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...Romain Rolland is writing the first biography of Mahatma Gandhi--the man who has stirred three hundred million people to revolt, shaken the foundation of the British Empire and introduced into human politics the greatest religious impetus in the last 2000 years. This biography will be published in The Century Magazine beginning with the December number...
...Rolland says there is no reason why a Westerner should not understand Gandhi's doctrine as well as Gandhi understands those of our great men for it should not be forgotten that this Asiatic believer has translated Ruskin, and Plato and quotes Thoreau, admires Mazzini, reads Edward Carpenter, and that he is, in short, familiar with the best that Europe and America have produced. According to M. Rolland, Gandhi's fundamental argument is against modern civilization, which he says is civilization in name only and that in reality it corresponds to what ancient Hinduism called the dark ages...
...Montespan" is a three-act drama written about twenty years ago by Romain Rolland, and only recently translated into English by Miss-Helena Van Brugh de Kay, with an introduction by the author for American readers. This introduction is not the least interesting part of the volume. Short as it is, it contains a vigorous, damaging deunuciation of the so-called "classic" ages, with one of which, the reign of Louis XIV, the play itself is concerned. "Epochs of prey", M. Rolland describes them, "a pack of hounds with blind instincts, always straining to escape from the huntsman's leash...
...Montespan", inspired by the famous "Poison Affair", M. Rolland does not pretend to follow exactly the events of history. His object is to create the atmosphere of the decadent court, to develop the characters logically from what is known of them without necessarily adhering to the minor details of fact. Madame de Montespan, for example, is made to take poison and die, in his play; in reality, she survived this episode by twenty-seven years. But no one can read the play and not be convinced that her suicide was the logical, certainly the most artistic ending for her glittering...
...Shearn '23, and J. K. Watson '23. The Lane brothers will constitute the greatest strength of the foils team, and a third man will be chosen in February from the many candidates now competing, of whom the most promising at present are F. M. James Jr. '25 and Rolland Fleer...