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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Such exciting letters as only hopping-mad, cussing-mad Irishmen can write poured in by the mailbagful last week upon Dublin's brindle-bearded George William Russell, poet, painter, philosopher and sprightly sage, famed as "AE." As greatly beloved as any living Irishman, Poet Russell had roused the furies by a pungent critique* of Ireland's secret and romantic brotherhoods as they exist today. A tough old patriot himself, he finds the brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object...
...Author. Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard was 24 when he went with Scott, did not write this book till 1922 because the War interfered. (This is the first U. S. edition.) During the War he was "in Flanders looking after a fleet of armored cars. A war is like the Antarctic in one respect. There is no getting out of it with honor as long as you can put one foot before the other." A believer in scientific exploration, Author Cherry-Garrard deprecates purely spectacular expeditions, thinks Amundsen's discovery of the South Pole was mostly that. Says...
...book will not please all her readers. Her idea is to approach England as a background for American history and common Anglo-American traditions. Possibly this is a good scheme, but "America's England" is too obvious in intent. This reviewer would have preferred to have Mrs. Hughes write about England simply because it is England. Accordingly, such chapters as "Georgia and Oglethorpe" are annoying. Nevertheless, on the whole, "America's England" is uncommonly good reading because Mrs. Hughes knows the high roads and the by roads of her native land as few do, and she writes about them with...
...spite of the learned opposition, the discussion at Washington will continue to fill many pages of the Congressional Record. Eventually a new tariff bill will be created. College professors will write more books on economic theory, pointing out the fallacies that are the foundation of the protecting wall and in time the nation's representatives will return to debating ways and means of solving the farm problem...
Naples, where the poet loved to write, and Brindisi where he died, will also observe impressively the "six months of tribute...