R. L. Stevenson Dunedin: Frayed Frisket Press, 2005 PR5489 A3 2005 Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, "From A Railway Carriage" was first published in 1885 in A Child's Garden of Verse. England, not Utah, 1885 not 1869, but we like the way...
"Some of the great images of world art began as prints, perhaps using only a block of wood and a carving tool." -- Nancy Berkoff, "Art of Print At Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach" Rare Books contributed images from five of its books...
"But surely the book is now everything. It has become in our time what the cathedral with its frescoes and stained glass used to be, what the palaces and museums, where people went to look and learn, used to be. The book has become the...
And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows! Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge— That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should...
In 2014, the J. Willard Marriott Library joined the world in celebration of the 500 year anniversary of the publication of Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica. On Wednesday, April 17, under the direction of Randy Silverman, head of the Preservation Department, the library hosted several...
