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...first a fort, built by the Government in 1807 on a rocky, offshore island in Manhattan harbor. Ceded to the city some 15 years later, it became an auditorium, Castle Garden, connected to the mainland by a pier.* At Castle Garden such notables as Lafayette, Louis Kossuth, Edward VII (then Prince of Wales) were publicly welcomed. There Jenny Lind made her U.S. debut...
Victoria's Heir, a life of Edward VII, is almost worthy to be a sequel to Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria, for the stuffy, portentous Victorian age seems peculiarly able to inspire some of the best writing of the 20th Century. The late Lytton Strachey's roguish mandarinism seemed gently but fatally borne along on the undertow of a dying civilization. George Dangerfield writes with the desperate blandness of a man who has heard even in the U.S. (where he has resided since 1931) the thud of London's falling walls and the stridency of gutting...
...much more truly "the Prisoner of the Vatican" than his predecessors were from 1870 to 1929. The Vatican radio and the Vatican daily Osservatore Romano are now on an almost exclusive diet of non-controversial items. If Hitler wins, Pius XII may face as unpleasant an ordeal as Pius VII, whom Napoleon hustled away from Rome and kept a prisoner in France from...
...VII. Labor is preoccupied with its two great aims: more and better jobs after the war, and more say in national policies and industrial management. But the war has never been explained to the American working...
...rule in his own right, he dismissed Bismarck two years later, in 1890. Historians blame his dropping of the canny old Chancellor for the fate that ultimately humbled Germany, and certainly Wilhelm's arrogance and indiscretion made him many enemies. He got huffy with his Uncle Bertie (Edward VII of Great Britain) after his father's funeral, and in 1896 enraged all Britain by sending a telegram of sympathy to the Boer leader, Oom Paul Kruger. He refused to renew the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia, through which Bismarck had protected Germany's rear for adventures in Western...