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Benin today is part of British Nigeria, a prosperous city of 35,000 blacks with paved highways and scarcely a trace of the old City of Blood. Under British guidance a king still rules there. Though he affects the coral headdress of his ancestors and a curved executioner's sword still precedes him wherever he goes, he wears gold-rimmed spectacles, speaks with an Oxford accent, and was discovered last year seated in a rocking chair, reading Lord Chesterfield's Letters...
...them, and spent his last two francs to buy them a drink of rum. Readers of From Rousseau to Proust can determine how stimulating these international contacts were from the occasional reminiscences that figure in other essays in the book. Although it is in general an attempt to trace the tradition that Rousseau started through French literature, it is primarily of value for its incidental insights, since the essays, written at different periods, tend to become repetitious, and since Ellis' underlying argument is not convincingly proved. Ellis considers Rousseau one of the most influential men in history. He carefully...
...emotions of the hand that strikes it." Thus the intellectual conflicts of his time moved him as other men are moved by pain or fear, compelled him to state simple, fundamental truths, although he suffered the torments of the damned in doing so. Remaining ten essays in the volume trace the Rousseau tradition through the careers of Restif de la Bretonne, Alexandre de Tilly, Hugo and others to its modern representative in Marcel Proust. Restif, "the gutter Rousseau," wrote the 18th Century equivalent of True Confession stories, carried Rousseau's ideas to the logical absurdity of idealizing prostitution...
...morning last week Herbert Hoover, returning to California after a tour of the East, arrived in Chicago. Knowing the best place to find him, newshawks marched into the office of Capitalist Arch Wilkinson Shaw, great & good Hoover friend. No trace of Mr. Hoover was to be seen but much in evidence was Mr. Hoover's traveling companion, Ben S. Allen, onetime Associated Pressman and Wartime assistant to Hoover in Belgium. Ben Allen, whose most notable job was press-agenting the Hoover Food Administration, passed out a typewritten Hoover statement...
However, it was the landscape etchings that have since proved the most sought after. Taking "The Three Trees," done in 1643, as an example, it will be interesting to trace the value attached to it as the years went by, as well as the different nations whose exchange was used. It sold for eight pounds, eight shillings in 1798; four pounds, four shillings in 1834; 120 florins in 1847; 170 pounds in 1893; 12,600 francs in 1909; 6100 marks in 1909; and 1155 pounds...