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...convinced that heroic themes in modern literature can be found only in Kipling will probably not grasp the significance of the work of Conrad. The essay on Conrad, in the reviewer's opinion, is inadequate and misleading. Like the other essays it has a neatly phrased central thesis pigeon-holing its subject. Conrad, though Polish, "expressed a certain Anglo-Saxon ideal better, perhaps, than any other man of letters." He taught "a stoic philosophy of life, that of the British man of action." This generalization is so incomplete as to be seriously misleading. Captain MacWhirr may be stoical...
Persians developed the art of training pigeons and the Greeks used pigeons to carry the names of Olympic winners to various cities. The French pigeon post during the Siege of Paris in 1871 was so successful that the Germans employed hawks and falcons to interrupt the service. Best means of frightening away birds of prey is to provide pigeons with bells and whistles...
Before the telegraph was perfected, the pigeon post enjoyed a great vogue among stockbrokers. It was used by news agencies to report yacht races before the invention of wireless. Its military use is today largely confined to fortress warfare, large flocks being maintained at the inland strongholds of Germany, France, Russia. Of late in the U. S., the military importance of pigeons has been recognized because of the ease with which telegraph and wireless facilities can be interrupted in modern warfare...
Sixth shows a pool of blood, a pigeon whose head is Yod; many hands partly blotting out the name of the Lord, partly blotting out a phylactery. This recalls a legend that the Lord is embarrassed by a murder...
...where waited President Justo, and in their shiniest toppers, his entire Cabinet, warped the great São Paulo. Guns belched out national salutes, and in the midst of the hubbub there was suddenly a great banging of crate lids and fluttering of wings. Members of the Buenos Aires Pigeon Society were releasing 10,000 bewildered white birds, each with one wing striped blue and white for Argentina, the other yellow and green for Brazil...