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Lifelong Friend: There is always the chance, too, that some of the things you find out in these pages may inspire you with a lifelong passion to apply your knowledge in an area which really interests you. My friend Patrick Moore, the astronomer, who first suggested we publish this Library and wrote much of the astronomy section in our volume on Science and The Universe, once told me that he became an astronomer through the thrill he experienced on first reading an encyclopaedia of astronomy called The Splendour of the Heavens, published when he was a boy. Revelation is the reward of encyclopaedists. Our job, my job, is to remind you always that the joy of knowledge knows no boundaries and can work miracles.
After some brief experience in acting, Miss Gonne joined the Young Irish Theatre movement started by Yeats and became a lifelong friend and source of inspiration to him. The heroine of his play The Countess Cathleen (1892) was modeled after her, as were the heroines of many of his poems. But she refused his many offers of marriage and instead, in 1903, entered into a shortlived marriage with Maj. John MacBride. Their son, Sean MacBride, became Irish foreign minister. Her autobiography, A Servant of the Queen, was published in 1938, and another book, Scattering Branches, in 1940. She died in Dublin on April 27, 1953.
John Milton Hay was born in Salem, Ind., on 8, 1838, the son of a country doctor. He eived his early education in local schools in Binois. While attending a private academy in tsfield, he met John George Nicolay, who be-ne a lifelong friend. Hay attended Illinois ate University in Springfield briefly, and on t. 7, 1855, entered Brown University, gradu-in three years. In the spring of 1859 he the study of law in his uncle's office in r'ringfield, next door to the firm of Lincoln and lerndon. There he resumed his friendship with olay, who was already a political follower of ham Lincoln. Hay was admitted to the Illinois bar on Feb. 1861. |
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