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...Lucid Bertrand Russell's attitude "is not really one of hostility to moral rules; it is essentially that expressed by Saint Paul in the famous passage on charity . . . namely, that no obedience to moral rules can take the place of love, and that where love is genuine, it will, if combined with intelligence, suffice to generate whatever moral rules are necessary...
Paradoxically the case of Crown v. Kylsant is not, from a purely legal standpoint, either complex or remarkable. In lucid British fashion King's Councillor D. N. Pritt put the case last week at Guildhall thus...
...Bolsheviks are followed through their various vicissitudes with outlines of how these troubles were handled. Fortunately, the writer never allows himself to become enmeshed in the labyrinth of Soviet political structure but only considers the various commissions which wield the real power. For this reason his exposition is unusually lucid even if rudimentary...
...seems to be little reason for a whole chapter on Aiken's novel. "Blue Voyage", which as a particularly clear elucidation of the author's own ideas could hardly by improved on by another layer of prose by Mr. Peterson. However, taken all in all he has written a lucid and illuminating appreciation of Courad Aiken whom he realizes to have gone as far as possible in the direction of spiritual disorder without plunging into madness," a poet who lives with the language of Freud and the feelings of Othello...
...greater length by Claude Bowers. "Hamilton and Jefferson" and "Party Battles of the Jackson Period" are both written in a colorful and dramatic fashion, enlightened by vivid portraitures of historical figures. Mr. Lynch, however, has no eye for pure dramatic effect. What he aimed at was primarily a lucid, accurate narration of events. Yet his subject is often so dramatic in itself that any efforts to make it more so might well have been abortive. Thorough documentation and adherence to fact need not deter one from finding it readable and entertaining...