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...deviation from the real subject, which is the life-drama of Plato and Socrates, but it is an "aside" that intensifies the interest of the main theme. Perhaps Solovyev is so stimulating a critic because he was himself a poet, even a mystic, as well as "second to A. Tolstoy alone in the art of nonsense verse," to quote from Prince Misky again...
...into difficulties almost at once by mingling on the walls of his church the sayings of Henry George, Count Tolstoy and Jesus Christ. Soon thereafter he leased the church for 99 years to a theatre company, with the result that the old Vine Street Church is now a burlesque house. This deal resulted in Preacher Bigelow's being ousted from the Congregational ministry. But seldom did a season pass that Herbert Bigelow did not make some sort of spectacular news for Cincinnati papers. In 1912 he was president of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, sponsoring initiative, referendum, municipal home rule...
...yesterday. Though past-partisans might not allow Robert Graves's Claudius books, Alfred Neumann's The Devil, Lion Feuchtwanger's Power and Josephus, Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers the palm over such classics as Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Flaubert's Salammbo, critical consensus would be that the modern exponents are obviously better grade than run-of-the-mine romanticists like Walter Scott, Charles Reade et al. Lion Feuchtwanger's second volume on the Jewish Historian Josephus does not let his colleagues...
...marriage and many another subject in the practiced manner of a platform denouncer. Dr. Maier quotes from such sources as Dancing Master William P. Rivers, Raymond Duncan, Proverbs, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, John Bunyan, Robert Briffault, Dora Russell, Mme Blavatsky, Mary Baker Eddy, Humbert Wolfe, Francis Bacon, Solomon, Dr. Johnson, Tolstoy, Cardinal Faulhaber, Kathleen Norris, Prince von Bülow, Martin Luther, Arthur Davison Ficke, Erdman Harris, The Spirit of Lord Northcliffe, Swedenborg, Joseph Choate and countless others-all out of one of the most remarkable memories and most capacious files in existence...
...Anna Karenina" at the University this week is certainly not Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." True, the essentials of the plot remain, and such changes as have been made are justified by the necessity of condensation. But the spirit of the original has been lost and the characters vitiated beyond recognition. Only Anna and Alexei Karenin retain a spark of life; the others are bloodless lay-figures. Least excusable is the mutilation of Konstantin Levin--in the book a sensitive, passionate, inarticulate, self-contradictory idealist, but reduced in the picture to a formal and awkward lover. Frederick March was no more...