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...He contrasts as crudely with the simplicity of nature as some old-fashioned New York parlor in its crimson silks and carved rosewoods looking out upon a lovely mountain in the Catskills...

...She neither recollected nor collected her poems, and had to wait for four years after her death before Mrs...

...In a measure, they were happy under a patriarchal rule they understood, and under evils of their own making...

...In the United States, where all possible safeguards have been erected against recurrence of the political poisoning of religion, there is room for the evolution of those stifled principles of international intercourse for which the weak of the world have longed since force began to rule it...

...Local government was farmed to the nobles, who having paid well for office must exact threefold revenue from the governed: ioo percent plus usurious interest to Japanese banks furnishing the initial outlay...

...possibly because it is not easy for a chemist to grasp the significance of the evidence for a vitalistic solution which comes from, experimental embryology and the numerous and striking facts of regeneration...

...3.75...

...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...

...A careful study of the poem with which he won his first spurs— the Ballad of the Goodly Fere—reveals a rather mediocre success: in older days it was considered a striking performance...

...My soul is sick with horror, my life is drenched with care, Morphine I have for portion and I have, for bride, despair...

...Perhaps the modernist, gazing at his own image in his internal mirror, and thanking such God as he has left to himself that as far as brains and education are concerned he is not as other men, might meditate on this little fable and see whether it has any bearing on his case...

...The tale of two great political rivals, however, does not suffer thereby, for Mr...

...The Poetry of Nonsense, by Emile Cammaerts...

...Even the late Amy Lowell declared: "Bless you, I would somersault all day if by so doing I might stay with her...

...Christianity, when unmenaced, is no enemy to culture...

...They had a king, a noble caste, and a general "people...

...every student of history will find them most advantageous...

...The discovery and early settlement of the continent, the life of the Indian, the growth of government—all are treated with a good sense of perspective...

...New York: Alfred A. Knopf...

...King Coal" is the subject of an informative and breezy chapter, which tells about all anyone could reasonably care to know about bituminous products...

...What an open window upon her little garden is this volume of her Complete Poems with: "The simple news that nature told, With tender majesty Her message is committed To hands I cannot see: For love of her, sweet countrymen, Judge tenderly of me...

...The article by the editor, on Mechanistic Biology, is disappointing, for the whole treatment of this important subject is very inadequate...

...Be all that as it may (we are accustomed to it by this time) the illustrations are valuable...

...It may be said for him that he is too individualistic to make a good translator, and these scraps from Italian and Provenqal must be regarded as Pound's own work and not the repetends of the early writers...

...People and land belonged to the king...

...All Ezra Pound's poems up to date are here presented for a critical reconsideration, and to say the truth the task is a rather sad disappointment after all the pose, the assertion and pretense of the poet...

...A MERE glance at the prospectus of the great attempt sponsored by Yale University to tell the story of the United States in a manner agreeable to all varieties of readers, proves the wealth of the material and the pains that have been expended to deal with this material adequately...

...Aside from the clear delineation of personal aims and ends, of victory and defeat, one of the most interesting things to trace throughout the book is the expansion of that great imperialistic ideal which has so signally paled since the end of the world war...

...intrigue and rebellion were fomented not infrequently by foreign powers whose interest it was to prove to the world how greatly Korea needed a guiding hand...

...or "The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee...

...THE high standard of perfection brought to English nonsense poetry in the work of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll has induced the Belgian writer, Emile Cammaerts, long a resident in England, to prepare a little study on the character and merits of this form of light literature...

...There is a story of the late Father James Healy, of Little Bray, near Dublin, which rises to the mind...

...practically, it was limited by the personality of the sovereign and by the demands (oftentimes unreasonable, arbitrary, and exorbitant) of foreign governments or of diplomats accredited to his court, upon their own responsibility...

...More careful examination of the separate volumes completes the demonstration...

...Whatever the reader may hope to find in recurrent pages of analysis expended upon the souls—or psychic processes—of the leading characters, dramatic intensity is not included in the menu...

...It is probably because the physicist must often diverge into metaphysics—a branch ignored and at times decried by too many biologists...

...T N OLD days it was considered an act of critical piety to A descend to the shores of Lethe and reverently gather up the disjecta membra poetae, the flotsam and jetsam scattered on the tide passing into the great mains of time...

...Laudin, a lawyer who specializes in divorce cases and comes to see a great deal of vulgar human nature rendered muddy and turbulent by sexual chaos, is little more than an automaton upon whom Wassermann expends his accumulated store of acquired psychological knowledge...

...or, in a last fine climax: "The spider as an artist Has never been employed Though his surpassing merit Is freely certified By every broom and Bridget Throughout a Christian land...

...Oil, electricity and steam are dealt with adequately, and the men who developed them form the themes of numerous sketches...

...No," I replied (and lost myself the job) "no more than you can, for figures show only part of what is, and never what isn't...

...Yet, Koreans feared our utilitarian western life...

...That is the Dean's opinion, and he says very truly that "the Reformation has not only checked but obscured the scientific progress which had begun in the century which preceded it...

...there is quite possibly, however, a dignified, practical, and effective theory and method to be set up on Christian principles, which in the centuries of struggle between Christianity and European barbarism has never prevailed, has even been tainted by unchristian practices...

...Wedlock, by Joseph Wassermann...

...There is recollection and calmness in this poetry that is yet not peace...

...Had he done anything else he could not very well have written his book, for his object is to show only how Korea is governed today...

...The real quality of the book is derivative from the strange, oriental country of the Montezumas, where even the American business temperament is derouted by the call of blood and money...

...He says further: "It was not Catholicism or Protestantism, but the state of war between them, which had this evil consequence [of setting back science...

...New Haven: Yale University Press...

...The Patriot Novelist of Poland: Henryk Sienkiewicz, by Monica M. Gardner...

...By comparison the contour of the actual narrative is irregular and only slightly impressive...

...3.00...

...Written in loose but pleasant fifteenth-century English, the poem relates the chief legends concerning the Saint...

...Hans Christian Andersen had, as is well known, no real knowledge of himself...

...Malinowski, on Science, Magic, and Religion, wherein the writer's information gained through a long sojourn in the Pacific Islands is used to great advantage...

...Catholic builders have every reason to read the chapter on church construction carefully...

...The southerner is light-hearted and does not wear that sombre cloak of gloom which legend allots to the Dean, but no person not completely oblivious to truth or ignorant of facts, will urge that he is, therefore, less in earnest than the gloomiest-browed Puritan of them all...

...Hergesheimer's latest novel is an interesting demonstration...

...What an orgy of lovely quotations in: "The bee is not afraid of me, I know the butterfly...

...But perhaps it would be more representative to turn to these comments upon French words: "To say a French word in the middle of an English sentence exactly as it would be said by a Frenchman in a French sentence is a feat demanding an acrobatic mouth...

...translated by Ludvrig Lewnsohn...

...MlSS GARDNER'S careful study of a great novelist and romancer is neither a biography nor a critical analysis...

...But there is much more and the complete work merits recognition...

...Fowler is a champion of principles in what would be a Johnsonian manner were it not so piquant...

...All that is necessary is a polite acknowledgment of indebtedness to the French language indicated by some approach in some part of the word to the foreign sound, and even this only when the difference between the foreign and the corresponding English sound is too marked to escape a dull ear...

...SAINT RADEGONDE, the patron of Poitiers where her shrine still attracts thousands, became popular with English petitioners during the reign of the Plantagenets...

...There is a concluding summary of which more must be said, and there are the intervening articles...

...Cammaerts distinguishes clearly between the witty and humorous and the truly nonsensical...

...The supplement of Mrs...

...We are told by his friends that we must excuse what, after all, "is only pretty Fanny's way...

...the greater its success as a tour de force, the greater its failure as a step in the conversational progress, for your collocutor, aware that he could not have done it himself, has his attention 444 distracted whether he admires or is humiliated...

...Of the other articles, mostly concerned with religion, not much need be said, except that it is curious how the modernist mind turns constantly to the idea that it is the only instructed consciousness existing in the religious world...

...Later additions to the original manuscript, made by the story-teller at various times during his old age, have not been included for reasons which seem commendable...

...the sigh that is but an echo of a great wail of grief sounding out of eternities...

...There is an introduction by Lord Balfour which contains a good deal that is interesting, and one thing that is surprising—namely, that a man of so much erudition can quote Draper's Conflict of Religion and Science without a word to indicate the extreme inaccuracy—to put the thing moderately—of that work...

...Every old New England stick-in-the-mud gets his or her halo, but there is no mention of Kate Chopin, Father Tabb, or George Sterling...

...As he goes on he discovers, however, not only a seemingly unending fund of reliable lore, but also a quaint and masculine philosophy which constantly makes its point without flinching...

...And they still blaze with the light of her spirit and still strike home at the hearts of readers of every class, particularly magazine poets who use her methods and borrow her moods with amazingly successful results...

...New York: George H. Doran Company...

...It rambles on through a neat and attractive arrangement, giving its dictional recipes with all the alluring savor of an excellent cook-book, and pouncing savagely upon errors with the crusading consciousness of a man forsworn to a good cause and familiar with every inch of the terrain...

...The Lyfe of Saynt Radegunde, edited by F. Brittain...

...When, four years before the Russo-Japanese War, I was invited to become chief adviser to the Emperor of Korea, that nation was independent only in name...

...As to the conclusion by Dean Inge, we agree with him in one particular—that concerning the Reformation, since had it not been that the Church and Protestantism were locked in deadly conflict, and that at the time, in the strength of its youth, the latter was a lustier fighter than in these days of its decadence, there never would have been any conflict between religion and science...

...BRIEFER MENTION The True Story of My Life, by Hans Christian Andersen...

...Disraeli and Gladstonej by D. C. Somervell...

...Let all romantic or satiric souls, given to curse the land of Lincoln, beware of entering here...

...From one of these, the property of the Jesus College Library, Mr...

...The problem of backward nations, of raw materials, of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, had not been worked out...

...but as soon as war is declared, every nation or institution must subordinate all other considerations to the necessity of victory...

...Nor was it primarily for Korea's happiness that Korea was annexed...

...New York: Boni and Liveright...

...Today death seems to come too slowly to many of our premature immortals and the publishers' shelves are bulging heavily with the collected and selected poetry of young men and women who may still be seen dancing the light fantastic in the early afternoons of a day that is far from an end...

...Unfortunately, the novel cannot fail to disappoint those who have on previous occasions admired the popular German novelist's Hebraic insight and creative power...

...of China, Russia, and Japan...

...Fowler's book, thank heaven, is neither of these...

...Cambridge, England: The Cambridge University Press...

...But it is surely time that pretty Fanny learned that inaccuracy and offensiveness are poor weapons in argument...

...It is curious that no one but the Dean should have heard of this denunciation...

...5.00...

...Mr...

...Ireland cites cases "to expose the fallacy of basing either an imperialist or a nationalist policy upon a principle of abstract right" and in his book purposes "to examine Japanese rule in Korea as a concrete example of colonial administration, without reference to the legal or moral sanctions upon which it rests...

...Volume eleven, written by Stanley Thomas Williams, is richly pictorial, covers a great deal of ground, and is generally trustworthy...

...he does not contrast it with the past, nor can statistics show whether Koreans are happier and better off, consciously or unconsciously, as part of the Japanese empire than they were thirty years ago as an "independent" people...

...Of these, that by Professor Eddington, on The Domain of Physical Science, is easily the best, and once more causes the reader to ask himself how it is that physicists write so much more clearly and satisfyingly on matters such as those dealt with in this book than professors of other branches of science...

...but that apparently is what the Dean does in his contest with the enemy, Rome...

...Neglected son of genius, I take thee by the hand...

...Do not trouble yourself, my child," said the holy man, "that is not a sin...

...Happiness," too, and "independence" are vague terms...

...Mr...

...A king might be vassal to an emperor, but an emperor must (poor man...

...It has the disadvantage that you can find it, if you want to know more about it, neither in French dictionaries nor in English, and must be content to associate it vaguely with Flaubert...

...THERE never was a time when so many muddy rivulets A trickled into the "well of pure English...

...Nor does he take into account that one may belong to neither the nationalist nor the imperialist school as generally under443 stood...

...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...

...Of course, this does not at all apply to Emily Dickinson, who is already in eternity (Peace to her sweet soul...

...1.75...

...A great deal might be written concerning the Wassermann theory of idealism...

...Pound would be sorry for us in this judgment, and, we may say, we are sorry for him...

...it is a feat that should not be attempted...

...Regarding the statement that the Church has recently denounced evolution, it may be said that this will be news to Canon de Dorlodot, Father Wasmann, and many another writer...

...The reader might think, at first sight, that he was confronting a miniature dictionary, because the order is alphabetical and the topics are indicated by words...

...If, by some extraordinary concession, the name of Orestes Brownson was suffered to intrude, it was, to say the least, unkind to refer to him in the index as "Browning...

...His self-portrait is posed for in a way which is sometimes so evident that it becomes painful...

...Korea was annexed as were the Philippine Islands, with more compelling reason for the presence of Japanese armies in Korea than for the presence of American armies at Manila...

...Sometimes she essays a comment, and usually manages so well that one wishes she had been slightly less modest and impersonal...

...Her name was given to several churches and abbeys...

...Lear was the originator of the Limerick form of verse which in modern literature has outstripped the sonnet, and even the rondeau-redouble, in general popularity...

...In a way, Ezra Pound has established himself in a kinship with Edgar Saltus that is brought out clearly in his collected poems published under the old title of Personae...

...Loomis and Thomas W. Higginson published her poems in 1890...

...or "Say, sea, take me...

...ioo percent of normal taxation for the support of the government...

...It must curtail liberty of action, speech, and thought...

...Somervell gives it that quality of tension a dramatically told story of two careers which inter-connect and conflict will have...

...New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation...

...It appears that her life was made the subject of a rhyming chronicle, only two copies of which are known to have been preserved...

...In both cases, permanent occupation more or less disguised followed the presence of armies sent for the expulsion of an enemy who was alien also to the people whose lands were occupied...

...We hear that the book is being adopted at various American colleges, and the other day a smartly dressed youth was seen reading it on the train...

...They did not understand it, did not want it...

...The Victorian age in retrospect, in accordance with the axiom that the people of one century always dislike the century immediately preceding, has not yet become sufficiently mellowed to take on glamour...

...The book can therefore be read with interest in the same way as one reads the maxims of Joubert or the Book of Proverbs—a claim which may amaze those familiar with various "rhetorics" and "grammars," but which can easily be substantiated...

...A wealth of pertinent cartoons, sketches, drawings, and maps tell the story consecutively and make it live...

...3/6d...

...The cynicism of European—and of American—diplomacy was a bitter draught...

...He enters into all aspects of building, and his terse, illuminating remarks are illustrated lavishly...

...We are told that educated members of the Christian church (modernists) believe —or more generally disbelieve—this, that, and the other...

...Laudin discovers that far from being able to solve the problems of others, he himself is an unfathomable spectacle for the understanding of which years would be required...

...With that we may agree, yet not with his further statement that Christianity must devise a fighting propaganda with a cynical disregard for truth...

...Poets were thus collected at their death and fame affirmed or denied in a sort of last judgment...

...Unfortunately, the author mixes his tenses and caricatures his conclusions...

...In fact, the matter has come to such a pass that it is quite customary to commend linguistic heterodoxy, in entire forgetfulness of the fact that speech can perform the business of thinking only if it be as keen as Toledo steel...

...The penitent replied that when she looked in her mirror, she could not help thinking that she was a very pretty girl...

...Their ultimate absorption into one of the three neighboring empires was inevitable, and only the enthusiasm of youth could keep alive in an adviser to the emperor the hope of an international agreement to neutralize Korea, under the guidance of a group of men unconcerned in the European struggle...

...Saltus tries to make out in her funereal tribute of a collection of his poems...

...Hamlin's treatment is sane and fair, and the format of the volume entrusted to his care is one of the most impressive in the series...

...yet Disraeli's spirit won out in the end, though he died before his opponent...

...Brittain has transcribed the version used in the present attractive little edition...

...But his story was really so interesting, dramatic and unusual that it is worth reading for its own sake, even in our time...

...Throughout the book Mr...

...Ireland says: "In the field of international policy, the Japanese annexation of Korea is perfectly suited to serve as a demarcating issue between the two schools of political conviction—the imperialist and the nationalist—and according to whether the reader belongs to one or the other of these schools, so will he convince himself that Japan has the 'right' to rule Korea, or that the Koreans have a 'right' to independent nationhood...

...As a poet of introspective mood, A. E. (George Russell) has wisely refrained from more than a slight revision of such poems as he has not entirely omitted in his Collected Poems...

...Fowler's linguistic learning, one might turn to the remarks about "ae, ce," in which the conclusion is reached that these ligatures ought to be abandoned...

...It describes the epic of the soil—the clearing of the wilderness, life on the farms of yore, the growing supremacy of great crops like cotton, and the coming of machinery...

...In his struggle for existence the king had declared himself equal in rank with the three emperors whom he feared...

...Tampko, by Joseph Hergesheimer...

...The idea that her author wrote something like a patriotic symphony guides her work, and we are made to see the motif of sacrificial citizenship as constantly recurrent...

...Ezra Pound is the glaring expatriot of our time: although the British Who's Who gives the date of his birth it is silent regarding his American birthplace or college...

...The daggers, shawls, foliage, hot nights and mean intrigues of Mexico are worked for all they are worth...

...The bibelot is carefully edited...

...Thomas Walsh...

...IF STATISTICS in orderly array are evidence of happiness, the new Korea, according to Alleyne Ireland, has left very far behind its old unhappy far-off days...

...it may be suggested that some people can actually be happier in a state of primitive untidiness and disorder than they are under the stern eye of the uplifter...

...But now, with an independent Ireland, the great overseas dominions placing their own interests before those of the mother country, the East grown racially conscious, the "recessional" of British imperialism has sounded...

...William Franklin Sands...

...Saltus's own poems strikes me as being a rather unnecessary intrusion in Poppies and Mandragora...

...There is reason to believe that in the United States conditions approach more nearly than anywhere in the world a favorable opportunity to clarify these abstractions and to formulate and practise a definite policy in advance of traditional utilitarian diplomacy...

...The New Korea, by Alleyne Ireland...

...However imperfect they seemed, I did not feel," he writes in his foreword, "that I could in after hours melt and remold and make perfect the form, if I was unable to do so in the intensity of conception, when I was in those heavens we breathe for a moment and then find they are not for our clay...

...442 Science, Religion, and Reality, edited by Joseph Needham...

...New York: The Macmillan Company...

...In my youth, I was once asked by the head of a very great corporation who thought he could use me, if I could read a balance sheet and get an accurate picture of the company concerned...

...they were nomads settled in houses and cities, still redolent of scriptural nomadic life...

...be the equal of emperors...

...Personae: Collected Poems of Ezra Pound...

...That we hope Catholicity will never do...

...the muscles have to be suddenly adjusted to a performance of a different nature, and after it is suddenly recalled to the normal state...

...Generally speaking, the pictures alone would make The Pageant of America a valuable possession...

...There is art, an art of poetry in these verses of a fine prose writer: but it seemed that Edgar Saltus was merely dancing before learning to walk gracefully in his prose...

...ioo percent to the pocket of the governor or magistrate to make the cares of office worth his while...

...xr Bertram C A. Windle...

...Though portions of the narrative reveal some British bias, the treatment is on the whole satisfactorily objective...

...It is a mistake...

...A balance sheet without knowledge of the men and machinery concerned shows nothing at all, in spite of statistics...

...The text is well organized and attractive, but the illustrations are a positive joy...

...The mot juste," he declares spicily in one place, "is a pet literary critic's word, which readers would like to buy of them as one buys one's neighbor's bantam cock for the sake of hearing its voice no more...

...Figures do not show all that is, and nothing at all of what isn't...

...Those who wish to get the meat of Sienkiewicz without reading his books could find no better guide than this comely volume...

...Volume one, compiled by three writers, chronicles Adventures in the Wilderness with a great deal of charm...

...Brittain supplies a scholarly introduction in which he suggests that the author may have been Henry Bradshaw, a Benedictine poet who died in 1513...

...It remains to say that Wedlock is sufficiently frank to safeguard it from being taken for a juvenile...

...Nor is one fascinated by a certain pied diction which, though distinctly superior to much current writing is, after all, too facile to be more than a mannerism...

...Our author is even more helpful, however, and appends to this general statement a series of wise regulations...

...What a relief it is to read these sane and comforting words...

...the United States could not possibly be seriously menaced from Manila...

...today it rests largely upon economic grounds...

...And this vivid chronicle of England's political past, from 1804 to 1898, developed around the "duo-biographical" personalities of Disraeli and Gladstone, gains heightened interest by comparison with the actualities of the present day...

...Statistics can only show that in serving their own vital interests the Japanese have also accepted a trust and are concerned in making captivity humane and tolerable to those Koreans who still prefer to be Koreans, while they turn the rising generations into loyal Japanese...

...Volume four, written by Malcolm Keir, relates the epic of industry...

...It is one problem that stands out consistently from all history...

...Accordingly, he is interested in nothing at all...

...Though one or the other episode in 445 the book is interesting and illuminating in a kind of shadowy way, the central narrative itself meanders in the periphery of problems for which the solution offered is far from a convincing one...

...Here the illustrations, drawn from the most varied sources, are excellent...

...Theoretically, his power was absolute...

...OF THE truth that when religion is abstracted from life only sexual instinct and intellectual ambition remain, Mr...

...Frederick H. Martens...

...That superiority of knowledge which is as offensive as is superiority based on wealth has carried Ezra Pound into byways of song, where his assertive personality awakens echoes that reverberate all too discordantly...

...Volume thirteen, written by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, has a very interesting theme in the history of American architecture...

...Volume three, for instance, is a study of Toilers by Land and Sea, written by the general editor himself...

...Disorder, discontent were rife...

...In caution we are bound to know and to deal with utilitarianism...

...THE twenty-sixth volume in the excellently printed and edited series of Scandinavian Classics is Mary Howitt's translation of Andersen's autobiography...

...Consulted by a young woman who feared that she was incurring the sin of vanity, he asked why that thought had occurred to her...

...When this is properly disposed of, he remains one of the greatest singers that Erin, in her poetry and culture, has produced in our generation...

...Lita Seamon...

...Paul Crowley...

...Justification of occupation followed on the humanitarian ground of uplift and education...

...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...

...As an illustration of Mr...

...But what is the use of continuing to illustrate ? The book is so truly a storehouse of first-class information about the English language as we use it today, and so fearless and reasonable a critic of literary malpractice, that it is sure to be thumbed diligently everywhere...

...The historical background is well presented, though a critic of social conditions might like to venture a few interpolations...

...In general outlook upon modern life Koreans had hardly advanced beyond the time of Abraham...

...As to the adjustment of science and religion, it conforms to the lines of modernism, and resembles that celebrated picnic of the young lady of Riga, whose part is here enacted by religion...

...THE author's "duo-biographical sketch" is, in a sense, a variant of Plutarch's method in his famous parallel Lives, save that in the parallel study of the two English statesmen Greek meets Greek instead of a Greek being weighed in the balance with a Roman...

...New York: Boni and Liveright...

...After discussing lumbering and meat-packing, the author proceeds to outline the story of organized labor...

...Every workingman would enjoy and profit by them...

...He completes the diagnosis of his own troubles in his title poem: "My soul is full of linnets, my life is filled with light, For home, I have a mirage of a garden of delight...

...It is true that Disraeli was fundamentally an imperialist and Gladstone an internationalist...

...By contrast with the best pages of Bourget (almost the only modern writer to make psychological dissection intensely interesting) the offerings of Mr...

...The hero, a middle-aged man involved in certain broils that surround oil interests in Mexico, feels that he is too old for love and too rich to care about ambitions...

...Most of the lovely old things are here reprinted: in the exquisite verses In Connemara, Momentary, Refuge, and the profound clairvoyance of the lines To Padraic Colum, A. E. has seized hold of the prime Celtic spirit: that primeval illusion that has the cold stone of fact behind it...

...Probably, in spite of the realist school which embraces both nationalists and imperialists, there are truly rights involved...

...If there was poet in him, it succumbed to the pestilent art theories of his group, some of whom in whitened beards still walk ghostily among us...

...2.50...

...THIS volume of essays by various writers, and thus necessarily of differing values, is of a kind with which we are now growing familiar...

...That is a fine instance of the kind of flippant falsehood to which this writer is addicted when dealing with the Church which he so greatly dislikes...

...A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, by H. W. Fowler...

...It hovers somewhere between the two, and contents itself largely with recounting the narratives of Sienkiewicz...

...There is little or no song in this work: his mind, in a peculiar obliquity of self-consciousness, distorts the vision as it disrupts the harmonies...

...or "Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate...

...hostile occupation of Korea was life or death to Japan...

...It was the era of concessions, spheres of influence, and partition of living nations...

...Unfortunately, most treatises written to correct the evil have been either dusty little compilations of errors, or rather florid school-boy discourses based on Latin grammar...

...5-00...

...It may certainly be questioned whether Korea was ever independent within accurate historical knowledge...

...This essay is worth careful consideration, as is that by Dr...

...Francis Saltus was a poet of some distinction, and it is plausible information to hear that his brother Edgar felt "the underlying inspiration" of his work...

...Why, then, should one refuse to be optimistic about the rising generation ? George n gHUSTER> The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States, edited by Ralph Henry Gabriel...

...Poppies and Mandragora—they undoubtedly grew in Emily Dickinson's garden—what a different use they came to in the hands of an Edgar Saltus: a fine stylist, a man of superficial learning, poisoned early in life by a philosophy macabre, and not profound as Mrs...

...New York: The Oxford University Press...

...Collected Poems, by A. E. New York: The Macmillan Company...

...To what extent the Hergesheimer art is dependent upon use of what drama there lies in contrasted colors was never more evident...

...No book offers a better description of what literary life was like in Denmark during the middle years of the nineteenth century, and few relate so many entertaining anecdotes about Scandinavian celebrities...

...The term reality only has a single reference in the index, and is but little insisted on throughout the book...

...Japan's problem in Korea, and Korean reaction to its solution would be a very pretty study for Americans, for in the process one would be led insensibly to fairly definite conclusions with regard to similar peoples north of the Panama Canal...

...The Nirvana of the poet is not the complete self-obliteration of the Hindu: he remains a Christian of Mithraic sort, and his peculiar religiosity does not resemble what we apprehend as ancient Celtic quality...

...2.50...

...Here is one example: "In southern Europe, especially, religion is largely a social diversion, a spectacular performance, an artistic enjoyment...

...Here it need only be said that Wedlock proposes a kind of sublimated eras, whose refuge is the simplicity of a life close to nature...

...Hergesheimer are limp and tepid...

...2.50...

...Lewisohn's translation of Wassermann's Laudin und die Seinen is excellent English prose, distinguished for verve, restraint, and colorfulness...

...Those rights have not yet been defined by nations in any manner compelling upon society...