"Even a p-ili'V-'iTi m enn't- arrest the flight of time," said a would-be funny man. "Oh, I don't know!" replied his friend. "Only this morning I saw a policeman enter a. side door nnd stop a few minutes!" Herr Gerhftrdt Hauptmann, the German poet, who was fifty on November lo last, hnd a, fire birthday present in tl'e shape of the Nobel Prize for Literature (£8000). His birthday was celebrated amid enthusiastic national rejoicings, says a telegram from Berlin. He was born at Sakbnmn, and studied at the universities of Jena and "Berlin. Early in 1&83 he travelled in Italy, and from that time onwards his pen poured out an unceasing streain of poesy of a high
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10680, 29 January 1913, Page 5
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117Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Star (Christchurch), Issue 10680, 29 January 1913, Page 5
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