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...Claudel is totally anomalous. Who has heard before of a mystic-Vice Consul (New York, 1893; Boston, 1894), of a poet- Consul (Shanghai, Foochow, Tienstin, Prague, Frankfort-On-Main and Hamburg until 1914), finally who ever heard of an active play-wright† as Minister to Brazil (1916), to Denmark (1919) and finally Ambassador to Japan since 1921? The man is a reductio ad paradoxa...
After quoting this stout Saxon catch, the Very Reverend William Ralph Dean Inge of St. Paul's goes on to say4 that England, although "less healthy than Scandinavia and Denmark . . . ranks with Holland as a very salubrious country." Prom such a mixture of ballads, statistics and dry humor he has concocted rather than written his thoughts upon: Empire, Industrialism, Democracy, and the Soul of England, each of which receives a thoroughgoing chapter...
...bill appropriating $2,341,000 for the rebuilding of the Picatinny Army Arsenal at Lake Denmark, N. J., blown up last year at a cost of 22 lives, $84,000,000 worth of Government property (TIME, July...
Belgium and Sweden, sentimentally united by the marriage of Crown Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid (TIME, Nov. 15), were drawn yet closer, last week, as the Swedish Parliament debated a treaty bringing Belgium into the group of nations (Denmark, Norway, Finland) absolutely pledged to peace with Sweden...
...Passage at the gateway to the Caribbean Sea, 60 miles east of Porto Rico, 1,400 miles from Manhattan. The Virgin Islands were, as every schoolboy knows, discovered by Columbus in 1494 on his second voyage to the Americas. They were purchased by the U. S. in 1917 from Denmark for $25,000,000. They are not big (132 square miles); the harbor of St. Thomas looks like a baby Golden Gate. In this realm live several hundred Americans, Danes and Spaniards, 20,000 Negroes. They plant sugar, have tropic fun. A few of them are disgruntled because...