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...volumes tell the story of the rivalry between his grandson, Niou, and his reputed son, Kaoru. Occidental readers may be disappointed in the inconclusive end-"the story fades out like a Chinese landscape-roll. The Bridge of Dreams leads nowhere-breaks off like the tattered edge of a cloud." But there is no doubt, says Translator Waley. that Lady Murasaki wrote it like that: The Tale of Genji is finished...
Other volumes (in order) : The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, The Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers, The Lady of the Boat (TIME...
While Governor Cross sought, perhaps, deliberately, to cloud an issue already difficult for youthful comprehension, Mr. Donal M. Sullivan, the Senior Class orator, brought an aggressive faith to bear on the recuperative powers of the party system. The emotional appeal of his bitter reference to the generation which had taught his own to "worship the golden calf" was well calculated to stir interest in his constructive program. But although he went further than Governor Cross, Mr. Sullivan, too, preferred not to look behind the cars of today's order...
...that instant there was a deafening explosion. The roof and walls of the celluloid factory burst open in a cloud of fire. A hail of bricks pelted the street. Long streamers of flame whipped out of the shattered roof and flapped at the sky. A shower of burning celluloid, floating down in blazing strips and flakes, fell on the screaming mob of men, women and children for a quarter of a mile around. Those who had not been knocked senseless by the impact of the explosion, surged in terror to the river bank, plunged into the water to quench their...
Last January Australians watched the first two of the old steel-hulled plugs sail off on the 15th race, reviving ghosts of the oldtime crack clippers, booming under sails like cumulus cloud banks. Until late April the others followed: 16 Finnish, two German, one Swedish, carrying a total of 900,000 bags of wheat. Some were so old that the sailors could not chip the hull for fear the chipping hammers would go clean through the plates. Built from 16 to 45 years ago, sailed on a capital representing scrap value, the ships were uninsured.† Their masters knew they...