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This summary is evidence that labor has thrown no fright into the capitalists of the United States. This is undoubtedly well. If labor bas ends to attain, the less social scission provoked, the better. But there are these to whom a siesta of American labor agitation would not seem so salutary as it does no Mr. Gary. They are the people to whom the Passable strike is a revelation They are concerned in Mr. Gary's later and more controversial dicta...
Amid cries of "à bas Américains" from the audience, Mlle. Parisys burst into a song in untranslatable* argot, in which she voiced her determination to sell whatever she pleased without paying a sales...
...casts include many of the finest Babylonian, Assyrian, and Hittite bas-reliefs and other monuments in the museums of London, Paris, Berlin, and Constantinople; likewise books, seals, seal impressions, weights, statuettes, etc., in the same museums...
...originals comprise several hundred manuscripts (Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac); several thousand photographs and negatives; some two thousand jantern slides; a few bas-reliefs; and about two thousand clay books, seals, and statuettes of Babylonian origin; several thousand specimens of ancient pottery and coins from Palestine; and hundreds of specimens of the geology, fauna, flora, costumes, jewelry, and utensils of that country...
...impression made by the written monuments is reenforced by the art remains. The larger speciments, as bas-reliefs and statues, many of which have found their way to the museums of Europe and American, are annalistic in character, giving in pictures, as the written records do in words, the history of the rulers whose palaces they adorned. Many of these scenes, nothing those of battle and war practices, are ethically far from pleasing. Other bas-reliefs, as hunting scenes, are, though still annalistic and characterized by certain rigid conventions, true to life and finely executed. Notably is this...