Arthur Newton

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“Even an extraordinary policeman seems a strange suitor for an operatic soprano. Does he sing?”
—Eric Taylor, and Leroux. Arthur Lubin. M. Villeneuve (Frank Puglia)

“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)