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...weapons of that spiritual war fill the rest of the volume?nine armories of selections?the collected best of his work. A collected edition is often apt to prove either an unfortunately top-heavy monument or a comfortable wheel-chair for a dying reputation. This is neither. Doubtless the work is uneven ? some of the branches on the tree are dead and others stunted ? of what collected works could that not be said ? But, on the whole, the volume displays a force and beauty truly of our own blood and earth, no longer merely in promise...
Many stories are in circulation about the ex-Premier, some of which are doubtless untrue. It is said that he wished to accompany King Boris to the United States to find him an American queen. Another report has it that he wished to make King Boris abdicate so that he could become King of Bulgaria. The greatest value of these yarns, as they probably are, is that they faithfully portray the character of the man. He was in the habit of speaking with almost brutal directness, i. e., his warning to King Ferdinand in September, 1915: " If you plunge this...
...Doubtless such extromes of casuistry will seem absurd not only to foreign nations but to a large number of Americans. But the absurdity lies not in Mr. Mellon's ruling, it lies in the wording of the prohibition laws. However much power fanatical Drys may believe our government to have over the rest of the world, the makers of the law had no swollen imaginations. They merely lacked foresight. The new ruling is at best a make-shift and it can be expected that at the next meeting of Congress the cause of the absurdity will be properly remedied...
...institution. There is a clear tendency in that direction at present. The difficulties of President Atwood at Clark University (TIME, June 11), are due perhaps as much to opposition to the specialization of that institution as to hostility to Dr. Atwood's methods. And a great deal can doubtless be said for the specialization of various universities. There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern. On the contrary educational institutions are chiefly valuable for their singularities. The rush to turn colleges into universities and to duplicate in each university the work...
...poor author would fall in ruins between them: Here, too, Jesse Lynch Williams, a compiler of Why Not? and Why Marry? Clayton Hamilton, rescued from Hollywood and the motion pictures but apparently still interested in them; Robert Stead, President of the Canadian Authors' Association; William Rose Benet, planning, doubtless, to put poetry into the movies, and so on and so on. Of the speeches I heard I liked best the statement of Archbishop Hayes, read by Father Kelly of the Catholic Writers' Guild. Here, too, was Elmer Rice, author of The Adding Machine. I understand that...