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“It is to be hoped that Professor Cory will work out his theory in more detail in its relation to the labor union movement. He sometimes gives the impression of a man seeing it through a golden haze. In avoiding the cocksure pedantry of the typical college professor he has now and then fallen into an uncritical acceptance of unprofessional things.” W: E. Bohn
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COSTER, CHARLES THEODORE HENRI DE. Flemish legends. il *$3 Stokes 398.2
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These legends, translated from the French by Harold Taylor and supplied with eight woodcuts by Albert Delstanche, are taken from the folk-lore current in the middle ages in Brabant and Flanders. The translator’s note contains a brief survey of De Coster’s career as a writer. The first tale of “The brotherhood of the cheerful countenance,” tells how the inn-keeper Pieter Gans, of Uccle, was tempted by the devil to set up the image of Bacchus in his hall and form the above brotherhood, whereupon there were nightly carousings by the male population of Uccle; and how, therefore, it fell to the lot of the women of Uccle, to form themselves into an archery club, under the protection of the Virgin Mary, and save the city from brigands. The other tales are: The three sisters; Sir Halewyn; Smetse Smee.
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“They are Rabelaisian in form but without the coarseness and rollicking humor of the great French satirist. There is much of somber beauty in the stories, but also much of the blood-lust of the period.”
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