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...sterilizing of European ambitions in America lost a large number of small states, politically and economically immature, with only one place to turn to for advice, help, and money. American interest in Latin. American concerns grew slowly throughout the nineteenth century, and after the triumphant Spanish War and the building of the Panama Canal, its influence became all powerful, and all important. American business men controlled the economic life, American adventurers sought their future in these undeveloped countries. Politics have been the tool of American business. The natural growth of a strong economic and political life rising...
...etchings were drawn by Charles Meryon, the most original etcher of the mid-nineteenth century, and one of the greatest architectural etchers of all times. Printed in brownish and often on green paper, which Meryon himself prepared, the etchings are unusually brilliant. There are 20 eachings in the collection given by Mr. Marvin, and of these there are two and even four impressions from a plate in its different stages of development...
...better than could ever be secured in the dilatory, lumber-wagon delays and tardiness of the present method of bringing the laws of the land up to the moral purpose of present civilization, and let us not continue the delays experienced in adopting the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth amendments...
...having its first showing before metropolitan audiences, is simple. William Augustus Jones, employed as a copywriter in the Carver Advertising Agency, conceives the idea that the only way to get on in business is to build up acquaintances on the golf course, and to swing big deals at the nineteenth hole. His plans for an advertising campaign fail to please Mr. Wilson, the manager of a giant soap factory, who takes his business away from the Carver Agency...
Professor Edmond Esteve, Professor of French Literature at the University of Nancy and Exchange Professor from France to Harvard University, will give a series of lectures during the second half-year on "The Transition from Romanticism to Symbolism, studies in French poetry of the second half of the nineteenth century covering the works of Baudelaire, Verlaine Mallanne, Henri de Requer and Emile Verhaereu...