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Dying as he did with the French Parliament not in session, M. France was not accorded a national funeral, though the simpler obsequies planned were to be paid for by the Government...
Thus, before he is thorough, this charming old villain may very well persuade the Protestant Episcopal Church to abandon heresy-trials, to protect itself from the uncongenial members by divorcing them from the Church on the much simpler grounds of incompatibility. So wisdom will be justified of its eccentric children...
...from Mr. Boyce. Mr. Hillyer's verses ought never to fall of welcome where poetry is loved; Mr. Damon's two contributions are pleasantly and skilfully turned. Mr. Boyce's "The Trail Beyond", a dramatic story on the difficult theme of intense hate, would gain, we feel, from a simpler and more direct treatment. The effort to suggest the vortex of sensations in the hero's mind, sustained as this effort is from beginning to end, cannot help straining at points. Highly effective in such scenes as the combat at "El Capitain", it often makes mystery where...
...Illinois, anti-McAdoo leader, challenged McAdoo to advocate a change to a Dimple majority requirement for nomination. Under a majority-vote rule McAdoo would need only 550 votes?about 150 more than he now has. If Mr. McAdoo is to be nominated, such a change would make the matter simpler. On the other hand, if Mr. McAdoo is not to be nominated, the change would make it less easy for him to prevent the nomination of an opposing candidate, such as Mr. Brennan may favor. If either side secures a change to a majority rule, it will prove...
...unexpected by the Left as by everone else; and the fabrication of a new government comes as an unanticipated contingency to the victorious by bewildered Liberals. It is not improbable that the Left will discover the overthrow the ruling party by a coalition of Cissatisfied, rebellious elements a far simpler matter than the welding of these elements into a homogeneous mass capable of retaining power and administering the government...