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...tries to reveal not Marshal Foch but Monsieur Foch. From the nature of the man as well as the Boswell, one could scarcely expect a record of daily life and opinions comparable in readability with, for example, Jean Jacques Brousson's record of Foch's brother-Academician, Anatole France. It was inevitable that people must learn that Foch's "private life was irreproachable" and that he considered "born believers" the world's happiest people. But it was not inevitable that a great nature's simplicity should have been made to seem dull. Author Bugnet...
...Academician René Bazin had written: ''Do not judge a country by the first citizen you happen to meet nor the first newspaper you happen to read. Study its history...
Last week an aspirant to the French Academy of Sciences, Dr. H. Barjot, printed in Paris his suggestion to the Academy of a temperature-differential power plant the inverse of Academician Claude's. Dr. Barjot would generate his power in Polar regions where water under the ice is 32° F. (freezing) or warmer and the air above 20° below zero or colder. He would pump sub-ice water into a surface tank partially filled with butane or some other hydrocarbon of low vaporization point. In the tank the ice water would freeze and release it? comparative heat...
Painter Mattison appeared to be an academician before his time. His was an old-fashioned mythology picture, called Ignis Fatuus. In the painting, there were the nymphs who, according to fable, lured reckless sensation-seekers across the bogs outside of Rome eager to discover the secret of the strange fires that burned upon them. Artist Mattison had included in his composition a man chasing the three false fiery girls. He was clutching at them but his hands were empty, the nymphs were laughing and the man was about to sink down in the bog. The background of the picture...
...Royal Academy included in 1768 (the year it was founded) two women members.** From that day to this no woman had been a segment of the sacred circle, until last week. Mrs. Laura Knight, "England's greatest woman painter," is the new Associate Academician...