Word: apologia
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...Coolidge's "Cargo" has the true metaphysical tone of the 17th Century; "Apologia" (Mr. McLane) concludes the verse of the issue...
...purposes. The little band of Pelleastres that gathered more than a decade ago in the Opera Comique would find now only a timid enemy. J. D. Austin's "Debussy and his Critics," therefore, is pertinent rather, as an eloquent plea for fair-mindedness in criticism than as an apologia for the piquant and genial author...
...Newman's changes of belief as recorded in the Apologia...
...received. "Modern Painters;" Mr. Arnold's is "Literature and Dogma;" Mr. Browning's, "The Ring and the Book. The historians are headed by Froude 391, who comes next to Browning, closely followed by Mr. Freeman, 241. Mr. Herbert Spencer is eight with 235 votes, Cardinal Newman, (for his "Apologia) is ninth with 192 votes, John Morley has (187, William Morris, 147; Professor Huxley, 115; and Mr. W. E. Gladstone, 107. Novel writing is thought to appeal greatly to the popular taste but the novelists are at a discount, none of them getting a tenth of Mr. Tennyson's votes, Black...