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Today dinosaurs are the chief delight of museum habituees; tomorrow the horse will supersede them. Already there are the beginnings of a horse mythology; this famous horse who could pull an impossible number of tons without straining a muscle, that one who was fleeter than the wind. Black Beauty threatens to become an epic. And in the present month, Mr. Will James writes the history of Smoky, a horse, and is greeted by the enthusiastic applause of critics. It is well that the animal who worked unceasingly for hundreds of years should be sentimentalized, and, if possible, immortalized. Far less...
...There are approximately 300 pieces, pictures and sculpture, and each provides sufficient study and pleasure for all who can see and feel the message of the artist, to enthrall for hours. There is a surfeit of aesthetic delight in strolling around the lovely grounds, where marvelous bronzes and statues stand among the trees and on the terraces...
American plays are corrupting the English language in its native land according to Mr. C. B. Cochran, London theatrical producer. No longer is the Mayfair patois spoken in England; instead one hears "the language of Broadway". Titled ladies, grown weary of formalisms, delight in this latest vogue. And the new rich are cured of dropping their his only to affect a dialed peculiar to the characters created by Mr. Ring Laidner. There ought, says the patriotic producer...
Human beings take delight in any semblance of external unity. Chambers of Commerce, Rotary Clubs, Fraternal Organizations are convenient heads under which to submerge individual differences and man uses them to the full extent of their powers. Christians are no exception to this rule, and the ultimate hope of most christians is that some day there may be a universal church...
...some, "Lord Raingo" may appear a magnificent exposition of realism. But it is a case of homeopathic remedy administered in an allopathic dose. Mr. Bennett definitely crosses the line where realism merges into tautological flatulence. Elegence of style, felicity of phrase, restraint, suggestion these prerequisites to delight in reading, all are submerged in an ocean of microcosms, and uninteresting ones at that...