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...Problems of a transient nature between the two countries can be solved successfully by wise statesmanship. We need fear nothing from these situations. However violent the propaganda which may arise, the policy of my Government will be consistently for permanent peace and lasting friendship with no idea, no dream, of war with America...
Chicago is a city of many suburbs. Chicago depends upon its suburbs as few cities do. Suburbanites are its big buyers in the department stores. Suburbanites support its theatres. Suburbanites buy many bales of its newspapers. There is a big transient population from the surrounding agricultural districts; but without the suburbanites Chicago would be at a loss...
...cast about for some means with which to quiet such unworthy suspicions. Alighting happily upon the already miserable Crown Prince, they suggest his temporary attendance at an agricultural course at Brealau, and remind him of the advantages which should result to his estate at Oala from a sincere, if transient interest therein...
...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...
Indeed throughout the book Mr. Sergel suffers from the racial diseases of all the modern realists. He is determined to hear no good, see no good, speak no good. He recognizes no sense of happiness, no joy of living, save of an artificial and transient sort. Even his love between men and women never rises above the flesh. He measures the sensations of the lower middle class on the scale of his own--as he would have us believe--hyper-sensitive palate and nostril. In his eyes they know no beauty whatsoever, and no pleasure but that which he takes...