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Last week's events were not directly connected with these expectations, but doubtless they were affected by them...
...record shows that she committed an act which many of us doubtless think involves moral turpitude, but an act is not a crime always and there is no presumption that this act was a crime. The Congress did not contemplate that the act, if a crime in this country, would be ground for exclusion. If that were so, every man who sold or manufactured liquor in other lands would be barred from the United States, for our courts have held that violation of our prohibition laws involves moral turpitude...
...Doubtless the picture of an official capitalizing his knowledge of government secrets is unpleasant, but the right of a government to have secrets in which its citizens do not share is even more questionable. Nations have too often been decoyed into war by misunderstanding when a correctly informed public opinion might have saved the day. Bismark's meddling with the Eme telegram and similar incidents are already sufficiently notorious. Yet diplomacy still continues to wrap itself in the shroud of secrecy which it acquired in the poison dagger atmosphere of the renaissance. But despite its occasional Machiavellian characteristics, state craft...
Leaving aside the defects of Mr. Merritt's power as a conjurer, the reader who is in search of an antidote to the present school of literary photography will doubtless enjoy "The Ship of Ish, tar." It is an adventurous glimpse at at a forgotten civilization which the author has convincingly re-created. There are to be sure, dull parts in the story, and at times the narrator loses himself and his reader in a labyrinth of suggestive but unintelligible passages. A glance at the jacket, however, is reassuring. There is no mention of subtle satire or of involved philosophical...
...miracles is definitely past and with it has gone the prestige of the wonder worker. On the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, four Indians, doubtless bona fide medicine men of the ancient type, failed to cure a cross-eyed...