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...good to see that the editors no longer include verse "fillers", that bane of the undergraduate literary magazine, and that there are only four poems, each of which has an excellent reason for inclusion. They are all competent, with the exception of "The Coast Farmer", by Walter D. Edmonds, Jr., which is a great deal more...
...long way from the substitution of amicable for belligerent methods in the settlement of international disputes. One of the necessary weaknesses of the court consists in the very fact that it is not likely to prove an effective agency in removing for a long time to come the bane of war from the recognized institutions of international relations. This weakness goes to the very root of international relations in what I venture to call this socially backward age. No mere addition of machinery can create that necessary will to peace which is the best guaranty of the efficacy...
...small man, little more than five feet in height. He resembles more a prosperous farmer than a prince of the famous House of Savoy. Possibly there has never been a King in all history that has effaced himself so completely as has King Vittorio. Court formalities are the bane of his existence and he cuts them to a minimum. He is a constitutional monarch par excellence; indeed, it is said of him that "he is more constitutional than the Constitution...
...power of the Conference to adopt the suggested protocol led the French and English representatives to arrange a suspension of the Conference. Meanwhile, a committee is to visit the producing countries and the League Council, deliberating the opium question at Rome. For the present, prospects of destroying the "dope" bane are severely blighted...
Gatti. The season finds the Metropolitan high in the joys of tranquillity, prosperity, prestige. It is the 16th year of Mr. Giulio Gatti-Casazza's directorship. Few cares there are to vex the brows of impresario and Board of Directors. Deficits, the bane of opera, are not heard of. There are no violent dissensions that break upon the public ear. People of musing memory may be diverted to go back to the very different state of things that prevailed during Mr. Gatti's first years...