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4  AMERICAN-ANDERSON NEWS   February
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An Important Book Sale for March

On the heels of the important Leiter sale comes another momentous dispersal, markedly different in character, scheduled for the first week in March. This will be the important library of the late Willis Vickery of Cleveland, at the time of his death a Supreme Court Justice of Ohio.

Among the more notable of the rare items are the Four Shakespeare Folios and many of the Quartos; the first Chaucer, 1532, with an apparently unique canceled leaf; Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, colored by Blake himself; and first editions of Keats, Lamb, Omar Khayyam, Shelley, Spenser, and others.
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Lecture by Lord Gorell

Under the auspices of the National Alliance of Art and Industry a very interesting lecture was given by Lord Gorell in the auditorium of these Galleries on January 30. Mr. William Sloane Coffin, President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, introduced the speaker to an audience of about 150 people. Lord Gorell's subject was the Future of Art in Industry, and he told of present activity in industrial art in England. After the lecture, there was a reception, some of the members of the Committee being Richard de Wolfe Brixey, President of the National Alliance of Art and Industry, Raymond M. Hood, Otto H. Kahn, Conde Nast, A. Conger Goodyear, President of the Museum of Modern Art, and others prominent in art and industry.

From time to time, as in the present instance, when the activities of sales and exhibitions permit, the Galleries are available for such use as the above.
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Notes on February Sales
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dividual order. Other important items comprise star rubies, star sapphires, cat's eyes, opals, and emeralds, attractive to many in their present lovely old-fashioned settings or desirable for the fine quality of the stones which lend themselves admirably to remounting. Several pearl necklaces and two pearl dog collars are also included.

The English furniture in the sale of February 23-25 is especially notable for an important group of needlepoint-covered furniture.  A pair of Chippendale carved limewood pole screens with needlepoint panels is a magnificent item, as are also a pair of Chippendale armchairs in Charles II needlepoint.

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Eliot's Indian Bible
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siastically called "the Sons of this our Morning."  When he had finished the translation, he prayed, "Oh, that the Lord would so move, that by some means or other it may be printed."  His appeal had an answer, for in 1663 the Indian Bible, the first Bible printed in America, came from the press at Cambridge, Mass.

Naturally some mistakes in translating occurred, due to a large extent to an underlying difference in meaning of some directly translated words.  For example, among the Indians chastity is a masculine virture.  In the matter of the New Testament story of the ten wise and ten foolish virgins, Eliot's interpreter did not understand that the noun virgin should be feminine, and so the story in the Indian Bible is of ten chaste young men.  It is probably a significant parable even in the changed version.