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...newest additions are titi monkeys, a group of cat-size creatures that form humanlike families consisting of a pair of adults--which mate for life--and their offspring. One, Callicebus bernhardi, is named for Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, a noted naturalist. The other is dubbed C. stephennashi, after Stephen Nash, a scientific illustrator...
Died. Arthur Schnitzler, 69, Viennese novelist, poet and dramatist (Casanova's Homecoming, Professor Bernhardi, Fraülein Else, Rhapsody, etc.); of a stroke, while re-writing a play; in Vienna. In a codicil to his will he directed that his funeral be "of the very last" (pauper's) class, that the money thus saved be distributed among hospitals, that a needle be thrust through his heart to remove any doubt of death...
That nation, however, still continues, undiscouraged, along the path of unapologetic self-aggrandisement. General von Bernhardi, the author of the ultra-militaristic "Germany and the Next War," which was published in 1911, has just completed another three-volume book in which he defies the foes of the fatherland and nerves his countrymen "to prepare in defeat for the victories of the future." He warns the world that though Germany may be forced to remain peaceful for a time, she will buckle on her armor again as soon as her manpower and strength return. With the nation's leaders preaching...
...valiantly in the short space he consumes, but he is certainly talking at cross-purposes with such agitators as Mr. Roosevelt when he can admit no alternatives between the "noble and exalted spirit of China," and what Mr. Mitchell in an editorial calls "the neurotic visions of a discredited Bernhardi." Historians might be inclined to doubt, also, if reason were the sole efficient cause by which the present harmonious arrangements were achieved "in the spheres of trade, religious beliefs and domestic politics...
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