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On March 4 President Harding completed the first two years of his Administration, which was the signal for many dignified and somewhat rhetorical eulogies from his friends and a few bitter denunciations from his political enemies.
The latest revelation has, however, gone too far in the direction of realism. It belies itself. The "Mayflower", of all impeccable ships, is now accused of carrying cows, and actually,--pigs. The horror of the imputation would be unspeakable,--but fortunately we know better. With the authentic load of hymn...
The best of the poetry is in the first stanza of Mr. Morrison's unnamed poem and Mr. Behn's "Mid-Day". Mr. Morrison's truly poetic thought is spent in his first stanza, whereas "Mid-Day" is more "consistent. "To Teon Apostate" has rhetorical possibilities with more of a...
The next question was what Mr. Markham's opinion of new verse was. "I welcome new verse," he replied emphatically, "because I always try to keep an open mind and to stand with hands open and receptive to the gifts of the future; and I welcome the new verse because...
Common impression no doubt is that the qualities which the man who aspires to the law must find in himself are forensic and rhetorical. On the contrary the law requires not so much speaking and writing as thinking, and no man need be deterred from entering the law because he...