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Methodist Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (1858-1902), described as "bold as a lion, tender as a woman, aflame with zeal," found Korea reactionary and pagan, gave it a school, a religious newspaper, a tract society, a printing and publishing house...
...vastness of the ocean tract, the force of the one vessel on the conduct of the other, caused the Vagabond to muse further on the underlying principles of the occurrence. What rules to govern the vessels of the seven seas? How determine the rights of yonder tramp steamer standing out to the Shoals? The bookcase resumed its original form again to answer these questions, and the Vagabond stared on, until from a maze of crimson jackets and calfskin bindings the words came out--Mare Liberum, Grotius...
Even Old Testament students might not recognize Author Revere's grotesque title, ripped from a verse of Ecclesiastes: "And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bonds." Not so much a tract on marital infidelity as a diatribe against the grasping mistress, it may be of interest to U. S. husbands in the same pickle as Revere's hero...
Scholarly, tract-penning Hon. Mr. Justice Albert Bathurst Piddington, president of New South Wales's Industrial Commission, startled the Empire last week by penning a new tract to prove that His Majesty's Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, acted unconstitutionally fortnight ago when he dismissed Laborite State Premier John Thomas Lang, famed for repudiating New South Wales's debts (TIME...
...Parade (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an honest and clever adaptation of Upton Sinclair's sloppy tract on Prohibition (TIME, Sept. 28). Without the radicalism of its original, it delineates the evils of drink and shows, without partiality Wet or Dry, that guzzling to excess brings misery. The heroine (Dorothy Jordan) is the daughter of a charming but besotted Southern gentleman (Lewis Stone). His suicide and the inherited alcoholism of her brother are enough to make her drink shy. She has an even better reason. In Manhattan, where she finds her brother drunk in a hotel, she meets a youth...