Word: mystic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pierre loll, who has dreamed all his life of going to Tabiti, wrote this a 1972. Even as carly as then the Mystic ships of the Seven seas. The process of dissolution had already begun, which is today nearing its completion in the disappearance of the Tahitian race...
Those who have read his first book, "White Shadows In The South Seas" will know what to expect as to treatment and style in "The Mystic Isles". There is the same breezy journalistic style, readable and vivid above all, although some time uneven and crud; the same mixture of description and narrative and exposition all, brightened by Mr. O'Brien's even present exuberance and enthusiasm. It is this quality above all, we thinly which has made the author so suddenly and deservedly famous. He is always such a delightful companion, so alive, so eager and able to enjoy life...
There are far more characters which will be remembered in the "Mystic isles" than the author discovered in the marquesas. Derelicts from all countries, a Russian noble and merchant, "Lying Bill" Pincher, and old sea captain and scores of others from many ports. Mr. O'Brien make friends with them all, setting them down faithfully and realistically. Indeed "Lying Bill" Pincher was so well described that the original has sued the author for libel...
...CRIMSON, reputable withal, was for the League, in favor of "going in," to save the World. It appeared to be thinking of suffering mankind then. That was reputable. Can it be that it was merely in a mystic mood and so impelled to pay lip-service to a rare experience? The CRIMSON reflects the tendency of Repute to become identical with Callousness. As one of those branded by the CRIMSON as Hyphenate, I wonder how it feels to brand and all the while bow in awe before an Imperial Idol? J. L. DONOVAN '22. December...
...fascinated by this wonderful new America that has sprung up across the seas," said Maurice Maeterlinck, world famed Belgian poet, naturalist, and mystic, when interviewed by a CIRMSON reporter. M. Maeterlinck arrived in this country a fortnight ago for the first time to deliver a series of lectures on his views of the world beyond and of immortality. At present in New York, Maeterlinck will deliver an address in Boston at Symphony Hall on January...