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...significance of Mr. Belloc's estimate depends some-what upon the significance of Mr. Belloc, and that is a matter of opinion...
...silk hat shining, a collar of some-what exaggerated height, a cutaway coat tightly buttoned...
...result, said Dean Collie, would be a kind of ethnological laboratory, the composition of which would be some-what as follows: American students, 40%; Europeans, 20; Asiatics, 20; South Americans, 10; Africans, 10. The plan is interesting, but its success as regards peace would depend upon the extent to which it was adopted by other American colleges, and by colleges the world over...
...satire and its refreshing common sense. Sancho, while governor of the Island of Barataria, deals out justice after the manner of Solomon; sparkling epigrams fall from his lips in scores; his plans for preserving peace are extraordinarily like those of the winner of the Bok Peace Prize, although simpler and some-what more practicable. But withal, the strain of governing is too much for his kindly soul, he gladly relinquishes the throne to the true Duke who, we are made to feel, has learned a valuable lesson during Sancho's brief reign...
...Significance. In Riceyman Steps, Mr. Bennett successfully re-turns to the rich, discursive, detailed manner of Clayhanger and The Old Wives' Tale. A slighter book than these, it is nevertheless quite as able. The bare outline of the plot necessarily makes the novel sound some-what squalid and overly grim?but it is neither. There is much humor in it, excellent portraiture, great fidelity to life. The years have not diminished Mr. Bennett's extraordinary curiosity about practically everything and person in this transient world...