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...event, the discovery of an oasis of penciled opinion is a saving delight to the weary. Often, it may be simply an exchange of invective which gives a gratifying glow of superiority. Or it may be an amusing fatuity which is seriously set down as a sagacious contribution. All are refreshing and provide a much needed distraction. Artistic annotation is a not unpleasing addition to Widener's mass of material...
...which often is the abstract--if the does not effect intellectual probity and curiosity then it has failed. And the world suffers from the unhappiness of ill health, poverty, and an unsatisfactory sex life, the greatest evils in Mr. Russell's opinion, and those which prevent progress and destroy delight...
...what will seem to be an accidental drowning in a lonely lake. He loses his nerve at the last moment but the boat is overturned by accident and he lets the girl drown. Arrested, he goes though the interminable murder trial full of chicanery and sentiment which is the delight of the American press. He is convicted, and spends his last days trying to understand why he did it, trying to decide whether he was really guilty but finding no clear answer. A poor thing he lived, a poor thing he died...
...pedestal upon which his cultists have placed him with such genuflections and censoring of incense. He has written a great stupid opus. He has disastrously damaged what real claims to distinction he may once have had. And while we are not among those iconoclastic dervishes who are dancing with delight over his downfall, we passionately convinced that his future will not be as rosy as his present is and his past has been...
...hint of it. The tale is admirably told for a twelve-year old; it is the kind of children's story that grown-ups might take up covertly and read to the end, with an indulgent smile at the ingenuousness of the book and the foolishness of their own delight...