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...Popular Mechanics" is now a sharer in the glory of the "Cosmopolitan" and the "Transcript" in that it receives attention to the extent of a copious special number of the Lampoon. To the unmechanically inclined reader there must be satisfaction in finding here the realization of many of his most impractical dreams, and genial and often pointed scoffing at the more obvious foibles of one of the chief ornaments of our newsstands. Whether the devoted reader of "Popular Mechanics" who has for years compounded folding beds out of hen houses by following the directions in his favorite periodical, will...
...Gavit writes a pleasing sketch, Mr. Garrison likewise; and lastly Mr. MacVeagh's trifle. A drama article and copious reviews of good books (here the graduates creep in) conclude the number. One closes the issue with the feeling that the Advocate Board, having produced a number of genuine humor and quality, deserves a ride that luxurious-looking, self-propelling carriage advertised on the reverse cover...
...First: copious apoligies for not having written you before. Many times I thought to avail myself of the privilege but writing tables are dishearteningly scarce and the knee is a shaky substitute. Now, however, I have a very substantial mahogany table (that must date back as far as the last of the Napoleons) a rather massive French lamp, and a most comfortable armchair. All that is lacking is the ability to write of conditions here in the way I should like...
...stop the war and incourage a social revolution." Naturally, I made no such sweeping and unjustifiable indictment. But I did use substantially the words cited above with regard to some leaders of the most radical wing of the Russian Socialists, the Bolsheviki. This statement was based on the copious documentary evidence published by the Russian Government last July, evidence which, I think, has sufficiently opened the eyes of unprejudiced men as to the real character and the pernicious activities of many of the Bolshevik leaders. R. H. LORD...
...subject and imaginative sympathy with the characters described. If exception may be occasionally taken to particular statements (such, for example, as the assumed identity of Bluebeard with Marshall or Retz), these are not matters of importance. Mr. Wright's style has freedom and richness, but it is rather too copious; with the practice of restraint he may make it distinguished, He has no difficulty in arousing and holding the interest of the reader. Regarded simply as an account of the mysterious excesses of occultism and of the nature of its votaries, his essay is decidedly effective. But as an argument...