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...this trivial difference over phraseology, at least according to the Russian delegation, which has caused no end of trouble at Genoa. The Communist, who never admitted the right of private property in the first place, cannot understand how anyone can find anything extreme or unreasonable in "expropriation". When the other members of the family of nations demur, and refuse to allow their citizens in Russia to suffer by this piece of Bolshevik logic, M. Kakowsky and his colleagues assume the attitude of injured innocence...
...romantic history of the Irish by an Irishman and an attempt to understand the human and popular forces that have made Ireland what...
...intensity and duration of the light which shines upon it. By thus finding out more about the natural laws which govern the transmission of messages from the eyes to the brain, they hope in some degree to make it easier for the medical profession in the future to understand and treat defects of vision...
...Lewisohn's essays are smoothly and interestingly written. Occasionally they are startling and surprisingly naive. He says there is not "anything so intricate to understand" in writing a play, and takes away the breath with such a statement as "A born dramatist can write drama without ever having seen a theatre." Perhaps that is sound theory but the world has never been blessed with "a born dramatist" then, for the greater dramatists have almost always been workers in the theatre. His criticisms of books on dramatic technique and on players, production and plays do not seen "desultory" because...
...criticism. For spiritualism, almost more than any other subject, has been exploited for long centuries; in Sir Arthur's wake there will almost certainly spring up a number of fraudulent mediums. This is apparently an evil which necessarily accompanies any kind of popular interest in an idea difficult to understand. In which last category all new ideas fall; the astrologers, phrenologists, palmists, and quack doctors who pursue their business profitably even in this 'enlightened' period, indicate that spiritualism is not the only subject which has its take progenitors...