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Lloyd George, surrounded by megaphones, microphones, amplifiers, bands, bunting and banners, left London to address 5,000,000 throughout the country. The ex-Premier's speeches, one in London and another in Glasgow, were confined to an all-round attack on the Labor and Conservative Parties. In an attack on Protection, the ex-Premier set himself some questions: " When a man comes forward and says: 'I am putting forward myself for the position of managing director in a concern,' a humble shareholder like myself answers: 'Well, you have been at your job five months; what have...
...tumult and the shouting had not died. Protests came. Lee had not been so stout. His beard was silky. It was not bristly. Historical events were not thus and so. In the midst of this fluttering and chittering, I sought out the lovely old frame house where Ellen Glasgow lives. She was, it seemed, in New York City. So presently, having come back home again to New York City, I found Miss Glasgow on the eve of returning to Richmond. But I found...
...Miss Glasgow is one of the few realists in America who have succeeded in giving their work a touch of genuine poetry and quaintness of atmosphere. She knows thoroughly the towns and people of which she writes. She has studied their beauties as well as their peculiarities. Her rich humor and wistfulness give to her novels and stories a rare quality of humanity as well as quiet distinction...
...Ellen Glasgow was born in Richmond. She is of the South; but she is not by any manner of means provincial. She was educated, being a delicate child, at home and at private schools. Yet she is by no means a woman secluded from life. She has wide contacts and interests. She talked as intelligently and appreciatively of Eleonora Duse's performance as she did of her favorite dog. Here is a really important figure in the history of American letters; for she has preserved for us the quality and the beauty of her real South...
...Earl Birkenhead: " Said I in a speech to Glasgow University students: 'The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout arms and sharp swords, and it is therefore extremely improbable that the experience of future nations will differ in any material respect from that which has happened since the twilight of the human race. It is for us, therefore . . . to maintain in our own hands adequate means for our own protection and, so equipped, to march with head erect and bright eyes along the road to our imperial destiny...