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...difficult to select extracts from his various articles as the humor is so closely woven into the whole of each. His struggles with a typewriter--which by the way is "Ami et a mijge imean a midgt, made of alumium."--renders one helpless with mirth; while his essays on The Grasshopper, The Art of Poetry, and About Bathrooms, are inimitable. Their humor is somewhat more restrained than that of A Criminal Type, from which we quoted above, as also is that of Reading Without Tears: but perhaps for this very reason they are even more delightful and valuable. For impertinent...
...doorway. Spirits, real and figurative, flit in and out; the souls of the departed are invoked as the curtain rises, and they answer the call in full person, to the discomfiture of the mediums and the three-act merriment of the audience. The comic situation is quickly and simply woven, exposition coming in each case just enough ahead of action to make it intelligible. Jimmie Gubbins, reported dead by the indefatigable War Office, returns to Lunnon with his American pal, equally dead, and wanted besides in America for embezzlement (of which, strange to say, he is really guilty); with them...
...basis of what has gone before is entirely unsafe. For we live in the age of geographical-graphical distribution of industry, all parts of the globe being interdependent for the commodities of life, as well as for science and the arts. Australia supplies the wool that is spun and woven in England; Canada grows the wheat that Belgium consumes; American architects are rebuilding France; while Vienna sends her greatest surgeon to practice in New York. The principle of every nation for-itself has gone; just as individual craftsmanship gave way to large-scale production, so the group of nations that...
...merit equal attention. It is a three-act comedy, first produced in Spain in 1901, but translated into English by John Garrett Underhill only a few months ago. Although of decided Spanish atmosphere, the play has universal appeal by reason of its careful character delincation and its interesting story woven through with witty dialogues...
...their airmen that the French did that last month's tremendous work so successfully. At one point, where an important road ran for a mile in the sight of the Germans, the French constructed a barrier some twenty feet high, made of branches and leaves woven through a wire screen, thus effectually shutting off all view for the entire mile...