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...ROOM WITH A VIEW?E. M. Forster?Knopf ($2.50). Mr. Forster is irritated beyond measure by conventional humanity. But he keeps his temper and laughs good-humoredly from his window at the British Babbitts in Italy. The view from the room was over the Arno, and Florence?of the tourists?is the background for a good part of the book...
Three main considerations should, however, serve to temper Mr. Babbitt's complacency. In the first place financial conditions in Western Europe, and especially in Germany, are in many respects becoming more rather than less chaotic, and until the credit and currency of this important part of the world are stabilized, America too must suffer in some degree. Secondly, certain fundamental lines of business in this country aro not yet on a satisfactory basis, chief among these being our vast agricultural, coal and railroad industries, and the current housing and rent situation. Thirdly, the cycle of business, now evidently rising...
...final two hours on Sunday morning were eminently characteristic of the temper of the two bodies. In the House, the scene of prize-fights and vaudeville repartee, Republican made love to Democrat and vice versa, while the Marine Band played and various members rendered vocal selections. The Senate was--the Senate. To the very end partisan, snapped at partisan and the body finally disbanded without even the usual vote of thanks to the presiding officers. So died the Sixty-seventh Congress, just as it had lived...
Senator Robinson is a fighting Southerner who talks with his fists. Born with a red-headed temper, he soon acquired freckles. But years of law and politics have induced a certain amiability, so that he now enjoys fishing...
...wishes in a Theological School he wishes this atmosphere of intellectual and moral reality. No show of piety or no flavor of professionalism can make up for any suggestion of unreality. A man may enter the Harvard Theological School knowing that the School is true to the whole temper of the University life...