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History for Art's Sake
Rosenfeld, Paul | July 8, 1939 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Edinburgh," by Sacheverell Sitwell and Francis Bamford. Lightly but indelibly certain pages of this entertaining history of "the Paris of Scotland" bear the imprint of the mind of the master of literary artifice who is Sacheverell Sitwell. These characteristically subtle passages are the introduction with its sly glance in the direction of Auld Reekie's Princes Street and Scottish Military Museum; the bland pages devoted to the architecture of Adam and Play fair and the painting of Raeburn; such graceful accounts of curious consequences of Walter Scott's romanticization of Scotland as Fanny Elssler's ballet La Gypsy and the careers of the brothers Stolberg-Stuart.

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EDINBURGH (Book); SITWELL, Sacheverell; BAMFORD, Francis; MUSEUMS; EDINBURGH (Scotland); SCOTLAND
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