Word: illusionality
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The tortuous mind of Wilhelm of Doorn, still half obsessed by its illusion of Heavenly guidance, is nowhere better revealed than in his Memoirs (Harpers, 1922.) He wrote:
MAPE, THE WORLD OF ILLUSION- Andre Maurois-Appleton ($2.50). Enchanting as the world of illusion may be, it becomes tedious when created or interpreted by colorless characters. The author of Ariel (that rare book) has here expended his remarkable power of lucid biographical romancing upon two fruitless subjects out of...
WHEN Mr. Koussevitsky presents the "Pines of Rome" with a canned nightingale as a member of his orchestra, he does not create an effect to be condemned for its novelty as realism. And if anyone were to paste grandfather's own moustache upon his crayon portrait in the parlor, the...
Later, Jane Addams again took the rostrum, greying, spare and benign in her 66th year. Her penetrating low voice filled the hall with quiet reminiscence. She made no comment on a remark by President Vaile to the effect that the day of organization has succeeded the day of leadership in...
The Romantic Young Lady tells, curiously enough, the story of a romantic young lady. She dreams and sees visions after the manner of romantic young ladies. And then one day in at her open window blows the hat of her favorite novelist. The rest of the play concerns itself with...