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...work now issuing from the press, the fact of its mediocrity must be admitted. If the brotherhood and sisterhood of the P. E. N. would divert some of the celestial fire which animates their search for the modern holy grail toward reducing the quantity and raising the quality or present-day reading matter they could render this country and the rest of the world a real and immediate service...
...opportunity to view and review the conditions under which that unhappy country has been existing for the past few years. The observations which he has made, and the information which he has gleaned, obviously from Soviet quarters, form the material for the book. Dr. Nansen has pictured, admittedly superficially, present-day Russia, her trade, financial, agricultural, industrial and educational situation. In each case he has striven to be fair to everyone. He has shown considerable sympathy with the Bolsheviki in their troubles, but he has not been blind to the viewpoints of outside persons.. Briefly he tells...
...Although present-day Belgium was known to the Romans as Gallia Belgica, her history for the most part has been interwoven with that of the Netherlands. It was not until 1830, when the collapse of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands took place, that the modern State of Belgium was created. At that time and for a number of years later, the Dutch evinced a rabid hostility toward the Belgians, but this feeling has gradually diminished during the past 50 years, although the above clash shows that some bad blood still courses through the veins of both peoples...
...Professor James Worthington, an astronomer of Carmel, Calif. He is interested chiefly in astronomical photography, but his achievements may revolutionize commercial and motion picture photography. In good moonlight a one-second exposure with Worthington's lens will give as perfect detail as a half-hour exposure with present-day cameras. His plates show shadows cast by starlight. The secret is no new discovery, he says, but "a simple fundamental," taught by Euclid long before photography was known...
...program arranged for the occasion includes discussions on present-day religious topics; lectures and addresses by prominent men, chapel services at Appleton Chapel, and two dinners at the Union...