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FOREWORDHE quest for American antiques is morethan a temporary craze. It is the awakeningof a permanent interest in the beautiful and the curious household arts of our own forebears; things which, therefore, have for us an intimate charm that no foreign products, however lovely, can ever quite...

FOREWORD CLEOPATRA, that curiously perverse fígure, that incarnation of fatal passión, what was she like? A combination of pride and frailty, adored and despised. Plutarch said that "Her charm entered into men's very souls," and Horace thanked the gods for delivering the earth from that

Introduction The life of marie curie contains prodigies in such number that one would like to tell her story like a legend. She was a woman; she belonged to an oppressed nation; she was poor; she was beautiful. A powerful vocation summoned her from her motherland, Poland, to study in Paris,...