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...knows it. Furthermore, the Bishop, having long since retired and being in fairly comfortable circumstances, cannot be materially injured by being condemned a heretic. Why, then, his vigorous lawsuit? The answer is simple. Bishop Brown is teasing the Protestant Episcopal Church. And he is doing it with the childish delight of eccentric genius. The annoying old heretic maintains that the Protestant Episcopal Church cannot define heresy until it has first defined orthodoxy. It cannot say: "That is Error," until it has first said: "This is Truth." In other words-the trick is a masterpiece of dialectical neatness-it is impossible...
...presidential accident ? there was scattered sur les grands boulevards the "Last Will and Testament of Alexandre Millerand." The enemies and friends of the ex-President could be distinguished at any café where the document was being read. The faces of the former were wreathed in fat grins of delight; while about the mouths of the latter played but furtive smiles...
...Significance. The only significance is: you will absolutely spoil this delightful bit of whimsy if you go looking for any. It is told with all the round-eyed solemnity of a child's tale, and it was never meant to be analyzed or explained. Where the substance of the same author's Lady into Fox (TIME, Apr. 14, 1923) was fantasy, this is satire, deft and charming. Only, if you make the fatal mistake of trying to find out what it means, you will prick the bubble. For it means nothing at all and is a delight for just that...
...Shelley by a Frenchman is more apparent than real. Shelley was preeminently a romantic idealist, and at romanticism and idealism the French have long been past masters. M. Maurois has made the past live with words succinct and decisive, sentences deep with comprehension, paragraphs full of irony and delight, chapters seething with critical observations; in all, a book that may well deserve to crown the host of Shelleyana...
Wind-torn, wave-worn, still I sing delight...