‘Jewels in Her Crown: Treasures from the Special Collections of Columbia’s Libraries’ commemorated the 250th anniversary of Columbia University. The exhibition of 250 items included books, manuscripts, archives, drawings, ephemera, musical scores and works of art.
Category: 2006-September Issue
2006-09
THE VICTORIAN BRANCH of the Society has a nice tradition of annual dinners and interesting after-dinner speakers. I am grateful to Richard Overell, the Victorian Editor, for providing the text of last year’s after-dinner speech by Anthony Marshall, the erudite proprietor of the well-known Alice’s Bookshop in Melbourne. His topic, as befits an after-dinner speech, is both unusual and entertaining. Mr Marshall has done impressive research on the mustache in literature—famous authors who had mustaches (most of them men), and well-known literary characters with mustaches.