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Noble as it is the spirit in which the CRIMSON undertook to reassert some old and well established politico-philosophical beliefs, yet it may not be quite safe to try to fit them into the recent case of the execution of the Greek officials. What took place in the Near...
The civilized world read with unmixed indignation of the execution of six Greek leaders, military and civil, on a charge of high treason,--a charge based, it is claimed, on their defeat at the hands of the Turks, at the same time people in the United States are protesting scarcely...
The six Greeks, it is reported, went to their death like martyrs. They had done no wrong greater than other political conspirators of the past and present, and, together with the rest of the civilized world outside of Greece, they regarded their execution as a great in-justice. They had...
Both acts, in Greece and in Illinois, have been condemned--not because the one put six "heroes" to death or the other sets an "arch-traitor" free, but because they represent in themselves a perversion of justice. Perhaps the Greek execution is the lesser of the two.
The prose writing on the whole stands out better than the poetry, in execution and humor. "The Poets in the Bowl" and "How the Spring Came to Hiawatha" are above the average in every respect. Here we have a true professional touch that makes up for the general poetic deficiency...