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There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. Henry Fielding
George W., Knight of Eulogia, from Atlantic Monthly. "A rare look inside Skull and Bones, the Yale secret society and sometime haunt of the presumtive Republican nominee for President."
The Order of Skull and Bones: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask.
One of the great public libraries is The Cleveland Public Library. In the Exhibit Hall you can look at the Libellus Magicus, a nineteenth-century manuscript of conjurations.
The is also a baseball exhibit here.
the most of ???? Special Collections!. From the University of Virginia, all kinds of "most of" categories linked to items in their collection. It's fun and there are some great images!
The Restoration: 1660-1700, an exhibition of books from the Monash University Library Rare Book Collection.
An interview with Nicholas Basbanes, author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books. I have read the book and I highly recommend it.
Garbo Unsealed. On April 15, 2000, the Rosenbach Museum and Library unsealed a collection of letters written by Greta Garbo to Mercedes de Acosta available for research. The letters were given to the museum by Acosta in 1960, with the stipulation that they not be opened until ten years after the death of the last correspondent. Acosta died in 1968 and Greta Garbo died on April 15, 1990. Remarks by Derick Dreher, Director of the Rosenbach Museum and Library and Gray Horan, official representative of the Estate of Greta Garbo.
First Scottish Books, with information and images from the nine earliest books printed in Scotland. A nice site.
From Wellesley College, Women in the Book Arts
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