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With the material assets of a close alignment with South America so clear and near-at-hand, there still remains the value of several close friends in case the time should ever come to defend American shores. With a coast line of some three thousand miles and a comparatively small standing army, the United States could do worse than make friends with the more powerful nations to the South. America looms great as a world-power today, but with the stead-fast backing of Latin-America she would be, not seem, invincible. And though the present conference be limited...
...best in the perishable pages of popular magazines, seems a little pretentious in a formal volume of collected works. The collected poems of Dorothy Parker, although they hold up better than most, are no exception. Epigrams that seemed sprightly when they first appeared and were quoted by a thousand after-dinner speakers tend to look lonely and sallow printed as poetry on a wide-margined page. Not So Deep As a Well includes all of Dorothy Parker's poems except a few that she did not wish reprinted, reveals her expert craftsmanship, the narrow range of her humor...
Experiments in fiction have a double-acting influence. When they succeed, as Joyce succeeded in Ulysses, in enabling the author to state truths that could not be expressed in a traditional form, they encourage a thousand writers to work in the same field. When they fail, as Wyndham Lewis failed in The Childermass, the unread wreckage serves to warn later writers away from that intellectual reef...
...Hsiung has committed to letters an old Chinese play that has been handed down by word of mouth for sixth-six generations, or some two thousand years. Primitive conceptions of romance apparently have much in common, for the story contains such supposedly Occidental elements as the third daughter of the family's being far and away the best; a princess's being mortally bored with her noble suitors and throwing herself into the arms of a commoner; and a wanderer's returning in unrecognizable pomp after having departed in lowliness...
...Emperor Napoleon now, he quarrelled with Czar Alexander I, he undertook to reprimand that monarch. He won the battle of Borodino but lost three hundred eighty thousand men. In October 1813 he lost at Leipsic to a Russian-Prussian-Austrian coalition. His enemies marched into Paris, the Emperor left for Elba...