Henry Watterson: “Whatever may be thought of them on this side of the Atlantic, their success in England was undeniable.”

But he can hardly be called a sentimentalist, as Greeley was, and there is nothing but sentiment—gush and gammon—in the proposed League of Nations.

But my face in the glass I’ll serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow— That this worn-out old stuff which is thread-bare to-day Shall become everlasting to-morrow.

Yet it is after all a figure of speech not a personality that appeals to our sense of duty without necessarily engaging our affection.

Too many churches—or, shall I say, church fabrics—breeding controversy where there should be agreement, each sect and subdivision fighting phantoms of its fancy.