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...addition to "John Keats" from her pen have come "A Dome of Painted Glass", which appeared in 1912, "Sword Blades and Poppy Seed", 1914, "Six French Poets", 1915, "Can Grandes' Castle...
...black blood are inevitably bearers of sorrow and shame. Here a black-brown-yellow sequence is put in motion -'amid veld, Boers, oxen and other carefully-selected South African atmosphere-by a gaunt, buck-toothed missionary to the Hottentots. His act is a kind of sexual piety. His seed, of whom Mrs. Millin tells with Old Testament-like baldness, power and monotony, continue ashamed until an octoroon of the fourth generation "passes over"-that is, becomes white enough to be ashamed of his shame. Ironically, pathetically, he goes, as his great-great-grandfather went before him, "to help people...
...Poems. Miss Lowell treats as a skilled gardener does a rosebush he is transplanting: what the world sees ?leaf, thorn, flower?she deftly appraises; what few can see?the seed that springs in mystery, the slow roots thrusting through the dark of the mind to flower in beauty?she reveals with psychology for her spade. By this method, she puts the whole of Endymion through psychological reconstruction; explains why the Ode to a Grecian Urn is a "flawless example of clear, unvexed, wide-eyed beauty"; the Ode to a Nightingale "a no less perfect presentation of absolute magic...
Great industries often spring from small, practical extensions of existing industries. Is there the seed of such a growth in our shipping industry in the fact that the Ford Motor Company is to enter the Transatlantic shipping business...
...have taken off the market of late about 10,000,000 bushels of Argentine and Australian wheat. Russia, formerly a grain exporter, is reported to have entered the market as a buyer of U. S., Canadian and Argentine Hour, and of about 10, 000,000 bushels of U. S. seed wheat. To date, Argentina and Australia are said to have sold between 75,000,000 and 100,000,000 bushels of their exportable wheat surplus at advancing prices. Yet the apparently insatiable foreign demand continues...