Last September we decided to have an orchestra. This was rather like having an idea and finding the bricks and mortar afterwards. Actually it was not bricks and mortar, but human beings, with whom we were concerned, and we felt that our ground plan would have to be fairly elastic to allow for their various idiosyncrasies. We had had a good deal of music in a passive way at Warlingham for some t...

Part of the Comparative Literature Commons Recommended Citation He, Zheng. "A revived life in a reviving culture: the Chinese reception of Byron in the short story magazine in 1924. 1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION No, he was not a god. He was a mortal, a mortal who was more fearsome and more adorable than a god. When he was alive, he was bathed in the violent waves of the secular world, his body awash...