… William Clissold. By H. G. Wells. New York: George H. Doran Company. 2 vol., $5.00. The Silver Stallion. By James Branch … is justified. Cabell is not talking religion only in this medieval burlesque. He is talking broader satire, poking fun … But this is no point for discussion; it is one of the minor points in the story that are to be noticed. And in “The …
Fiction
… furniture. The boys watched in startled silence as three soldiers alighted beside the truck, all wearing fatigues whose … on the courtyard cement. (On those nights when her cooked meals couldn’t serve as birdfeed, she reached for a tin of red … off the made-up bed. He would give Big Mama no reason to complain. Not about noisemaking, rough play, delaying her …
… momentum. Though Mohammad Reza was a devout Muslim and had come from a renowned family of martyrs and academics, he … and fair approach to government. He designed Mousavi’s website and directed much of his online campaigning from … Wednesday when we set out together to return home to our studies, to our lives in England. The same Wednesday when they …
… man— “and what’s even worse, a successful one!”—in 1926, he set down on paper his reflections on business life as … D. Boyd) is the wife of a Boston physician. She has studied at Boston University and at Wellesley, where she … knocked down by an automobile in Chicago. Since then he has completed a book on Charles Dickens, which is ready for …
… above all others, George Wythe. He had pursued his studies with a thoroughness most unusual but entirely consonant … under the regal government, had many very vicious points which urgently required reformation, and I thought I … of the existing code of law and it was passed on October 26, three days after the final reading of his bill for the …
Essays
… The first is that an individual, echoing society’s compacts, can be in error, complicit with evil. If there is … say the universalists. What we call virtue in Sparta is also virtue in Athens. If murder is wrong in one city, it is … justice, and moral conscience. We need to add one more ingredient to this already fulsome mix—namely, whether the moral …