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...Late Nineteenth Century Setting...
...Nineteenth Century. Victoria's cream-colored ponies trotted up the avenue with a command for Orlando to dine; Lady Palmerston and Mrs. Gladstone left cards, but bored Orlando withdrew to the woods with her lover. True, she solemnly married him and bore her first child?but such was the irresistible convention of the crinoline...
...first place we have the new passion of nationalism; a passion even stronger in its potentialities for disaster than that of class or of race. M. Benda's analysis of the nationalism which grew up in the latter half of the nineteenth century and found its highest expression in the World War is keen and comprehensive. But it is not so much with the nationalism of men of action that M. Benda is concerned in his present work as with the nationalism of the intellectuals. Artists, scientists, philosophers, and poets, men of whom a certain degree of universality and detachment...
...twentieth Stockbridge Art Exhibition was more glittering, more splendid, than the first or the nineteenth. But some few colonists looked a little wistfully at their hills, their peaceful river. For 20 years, they had known what they liked. They were not quite certain that they liked change...
Hollis-"The Nineteenth Hole". An amusing skit on golf by a man who is a skilled hand at writing good comedies. II s'appelle Frank Craven...