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...impossible when reading the works of the German romantic poets, and particularly of those who are usually called the minor poets, to escape this deep, depressing gloom which overshadowed their lives. Perhaps it was because they were almost great geniuses and the "almost" weighed too heavily upon them, imbued as they were with the subjective psychology of the movement in which they lived. Certainly they are not very pleasant reading, but they exercised an influence which affected the whole movement of at least German literature up to Richard Wagner...
...looked down in deep disgust...
...boomed a deep voice, "Mille fois non!" Good "Papa" Joffre was on his feet, earnest, concerned over the definition of mémoire. "It does not apply to human beings only," he cried. "I had an English dog called Bobby during the early days of the War. He was almost human. He died in the swamps of La Pompelle in 1917, of influenza. He always remembered and acted strangely several hours in advance of an attack when he had heard me give the order, perhaps days before. Is that memory or intelligence? Is that soul or instinct? Mes amis...
...COULD STAND UP-Ford Madox Ford-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Author Ford's three-volume metaphor for what the War did to the presumable core of England is herewith completed. There are deep scars, wrought by much cleaving to duty. The scene is littered with social and personal wreckage. But the core survives...
...lovely evening we pulled into Nelta, and beheld that wonderful trick of nature which the French call la grande corbeille. It is a little gem of an oasis, set deep down in a ring of enormous sand dunes, with masses of feathery date palms swaying above the cool waters of the spring. With a sigh of relief, we plunged down the slopes into the cool, jasmine-scented air to make our last camp...