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...convict with Love in his heart. He tarries awhile in this hovel of Muscovite anguish to bring light into the souls of the people, and by token of a dusted window, into the room, the main scene of sorrow. Apparently, this constitutes a symbol. It is in the same vein as the Servant in the House* and, no doubt, carries a great message, which fails to compensate for dramatic poverty...
...England, Dr. R. Cruchet experimented. From the veins, of a horse he drained off blood, which he diluted with serum and at once injected into the vein of an anemic patient. He did the same with the blood of an ox and the blood of a sheep. Horse's blood he found was tolerated best by his anemic patients...
...fair-minded man who will read the truth as presented by the modern biographer. Realism is the watchword, and while it mercifully covers a multitude of sins for the biographer, it exposes those of his subject even more satisfactorily. Ludwig's "Napoleon" is in the realistic and intimate vein, it is inexorable in its determination "to examine this man's inner life; to explain his resolves and his refraining, his deeds and his sufferings, his fancies and his calculations, as issuing from the moods of his heart." The result is psycho-analysis at its best and at its worst...
Ludwig indeed has laid himself open to comparison with the French author, who with others of various nationalities, was commissioned to write in the vein peculiar to himself and to his nationality a book about "the Elephant." His book appeared as "L'Elephant etc sec3 Amours." Certainly Napoleon's amours form as prominent a feature of Ludwig's biography as any other detail of his private or his public life, though not so prominent as to necessitate a modification of the title in the French manner. But an author is subject to grave charges when he deliberately proportions his treatment...
...rather dull ballad of a questionable source, from the center of the stage. Now Lampy does not snore so loudly. He knows the present best. But Pity of Pities! The clock ticking backwards leads his mind down into chaotic, confused imaginings. We find Diogenes in a humorous vein. Descartes would die all over again, and probably has, at the incoherent paragraph written in his honor. Shades of his Mathematical System...