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What moved Baron von Bissing to this abhorrence of his fatherland? His friends declare that a partial cause was the judicial murder of a woman whose death was laid at the door of General von Bissing by Allied propaganda- Miss Edith Cayell. To erase that stigma from his family name was the futile hope and almost fanatical desire of the late Baron Walter von Bissing. The death of Miss Cavell has, of course, begun to seem less of a martyrdom to impartial neutrals as the facts have come to light...
Engaged. Ludlow Griscom, grandson of a founder of the International Mercantile Marine Co.; to Edith Sloan, granddaughter of the late Samuel Sloan...
Michael Arlen will have his name on two plays, written in collabora- tion. Edith Ellis has dramatized his The Cavalier of the Streets and Winchell Smith has helped Mr. Arlen on a comedy called What Fun Frenchmen Have...
...Maud Wood Park, Belle Sherwin, Mrs. Belmont, Alice Paul; leaders in practical politics, ranging from Ruth McCormick and Harriet Taylor Upton to Congresswomen Kahn, Rogers, Norton, Governesses Ross and Ferguson, who are really not leaders of women's movements at all; leaders of "social" movements such as Edith Rockefeller McCormick; leaders who have distinguished themselves in their own professions, such as Judge Florence Allen, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Jane Addams; women who have approached public life from poverty, from the bourgeoisie, from wealth and from social distinction. But one must credit Mrs. Catt with having gone the furthest...
THERE may be a divinity which shapes our ends, but it is the intelligence which relies as little as possible on such outside aid which is responsible for the writings of Edith Wharton. In her recent book of critical essays. "The Writing of Fiction," in describing the work of William James, Mrs. Wharton calls him "almost the only novelist who has formulated his ideas about his art." The book itself is a successful attempt to place herself in the illustrious company of James. She has shown that the effects which she has hitherto produced in such a work as "Ethan...