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Historians noted that, during the 74 years of Queen Margherita's life, the Kingdom of Italy was created out of a group of petty states. During that period the great Mazzini "watered the ideal of a united Italy with the blood of martyrs." Coincidentally Count Cavour, famed "Bismarck of the Princes of Piedmont," built up their power until his bluff, hearty master, Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Sardinia, became the first King of a united Italy. His son, later Umberto I, married the Princess Margherita, and their reign began in 1878 and ended in 1900. Since then the widowed Queen...
...despotism ever erected has permanently withstood the shifting gales of fortune. One wonders whether the present structures will be peacefully razed by their liberally minded builders or tumble sanguineously, undermined by armed rebellion. If Mussolini, de Rivera, and Pangalos approach in wisdom Plato's ideal rulers, they will retire gracefully when they have set their respective lands in order. Byron sings of Miltiades...
Apparently this great romance was nothing very odious from the hints in the first instalment: "When Senator Brandegee, then young and handsome, entered the drawing room where the gay party was being staged and saw his beloved ideal sitting on a table and smoking, he was so shocked that he turned on his heel and left without a word." This incident it appears doomed him to "gloomy bachelorhood" . . . until weighed down with sorrow and loneliness he ultimately committed suicide. It would be ridiculous, were it not that the dead man deserves better at the hands of the living...
...living are paraded with the dead Senator across the ridiculous and scandalous scene?Helen Hay, Rebecca Knox, Edith Root, Elinor Wylie,* who "had not then distinguished herself by her poetry or her love affairs, save for occasional passionate little verses"?not to mention Brandegee's "beloved ideal" not mentioned by name but described as "the wife of another distinguished statesman." This unknown woman, poor thing, was described at length...
...possible that the present American example of stupid boredom is but a transitional period of intertia, a static state of incubation, preparing the way for an eventual elevation to the heights of serene contemplation. To this end is the "Great Creed of Inaction", and Mr. Farrar's ideal lies in the other direction. "The truly wise man ignores reputation; the perfect man ignores self; the divine man ignores action." This is but the dictum of Chuang Tizu, the greatest of Taoist philosophers, and Taoism does not exert any very remarkable influence in this country; it can be no more than...