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...Macmillan ($2.00). In this novel in free verse, Miss Sinclair appears to have created a new literary form. It is a dramatic narrative poem recounting Elizabeth's love for the poet Victor−a love which lasts, even when Victor deserts her for a younger woman, and glows triumphant when he returns to her, disillusioned, blind. At times the unusual form of its telling seems to create a strained, disjointed effect, with false emphasis. But for the most part, the lines flow with vivid, restrained and often impassioned beauty...
...intimate of the intriguing and lovely Neapolitan Queen, Marie Caroline, sister to Marie Antoinette of tragic memory, and lastly to be the passion and inspiration of Nelson, hero of Trafalgar. Illiterate, geistlos, breathtakingly beautiful, object of adoration and of scorn, Emma Hamilton's star flashed through triumphant, troublous skies, and two centuries have not quenched its sullied splendor...
...leader of the Alabama delegation rose, with a triumphant modulation, with linked sweetness long-drawled out reiterated: "A-la-bam-ah?twenty-foah votes foah Un-da-wood...
Borne high amid triumphant cheers...
...smallest village, the plainest home, give ample space for the resources of the college trained woman." It was Alice Freeman Palmer, star leader in the advancement of highest education for women, who put in these words the philosophy that guided her life from its humble beginning to its triumphant conclusion...