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THIS is what is known to trade and criticism as an Irish novel," which means that the prose style is "poetic," that the narrative is threaded with "Irish mysticism," and that the here is a melancholy follow, walking in twilight and yellow fog, and meditating on old, unhappy far-off things. There is a thin and rather outre plot, not much narrative, but considerable dissection of mood and temperament...
...guessing rightly, but struggling with words and phrases which stretched like impossible pagodas into a German sky. Stormy, ill-tempered, tenacious to truth and error alike, once he had spoken but yet so glorious in his failure as brave as splendid, as startling as a Norse god in his twilight. "Past and Present," one of the fifty volumes left behind by this man whose cardinal virtue was silence, will be discussed this morning at 9 by Professor Rollins...
Thus did a company that was the epitome of U. S. corporate management 25 years ago pass through the metamorphoses typical of the last decade to a publicly owned enterprise with a hired management. And thus did a fortune founded in autocratic individualism fade into the twilight reserved for minority stockholders...
...literati of the East no longer suport it as they did, and the time-honored subscription blank has been inherited in great part by the school-teachers and cultured ladies of the Middle West. The Atlantic has existed for some time in its own by no means ineffectual twilight, and even when it discussess modern problems, it seems to be at one saving remove from reality...
...half-dozen little Kansas towns, just before each sundown last week, a great melancholy voice was heard wailing sad cowboy songs through the ochre twilight. Citizens investigating the cause of this portent, successively at Liberal, Coldwater, Salina, Herington, discovered a strange motorcade called "Ammunition Train No. I." The sides of a motor van had been let down to form a speaking platform. Generators supplied current for a battery of lights and enough power to send the cowboy songster's voice twanging out over a quarter-mile radius. Parked nearby was a golden brown, 16-cylinder Cadillac. Kansans whose first...