Things Noted Here and There

Farewell to the distinguished Polish medievalist and political activist, Bronislaw Geremek, who died in an automobile accident yesterday near Miedzichowo, a village in western Poland. Hat tip.

"Campus Life in 1600," BibliOdyssey, 9 June, features 13 engravings or ink/wash drawings of life at the university 400 years ago – including what may be the earliest picture of a tennis match.

Munro Price reviews Susan Nagel's Marie-Thérèse: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter for the London Times, 13 July.

John Holbo asks"Why Did the Fathers of the American Revolution Hate America?" at Crooked Timber, 12 July; and Scott Eric Kaufman,"Thank god for avid reds!" The Edge of the American West, 12 July, reproduces and comments on marginalia in a library copy of Randolph Bourne's Untimely Papers (1919).

Tony Perrottet,"John Muir's Yosemite," Smithsonian, July, revisits the father of the modern American conservation movement and the national park that he defined.