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...Neuvo Diario, principal Caracas journal: " This atrocious crime, which stands in the darkest colors in the annals of Venezuela, cannot have been by the hand of a Venezuelan, because such a vile and monstrous thought could not by any possibility enter Venezuelan psychology, which is the enemy of darkness and cowardice...
...Wilhelm's writings: The following are some of the annotations which the ex-Kaiser wrote on various diplomatic despatches. Referring to Sir Edward Grey: "The ignoble clown! Vile dog's excrement! England alone bears the responsibility for war or peace and it is no longer we!" Later on: "What a low cheat! The fellow is insane or an idot.' Of the King of Italy he notes: "The rascal! The King has not yet answered me even! " Later: " So our allies are betraying us also." About Giolitti: "The unbelievable scoundrel...
...Typee" and "Omoo" were gateways to wonderland in our youth, opening upon a region "where every prospect pleases" and only in the eyes of the European missionary is man ever vile. Melville, perhaps, discovered to literature a whole new demesne for the imagination to conjure with. Charles. Warren Stoddard bore his testimony to the passing of a Polynesian paradise; Robert Louis Stevenson died "under the wide and starry sky" where he passed his latter days; Jack London, Safroni Middleton, Rupert Brooke, paid tribute each in his own specie; Paul Gauguin painting and drinking absinthe to the end, seeking relief from...
Again, it is just as well not to say too much on D'Annunzio before the war. The facts of his vile existence are there, if anyone wants them. Any number of travellers in Italy will testify to that. Yet, it is almost as bad to believe what insidious press dispatches have to say on this Italian, nay, international outlaw. And so is the intelligent public, as usual, caught between two fires...
...want to protest first against a Harvard publication descending to such a low level of deceney as to attack a Harvard instructor in so personal and disrespectful a way. Vile slander such as the Lampoon has indulged in had better not appear in print, both for the sake of Harvard's self-respect and reputation...