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Anatole France, poet and philosopher, sounded the call of the opposition to the Government, although confining himself to damning the Treaty of Versailles. Speaking of the nineteenth century philosopher Renan, whose centenary has just been celebrated, M. France said that " he (Kenan) would have been shocked to see that so cruel a war was followed by a treaty which does not end it, which is nothing but the organization of disorder, hatred, discord and poverty in unfortunate Europe." Coming at such a time it is a deftly veiled disapproval of Poincare's policy in the Ruhr, but not too deft...
Trevelyan: British History in the Nineteenth Century...
There are three classes of the books: the first consists of 140 volumes of Czechoslovak literature, novels, plays, and poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, selected on account of their representative character and their importance in the study of comparative literature. A second class is sets of periodicals: 42 volumes of "Listy Filogoicke" (Journal of Philology) and 25 volumes of "Wase Dola" (Our Times). Finally there is a large contribution of 92 volumes of the publications by the Czech Academy on philology in general and Czechoslavak in particular. Many of these last volumes are rapidly becoming unobtainable and were...
Sensational as it is and melodramatic in the extreme, Jesse Murphy's speech ranks with Webster's at the trial in Salem. And the great climax of the nineteenth-century attorney is twisted in the case of the twentieth-century prisoner until the latter finds a refuge not from but in confession...
...humiliating! This anonymous correspondent of the "Saturday Review" would limit the admission of Americans to Oxford. Unfortunately, his is not a solitary opinion. "I would welcome", says a Senior Tutor at Exeter College, Oxford in the "Nineteenth Century", "as freshmen at my College rather two English secondary school boys than four Colonials or fourteen Americans. . . ." Review" asks of a defender of the Americans, "His it ever occurred to his that with the control over the Union, their influence over a section of the Press and their secondary in the social clubs, the Americans will soon assimilate Oxford?' while another remarks...