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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief criticism of the book is that Phillip Sellaby is not the pulsing human being he should be. His experiences are vivid enough; the author has a faculty for imagining situations. But, as we have said before, the story seems at least partially auto-biographical. The reader feels Mr. Benet is writing more or less about himself and trying to picture how he would react to certain situations; that is, about a kind of ideal himself with whom he is not fully acquainted--or at least whom he is reticent about letting anyone but himself know intimately. The irony...
...these first illustrated books the book page was regarded as a unit, with text and illustration in perfect harmony. The pictures in general were not intended to apply to a particular passage of the text, but were illustrations of some principle of episode which would serve to arouse the reader's religious emotions. Certain stock illustration appear therefore in different books in different connections. The blocks became worn from repeated use, so they were copied, often three or four times. It frequently happened that the third or fourth copy of a block bore only a slight resemblance to the original...
...spite of Mr. Tumulty, as if were, there comes to the reader one firm conviction--that. Woodrow Wilson was thoroughly sincere in every action; that he never acted without the certain belief that what he did was right. No matter what may be our opinion of his leadership, his judgment, his diplomacy (and even these, one may believe, will appear better from a distance), this memory of him is destined to live; in everything he did as President he was a high-minded patriot and a sincere idealist...
...dream are narrated with a painful vagueness. It is all very well to claim that such a method enhances the desired mysticism or the exotic Indian atmosphere; but technical devices should not become obvious mannerisms, and the interpretation of some of the episodes almost baffles even the most careful reader. Mr. Weeks' store called "The Arrow-head" proceeds clearly and cleverly until the denouement is reached; then the mode of treatment is suddenly changed, and the final situation is suggested so dimly that the result is an anti-climax. The some difficulty appears in a less degree in "The Walloping...
...Alliance. That was the beginning of this complicated international problem of Shantung, which the iniquitous decision of the Paris Peace Conference has made known the world over. Then the Shantung question started the notorious '21 Demands of 1915, whose contents might not be familiar to the average reader, but they were most inimical to the vital interests of China. The Alliance was partly responsible for the 21 Demands. If there is any one thing of vast importance to China at the coming Washington Conference, it is the absolute negation of the 21 Demands. Having received such advantages from the Alliance...