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There is a clamor in these times among the newspapers and the vulgus for the business men in government offices rather than the old-time politicians. The businessmen are answering the call and carrying in with them under their arms business methods and business maims. Among the revolutionary theories propounded is that of Mr. Davis, Secretary of Labor--that it will pay to advertise politics as well as patent medicine...
Professor Janko Lavrin of University College, Nottingham, provides an informative introduction, though he makes no effort "ad captandum vulgus" by mentioning what is likely to win the vast majority of readers: Solovyev's criticism of "Hamlet", in which is demonstrated (as indispensable to the tragic venture of the play) the capital importance of Hamlet's belief in blood-vengeance, despite his Christian faith, and of his "general incapacity to put into execution any law." This is a most ingenious criticism of Shakespere, and it will serve to remind one that Russians have been unorthodox critics from the beginning -- a fact...
Inaugurations are usually attended with pomp and circumstance of some kind, often of the kind which causes the vulgus to "throw their sweaty night caps up." But the pomp attending the inauguration of Dean Comstock as president of Radcliffe will be derived solely from the impressiveness of the assembly and of the occasion. In this age of enlightenment when greater and greater numbers of young women are bent upon more than an ordinary education, the post of president of a woman's college has become no longer a sinecure but a position of great responsibility and labor. Because of this...
...improved with performances like "Scaramouche", and "The Hunch back of Notre Dame", adapted from novels of proved worth. "Chauve-Souris" and "Loyalties" are only unusually good example of the recent tenor of productions and the critic who is fair enough to realize this will, instead of joining the vulgus in deploring the decadence of the American stage, look to the future with high hopes...
There is a clamor in these times among the newspapers and the vulgus for the business men in government offices rather than the old-time politicians. The business men are answering the call and carrying in with them under their arm business methods and business maxims. Among the revolutionary theories propounded is that of Mr. Davis, Secretary of Labor,--that it will pay to advertise politics as well as patent medicine...