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...satisfying tabloid. He is one of those excellent Victorian writers whose works have been neglected simply because he was a Victorian. In the same category falls Joel Chandler Harris, a writer of immense charm and once of great popularity. To the shame of present day taste even Harris Uncle Remus stories are not now very widely read...
...What Roman deity was alleged by the Vestal Rhea Silvia to have been the father of her twin sons, Romulus and Remus...
From India came a strange tale last week, a new Mowgli* story, a Romulus and Remus anecdote, with the genders changed. Bishop Pakenham Walsh of Calcutta, back in London from a visit to the mission of the Rev. Jal Singh at Midnapur, Bengal, told the tale and vouched for its truth. Some months ago the Rev. Jal Singh was told, by the wide-eyed inhabitants of an isolated village in his parish, to avoid a certain path into the hills. It was, they assured him, haunted by demons. Strong in his faith, and armed against wild beasts...
Three years ago Samuel Gompers journeyed to the American Federation of Labor convention at Portland, Ore. (TIME, Oct. 1, 1923, et seq.). His little cloth bunny was his mascot, a raggedy image of Uncle Remus' Br'er Rabbit whose nimble wits were so like Gomper's own. At that convention he was jubilant, declared: "On my honor as a man and as an adopted citizen of the United States,* with all sympathy for other people in their struggles toward realization of an ideal of freedom, I declare that I believe the Republic of the United States...
...then, with any jingoistic faith in huge national armaments but with a been realization that peace like the city of Romulus and Remus cannot be built in a day one is perpetually urged by the conditions of his age to wonder how best and with the least friction there can be maintained as a part of American education sufficient interest in and knowledge of modern warfare as to insure national integrity in whatsoever arises...