W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...
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The Bequest 10/11/2003: 553 words, approx. 2 pages
Remembrance of things past THE BEQUEST by John de Falbe Harvill, L15.99, pp. 325, ISBN 1843430398 This is a mixture of a chronicle novel and a biography of the author's family in the 19th century, and begins with a double-page spread of family...
Woman's gift allows Presbyterian to add works of art to hospital spaces In life, Margaret Erickson went out of her way to make life more livable, even for people she didn't know. So it's not surprising that she would do the same...
The financially faltering Fisk University is seeking a quick ruling on whether it can sell a 50 percent stake in a 101-piece collection of artworks donated by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1949.But first the college will have to overcome the protests of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum...
Brooke Astor, the aristocrat who spent her long life giving away millions of dollars, carefully arranged to continue her philanthropy after she died. But her favorite charities fear that the nasty family fight over her estate could bleed millions more from the bequest she left.The...
