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From the scanty reports that escaped through the mesh of the Spanish censorship, the war between the Moorish rebels under Abd-el-Krim and the Spanish forces under Director Primo Rivera appeared to be going from bad to worse for the latter...
Some volumes, having attained patriarchal age, may not impossibly be granted a dignified privacy in the chill seclusion of a Vault or behind a wire mesh, but they suffer correspondingly in that they are thus completely cut off from the reading world. After all, a book must necessarily cherish a yearning to perform its function of imparting its con tents. There is little satisfaction in social position per se if no one bothers to find out how it was attained...
...bring out their idiosyncrasies in the funniest manner. There is an alderman who "bosses" town and council and is in turn "bossed" by a Xantippian wife. There is a dapper young insurance agent who undertakes to get his friend out of trouble, and instead draws him into a mesh of complications. There is a group of aldermen typifying various stages of conservatism, churlishness and inebriation...
...Drury closes with the following admonition: "Let men under thirty, of good education, consider the call to be all things to all boys. Let the men in the cage downtown, who see life through a wire mesh, put the problem of bonds versus boys. There are many misfits and many sad dislocations. Let the man who has mistaken a chance vacancy for a vocation think twice before he spends his life persuading himself that the one is the other. There are men selling dry-goods who ought to be breaking bronchos; there are men in the mills who ought...
...calling, in spite of the irregularity of tenure and the pitifully small remuneration. And the answer to the problem is so simple that its simplicity has probably caused it to be overlooked: In this country, almost alone of the great nations, the service is caught in such a mesh of politics, is so far removed from the real advantages of the civil service that men cannot run the risks of sudden unemployment attached to it. There is no doubt but that college men would enter the consular service in as great numbers and of as good character as could...