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Professor Webster is admirably lucid and entertaining throughout; while his comprehensive and incisive insight enables him to present the giants of British diplomacy in a light which is peculiarly revealing. The character of the British nation comes in for close scrutiny, and those who take History 68 will find it useful for a great deal more than an understanding of foreign relations along. A better knowledge of all British lectures which give in turn something of the drama, humor, and thought which went into the external relations of the greatest empire in the world during the nineteenth century...
...love was to St. Francis. If Swift has been more frequently misunderstood than St. Francis, it is because men are allowed to love without giving reasons for it, but not to hate." His bitterest satire has become a harmless nursery tale (Gulliver's Travels). One of the most lucid minds of a lucid century, he died insane...
...modern substitute for the Bible. One of the high priests of our day (a scientist, a No. i mathematician), his writing "is not addressed to highbrows, or to those who regard a practical problem merely as something to be talked about." Few deny the high morality of his lucid logic, which makes even his rational counsels of perfection sound like simplest common sense, but few could put these counsels of perfection into practice. At least his simplifications should be an antidote to confusion...
With these paramount facts in mind the result of the election becomes a lucid alternative: either irascible Prime Minister "Iron Cross" Brüning, protege of President von Hindenburg, will refuse to accept defeat, dissolve the Reichstag a second time as he did last summer (TIME, July 28) and attempt to continue ruling by executive decree; or as is much more likely Herr Brüning's "Concentration Cabinet" of the Centre will quietly give way to a Left-Centre "Grand Coalition" of these same parties plus the Socialists. In either case Reds and Browns would be excluded, may be counted...
...Writing" deserve extra congratulations for the work they have turned out. They both either lecture or teach at Columbia University, yet manage to keep their ears very close to Fleet Street. They get down to brass tacks at the outset, and keep themselves right at work in a businesslike, lucid manner, until they have led the reader through the various processes of article writing, recognizing and planning material, writing, and getting the work printed. There are chapters on various types of articles, interviews, biography, book criticism, etc, and the book ends with a valuable chapter on the "Writer...