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...65th Congress in 1917 set forth a modest proposal for prohibiting the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes. The proposal was subsequently adopted as a part of the U. S. Constitution. But it is doubtful whether members of the 65th Congress would have recognized their proposal as explained last week by Hudson Maxim before the Free Thinkers Society of New York...
Special mention must be made of Major General Lord Edward Gleichen (former Count Gleichen and son of Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langen-burg), who as a soldier and an author is a man of great distinction. Under his direction the above six volumes have been admirably prepared and set forth. The division of the material has been made wisely and in such a way as to cause the reader a minimum of inconvenience...
...Another dream play, less truant. It achieves a Messianic message without driving one's tear ducts bankrupt. H. G. Wells and St. John Ervine, in dramatizing Wells' early novel of the same name, have discarded much of its pungent satire, playing safe with more drama. They set forth the earthly visit of an angel, intent on spreading sweetness and light, who finds himself gradually steeped in sticky mortality. He seeks tolerance for a lovelorn housemaid left with a war baby, lashes a war profiteer who forces his attentions on her, agitates the lady of the manor hitherto accustomed...
Coach Mitchell is noncommital on the results of his seven weeks' guardianship of the battery candidates, saying rightly enough that the drill has been of such an elementary nature that it is in no way conclusive. Meanwhile the daily press continues to blossom forth intermittently with laments on the weakness of the Crimson mound staff...
...Significance. The book is dry narrative. But it is interesting because it sets forth one of the most absorbing of stories?the incredible picture of 19th Century imperialism. The British colonized Africa under an impulse that seemed to spring equally from the mission societies, the British Museum, the trading companies, and to be carried on with a classic casualness. Johnston first met Cecil Rhodes at a bachelor dinnerparty in London. The two sat up all night discussing a new scheme for colonization in central Africa; when they parted the next morning Rhodes had given Johnston a check...