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Said Ethel Barrymore, throatily: "It seems to me, sitting at this table with Hauptmann, as if I were sitting at a table with Beethoven, Heine, Goethe - and Hauptmann. Thank you. I can say no more." Actress Barrymore sat down, sobbed gently into a lace handkerchief. Occasion was a dinner at...
?Rudyard Kipling.
Anyone visiting this loan exhibition of the volumes of undergraduate and graduate book collectors will be struck by the wide range of tastes represented. There are choice editions of such Eighteenth authors as Lord Chesterfield. Joseph Addison, and William Shenstone from the libraries of W. A. C. Miller, III, '34...
The Army. India is a country of 318,000,000 souls. To keep it safe for Britain there is at the present time a British force of about 60,000 men and 165,000 native troops commanded by British and Indian officers. Britain may borrow from the native princes, at...
Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun and they have not. - Hilaire Belloc. Rudyard Kipling, shaggy-browed poet of British imperialism, who would never have written such a cynical (and honest) observation as Poet Belloc's, was 66 last fortnight. The Kipling Society had a banquet in London...