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Thus warbled the muse of Gilbert & Sullivan in the great Gladstonian days of Liberalism.* But Fate, snickering, was even then implanting a new virus, "Laboritis," in the babes. Two infants, born to Conservative parents at the close of the Gladstonian era, grew up to political manhood, and last week vitally vexed their sires...
...although most Americans are hazy as to the whereabouts of Lithuania, and although there could be six revolutions to the minute there without affecting us, there will be plenty of readers to follow the stormy career of bold General Smetons, and to read of the opposing Cabinet Ministers, whose fate in such cases is always a hard and intriguing...
...truth after all is stranger than fiction. For the old preChristian festival of the coming of spring--in Plakos, the scene of the action, with the holy spring, the race of the young men and the sacrifices to appease a jealous God--on the outcome of which hangs of fate of the not unpleasing flapper heroine--lends a back-ground and flavor not to be found in the ordinary detective thriller. The past, the primitive past, with its mysteries and festivals that one feels are perhaps after all part of man, hangs over the book, a dark and rather compelling...
Since the movement is in the hands of capable and same editors there is no fear that the pendulum will swing too far and crash into sensationalism. Mr. Whipple says that when Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Bridges took over the fate of the dying Atlantic Monthly they put in new blood and "hung quietly in the skeleton closet the notion that the Atlantic was a sort of spinster literary chaperone and that its buff cover conspicuously enough displayed would protect an unattended female anywhere in the world." The new governors of other magazines have done no less. The scarlet...
...airships that have been constructed during the last few years could not conceivably suffer the fate of the Shenandoah. It is true that your American airship ran into a very bad storm, almost a tornado, but it would not have broken to pieces if it had been designed according to modern plans. Aerial styles change more quickly than any other kind, but they follow the dictates of Science and are steadily improving. Soon the plans that we are so proud of now will be regarded as mere experiments. I dare not estimate the progress of the future...