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...object" of the balloon race is to float as far as possible from the starting point. This looks simple, far simpler than piloting a racing airplane. The balloons entered in a modern race are more or less alike, the equipment and instruments are identical. Since the wind is the sole propelling agency, it would appear that luck alone is the deciding factor.. Far from it. Skill is more important: in ballooning than in airplane racing, where the technically best machine is almost certain...
Nothing is quite so easy to do, or so unfair in the ''doing, as throwing mud at former prophecies that haven't "panned out." Hindsight, now as previously, is much simpler than foresight. All the same, there was heard last week considerable criticism of the bankers and industrial leaders who last Fall predicted great prosperity this Spring. The Spring has come, but profits in most lines of industry are getting leaner each week; in some industries they have disappeared...
...their fellows; the people who escape it take precaution against infection. In Mr. Strachey's book, however, the germs have been sterilized and, far from needing or deserving quarantine, it should be taken by some as inoculation against Radical Socialism and by others against Ultra Conservatism. In simpler terms, this antitoxin is the quintessence of applied economics made easy by Mr. Strachey's facile...
...political satire and its refreshing common sense. Sancho, while governor of the Island of Barataria, deals out justice after the manner of Solomon; sparkling epigrams fall from his lips in scores; his plans for preserving peace are extraordinarily like those of the winner of the Bok Peace Prize, although simpler and some-what more practicable. But withal, the strain of governing is too much for his kindly soul, he gladly relinquishes the throne to the true Duke who, we are made to feel, has learned a valuable lesson during Sancho's brief reign...
...Significance. Mr. Conrad's first novel after a three years' silence belongs with Victory, Rescue, Nostromo and the other major masterpieces of his work. The style is a little simpler, a little less gorgeous, than in some of his novels. But it is no less masterly, and the men and women described are so wholly alive that they haunt the mind. Peyrol himself deserves a place beside Lingard and Heyst and the other great wanderers, and throughout the pages of The Rover, Mr. Conrad gives us anew that impression of space and completion that is stamped upon...