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...throne would then have passed to the Emperor's nephew. Franz Ferdinand, had not that Archduke been assassinated with his morganatic wile at Sarajevo in 1914. Although Franz Ferdinand had three children, Sophie, Maximilian, and Ernst, the crown went to Franz Ferdinand's nephew, Karl, husband of sober Zita de Bourbon, who was one of the 18 children of Robert Duke of Parma. Curly-haired Otto, the acknowledged heir, was their eldest child. Maximilian, son of Franz Ferdinand, is very much alive, and carries on the family fertility by having produced four more Habsburg princelings since his marriage...
...appears on the surface that this particular questionnaire is both sober and scientific, and that its authors have had expert advice in handling the material. That is as it should be. But there is, beyond this, much that is alarming. Even in competent and trustworthy hands, a matter of this sort is, to put it mildly, dynamite. The statistics are likely to be incomplete and therefore liable to misconstruction. If they are released to the press, one can scarcely conjecture what the effect will...
...took Francis Hackett almost five years to write his biography of Francis I. In November he promised his publishers: "The final section will be ready in December unless I get the pip." He writes of the completed book, "The beginning is quiet, simplified, kept sober in style. The second section is the opening of the fruit. Here is the Man in action as King, in love, in intrigue, in battle, at court, the spender and speculator and crook and adventurer. I have tried to squeeze the juice of French characteristics into these pages and to make him as human...
...Anon, seems to have had a slight suspicion before the rage of the true Irate Subscriber blinded his sensibilities and launched him on a tirade against undergraduate pomposity in general and mine in particular. His unflattering epithets and choice of comparisons seems strangely out of keeping with the "sober and constructive criticism" that he recommends so strongly...
...criticism. They have found, as I have, a curious ratio in some cases between the amount of advertising of a book in the "Review" and the favorable tone of the criticism of it. I did not mean to imply, nor do I know, that there never is honest, "sober and constructive" criticism in the magazine's pages, I was referring to such phenomena as essays on Addison's small clothes and like subjects, and reviews like Mr. George Steven's recent "Syllabus of Syllables" (a parody comment on Miss Gertrude Stein's opera. "Four Saints in Three Acts.") Such items...