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With the death of Thomas Hardy the chain connecting the Victorian and modern literary worlds is broken, for he was undoubtedly the strongest remaining link. The contemporary of such literary gods as Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Thackeray, Troilope, Charles Reade, Lytton, Rosetti, Morris, Ruskin, Meredith, and Swinburne, his quiet passing...
Trade Continued. Ironical was the fact that Premier Baldwin and his Ministers kept repeating that His Majesty's Government will do nothing to hinder "genuine trade" between Britons and Russians through "business channels," and will allow "an adequate number" of Soviet Russians to remain in London for this reason.
Explanations. Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks was greeted by ironical Laborite cheers when he entered the House of Commons on the morning after the raid. He said:
Conclusions: 1) The plav may postpone the next war with Mexico for several weeks. 2) For a line relative to making war on Mexico for the sake of oil interests? "Hearst tried in 1911, but he didn't get away with it"?Oilman William Randolph Hearst may institute libel...
Ghosts. Ibsen's tragedy employing a pathological mishap as symbol of the hideous immorality that easily hides beneath "respectability," is familiar to Broadway. Last year it was done, and the year before and. . . . The plot is taken up with the attempt to build an orphan asylum in honor of...