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...people who are not accustomed to it office is a very heady wine. Let Ramsay MacDonald wrap a wet towel round his brow and think...
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE-E. F. Benson-Doran ($2.00). The last word in literary delirium tremens. A collection of stories that would make a ghost blanch with horror and wrap his white sheets closer about him for protection. Disinterred corpses, supernatural beings, voices from the grave, razors dripping blood, coffins that won't stay underground-till the palsied reader dare not make a dash to negotiate that dark hall which leads to bed and safety. One is left with the conviction that Author Benson must still be sitting up somewhere. How did he ever dare go to bed after writing...
...Typifying these qualities are the fine group in the Metropolitan, including Swimmers, full-length nude boys seen through transparent green water; After the Bath, a young woman emerging from the sea in a clinging yellow bathing suit, while her swain stands behind, holding a white sheet in which to wrap her; Beaching the Boat, Valencia, peasant sailors guiding three yoke of brown oxen, dragging the full-bellied sailboat through the surf. Sorolla is also represented in the Luxembourg, the Berlin National Gallery, the Venice, Madrid and Buenos Aires Museums, the Chicago Art Institute, and in many private collections...
...boxes. Precautions were necessary. The officials ordered a force of soldiers to the opera house to search all who entered, and further gave forth the regulation that no one might go into the auditorium with a cloak or coat, since such were adapted to conceal bombs. Every wrap must be checked at the cloak room...
California is overwhelmingly in favor of a World Court and sentiment is running strongly against ' those isolationists who, in a spirit of intense egotism and narrowness would wrap the American flag about them and cry " economic, industrial peace," when there is no peace.' Irvine L. Lenroot (R.), Senator from Wisconsin, told a representative of The Christian Science Monitor here...