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His certificate of Grimm's "integrity" rests on very slender grounds, and the Memoirs of Madame d'Épinay are subjected to no such scrutiny as the circumstances of their composition and preservation call for, before their statements can be accepted as authority. But whatever minor defects may be found in the book, the general spirit and execution are admirable.
The Latin compact is at an end; you merely invite death here. Now, go!" Her eyes were searching the listless face with entreaty in them; the slender fingers were fiercely gripping one of Mr. Grimm's nerveless hands. For an instant some strange, softening light flickered in the young man's eyes, then it passed. "I have no choice, Miss Thorne," he said gravely at last.
Mademoiselle Arnould foresaw it the first day, and exclaimed, "It is a production that will fail fifty nights successively." There was as crowded an audience on the seventy-second night as on the first. The following is extracted from Grimm's 'Correspondence.
This coincides with Grimm's statement that the total sum received by Diderot was sixty thousand livres, or about two thousand six hundred pounds sterling. And to think, cried Voltaire, when he heard of Diderot's humble wage, that an army contractor makes twenty thousand livres a day!
'Grimm's Fairy Tales' was the favorite of both boys and girls and through the summer I told every story in the book. The boys also liked 'The Merrie Adventures of Robin Hood, 'The Three Golden Apples, 'The Golden Touch, 'The Golden Fleece, and all the old Indian legends. While the girls, if offered a choice, always called for a fairy tale with a Prince Charming in it.
He grew more rational as they walked home, but talked and argued all the way with that semi-hysterical garrulity which was so painful to his hearers. They found Vernon sitting up in bed, reading 'Grimm's Goblins, and in very high spirits. A most wonderful event had happened. Cheap Jack had been to see him. He came with Mr. Fosbroke at twelve o'clock. He had overtaken Mr.
We had a few other fairy stories, I later identified them with stories of Grimm's or of Andersen's, but for the most part the tales we told were sombre and unimaginative; tales our nurses used to tell to frighten us into good behavior. Sometimes we spent a whole afternoon in dancing.
Mademoiselle Arnould foresaw it the first day, and exclaimed, "It is a production that will fail fifty nights successively." There was as crowded an audience on the seventy-second night as on the first. The following is extracted from Grimm's 'Correspondence.
The settings seemed flimsy, the lighting commonplace. She watched Guy Pollock stammer and twist his mustache when he should have been a bullying magnate; Vida Sherwin, as Grimm's timid wife, chatter at the audience as though they were her class in high-school English; Juanita, in the leading role, defy Mr.
There is little doubt that Njörd was once a God of higher importance than he is in the Edda, where he is overshadowed by his son. Grimm's suggestion that he and the goddess Nerthus, mentioned by Tacitus, were brother and sister, is supported by the line in Lokasenna; it is an isolated reference, and the Goddess has left no other traces in Scandinavian mythology.
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