Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which have been taking place, and deduced from these the forces which still are active in causing wars, and those whose activity is dying out. Dynastic wars are no longer found, and religious wars are becoming fewer. Wars for new territory are still prevalent, the war between Italy and Tripoli being an example; and wars caused by the ruling of a people by aliens still continue. Another potent cause of war is the neglect of the people by despotic governments...
...deal directly with material inaccessible to him here, but also opens up new vistas to the general student of ancient history, or literature, or art. He has all the concrete originals before him: Rome and Pompeii are near at hand; and the recent striking excavations at Cyrene in Tripoli are not faraway...
Prize Poem on "Tripoli...
...chief distinction of an issue which is on the whole above the average is the publication of Mr. F. L. Allen's Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize Poem on "Tripoli." Mr. Allen has wisely limited himself to a single aspect of the Italian Turkish war--the crime of Italy; and in verses of a compelling rhythm and an accent of fine earnestness he prophesies the price that Rome shall...
...verse which was always the Monthly's strongest point is in this number unimportant. Gilkey's "Tripoli" is not of his best; it seems perfunctory, and has not beauty or strength to save it. "At a House Party," by Clarence Britten is an attempt to tell one of the author's too-subtle, evanescent short stories in verse; it does not "get there" enough to make it quite worth while. Mr. Thayer's "Adieu" is graceful and meaningless; the "Thoreau" of Rollo Britten is the best verse in the paper. It says something with force and phrasing. Paul Marriet...