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...happy note rings through "In April," a poem graceful in form as it is charming in thought. It reminds one of Horace's Solvitur acris hiems, regenerate with the intensity and the subjective spirit of modern poetry...
March 28 - Chanson de Roland. (Reading in modern French from the old French text.) Professor Cohn...
Question: "Resolved, That the Maintenance of Large Standing Armies by the European States is inconsistent with the Advance of Modern Civilization...
...telescopic eye of the Sheff. note editor has been unable to discover why the chimneys of "my aunt's" house should be "comfortably smoking" while Mollie is at the same time "shading her eyes from the hot sun." Smoking with reflected heat, probably. The essay on "Modern Realism" is partly true and a little untrue in places. The writer shows a trifle of feminine mawkishness in speaking of French realism - perhaps he is thinking of Zola - though we don't believe in displaying the under side of art, as Dumas has said, any more than anybody else does. - Tale Courant...
March 28 - Chanson de Roland. (Reading in modern French from the old French text.) Professor Cohn...