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...fifth from the start assumes that Napoleon was a great man and a great actor and, in a series of sub-headed paragraphs, gives amazingly well a poignant outline of his life. The observations are keen, the style pleasing, the treatment intelligent. Considering its scope and the fact that it is written from a semimilitary standpoint, the book is an excellent piece of work, easy to lead, easy to digest...
...Other Governments have proposed a conference in Europe to extend the scope of the Limitation of Armaments Treaties; but the U. S. should not participate if it restricted her freedom of action. ¶ The movement to outlaw war should be assisted so far as is consistent with safeguarding U.S. liberty...
...talented, intense, egotistical grandson of President-Emeritus Charles A Eliot of Harvard. As a Harvard undergraduate, young Mr. Eliot embraced the cause of woman's suffrage. Later, when he was a professor of English, a theatrical laboratory similar to the one he had seen operating at Harvard gave scope to his feminist enthusiasms, through the production of plays written by and for women. Last month, Mr. Eliot and associates opened the Studio Theatre in Manhattan, an outgrowth and outlet of the Smith Laboratory...
...part of St. Reymont's epic of the soil is "a panorama of the whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil." The work is truly epic in its scope, a carefully worked, heroic pattern. It is a sweeping view of Poland, ground under the imperial heel of Russia...
...book system, is an ardent advocate of the latter method. In an address entitled The Use of Law Schools, he once said: "Under the influence of Germany, science is gradually drawing legal history into its sphere. The facts are being scrutinized by eyes microscopic in intensity and panoramic in scope. . . . I do think that, in the thoroughness of their training, and in the systematic character of their knowledge, the young men of the present day start better equipped when they begin their practical experience than it was possible for their predecessors...