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Paris, the city that decapitated one pair of Bourbon monarchs 138 years ago, welcomed the King & Queen of Spain exuberantly last week. Dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe had his bowler hat pushed over his eyes several times by ecstatic French and Spanish Royalists be- fore the Biarritz express pulled into the Gare d'Orléans. Queen Victoria Eugenie wept again at the unexpected welcome. Nine months ago the Prince of the Asturias, heir to the throne, arrived jauntily in Paris, apparently entirely cured of his haemophilia (easy bleeding) but the strain of the past fortnight was too much...
...whet U. S. appetites for the statue a fore arm was sent to Philadelphia for the Centennial Exposition in 1876, transferred to Madison Square, New York, for the next ten years, was finally joined by the rest of the statue in 1886 when the whole was solemnly unveiled on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor...
...Author (who pronounces her name Reppliay) has more than the ordinary good Catholic's interest in Mere Marie, for she was educated at the Ursuline Sa cred Heart Convent at Torresdale, Pa., be fore she submitted herself to the non-sectarian influences of the Universities of Pennsylvania, Yale and Columbia. Many a spring freshet has gurgled under the bridge since she published her first book of essays in 1888, but she is still one of the mainstays of Boston's august Atlantic Monthly. With Princeton's equally down right Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Agnes Repplier shares first place...
...There are still some Britons - fortunately fewer in number than they were - who believe in racial superiority and in feriority," said the new Viceroy of India. the Earl of Willingdon, last week, just be fore leaving London for New Delhi. "It is not the race of a man that counts." continued the Viceroy. "It is his character. I believe that there should be no racial discrimination at all - either socially or in the selection of men for administrative posts - even the highest." As Viceroy the Earl will receive $93,440 yearly or $1,797 per week; but in Karachi last...
...optimistic outlook for journalism which Walter Lippman pictures in the current Yale Review will be balm to those hurt minds which have seen the decline of civilization in the scare head lines, scandal stories, and lurid illustrations of the tabloids. Mr. Lippman fore-tells a general revulsion against the romantic tricks of the yellow press which will lead to a new "objective" journalism. Fresh reporting methods rather than sensational stories will be the means of preventing papers from acquiring the soporific faculty of government reports...