Word: inland
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...verse, there are two poems of merit. E.E. Hunt, in his modern rendering of "Sir Orfeo," shows genuine literary conscience in sticking to the spirit of the original and in avoiding plenty of chances to decorate the phrasing. "A Shell Found Inland" proved a truly poetic find for J. G. Gilkey, who would have done better, nevertheless, to tell of it in two stanzas rather than in three. The rest of the verse and all of the fiction, save for passages here and there, have already been noticed at the beginning of this review...
...Clark has been intimately connected with the Congo movement for twenty-seven years. He was a missionary there under the direction of the Livingstone Inland Mission and later of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and was one of the principal witnesses before King Leopold's Commission of Inquiry. On this occasion he testified regarding the horrible atrocities perpetrated by the Belgian government to wring money from the natives...
...Clark has been a missionary in the Congo for twenty-seven years, first under the direction of the Livingstone Inland Mission and later of the American Baptist Missionary Union...
...Thursday, February 27, at 8 o'clock, Rev. Joseph Clark will give an illustrated talk in the Living Room of the Union on "The conditions in Congo." Dr. Clark has been a missionary in Congo for 27 years, under the direction of the Livingstone Inland Mission...
...poetry, Mr. J. S. Reed's sonnet on "Tschaikowsky" is marred by confused imagery; Mr. Wheelock's "From one Exiled Inland" conveys with pathos, yet not without a touch of exaggeration, the feeling of homesickness for the sea; and Mr. E. E. Hunt's ballital shows surprising success in a very difficult form of verse. A fantasy like Mr. C. H. Dickerman's "The Haunted Palace" could only be regarded as successful through the excellence of its technique. But the writer allows himself too much license to claim any triumph of this kind. Whenever the thought presses against the limits...