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...Significance. The book is a faery epic, astonishingly perfect. Its creatures will be recognized by Arthur Rackham and others who have traced the fairy folk. Its uncertain twilights are those that Yeats and Fiona Macleod and James Stephens have peered through. James Branch Cabell, who well knows the uses of buttered willow withes, will understand its magic. It must have been written "at an hour when hawkmoths first pass from bell to bell." Its meaning and its melody are "like the notes of a band of violins, all played by masters chosen from many ages, hidden on Midsummer...
These emotional swings in business sentiment must be rather carefully discounted by the conservative student of affairs. In business, as elsewhere, there is no perfect Heaven nor any utter Hell. The worst situation has some promise in it, while there is always something seriously the matter with every "period of prosperity," even from the beginning. The developments of the past two months are quite generally encouraging, yet common sense is still needed to counterbalance the fervid rhetoric of the revivalist school of business prophets...
Howell of Nebraska who, it was thought, might turn to the Progres- sives, came out for Coolidge. Others, such as .Senators Norris and Brookhart, remained on the fence. This will probably be the course of other insurgents. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Everett Sanders industriously labored to perfect a speaking program for the Republican candidates, while from politicians all over the country came word: "Send us Coolidge," "Send us Dawes," "Send us Coolidge and Dawes." Mr. Dawes decided to open his campaign with a speech at Lincoln, Neb., home of Governor Bryan, on Aug. 29. Maine will hold an election on Sept...
...then went to his father's country home at Gloucester, Mass., set up his experimental laboratory on a high bluff. Soon he had developed a means for radio control of a boat at sea. The perfection of this invention covered a period of years, but is now practically perfect. He applied the same principle to a torpedo and developed one that could be steered at will at a speed of 50 mi. an hour on the surface, or 27 mi. submerged. It was in this connection that he developed a type of non-interferable radio transmission. Several foreign Governments...
Wandering into the main dining room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel of an evening you may find him. There he is−tall, sober, the perfect bachelor, who has attained years of discretion. Like a gracious prince−for he is a man of distinction−he frequents this semi-public haunt, where ever and again appear the potentates with whom he may speak on terms of equality...