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The article presents information about Bao Dai, a semi-autonomous member of the French Union. Bao Dai was born in 1916 as prince Vinh Thuy, the first son of Khai Dinh, Emperor of Annam. The court of Annam had been implicated in the unsuccessful uprising of 1916, and Albert Sarraut, France's High Commissioner in Indo-China, thought that a pro-French emperor could be molded by having Thuy educated in France. During the most formative years of his life, from the age of six to sixteen, the young prince received the education of a purely decorative French aristocrat.

The article reports on socio-political developments around the world. The honor which has fallen upon the name of scholar of Peru, Antonio Raimondi, exalting him as much as he has distinguished the country in whose service the labors of his life were given, is an example of the just reward of self-sacrificing devotion to a high ideal, notable because the merits of his services were recognized before their fruit had fully matured in the sight of the world and because he had done his work with heroic courage in the face of innumerable difficulties and perils, with no prospect of fortune and uncertain of success and fame. The second volume of Barras's Memoirs is full of details respecting what may be called the domestic life of- the government of the Directory, its gossip makes one think at times of the conversations and stories of the servants in some great house. The police of the Directory were as active in Italy as in France.

The article focuses on results of a study, which was published under the title "The College Influence on Student Character," in March 1959 by the American Council of Education. At the end of the survey the author found students to be a "paradox in parenthesis." The author used the word "parenthesis" because, over and over again college students told the research team that, in their opinion, the content and form of higher education are not sufficiently related to the rest of life, nor is education genuinely relevant to their concerns. Because of this, students tend to regard the four years of college as a parenthesis setting off a time in which they can perhaps enjoy themselves for the last time before "real maturation" sets in.

The article presents information on the long life of the present generation. A doctor in Sweden recently stated that the life expectancy of that country's citizens might be one hundred years by the end of the century. The average age in United States today is seventy years. There are 15,000,000 men and women over sixty-five in the United States today, as compared with 3,000,000 in 1900 and the rate is now increasing at an estimated half million a year which means that approximately 2OO0 people a day are joining the ranks of Americans over sixty-five.

The article gives a description of evaluation of different authors, novelists and short-story writers whose interviews had appeared in "The Paris Review." This evaluation reveals an extreme diversity of characters and talents. The authors presented have come from the ruling class, the middle class or the working class of six different countries. Author Frank O'Connor started life as a gunman, and also Joyce Cary, an author, started his life as a colonial official. Furthermore--any writer--is a person who believes in the magic efficacy of words. That belief is central in any writer's personality. Among those who believe in the strict magic of words, fiction writers are a special type, distinct from the essayists and poets.

The article presents information on various developments related to various issues. The comparative accord with which the Security Council has accepted the U.S. resolution on Greece is more than welcome, though there should be no pretense that the terms of reference are broad enough to enable the United Nations to reach a solution of the real problem of Greece. Accepting the situation in that country as it is now, without reference to original responsibilities, it is certain that the present government is unrepresentative, tyrannical, and incompetent to lead Greece toward a prosperous and democratic way of life.

If Enrico Caruso were alive today he would be seventy-two years old. He died in 1921, at the age of forty-eight, the greatest singer of his own and perhaps of all time. To the people who were fortunate enough to hear him from the stage, he remains, after all these years, a unique recollection; but even for those who know his voice only from recording, it is still a present wonder. In Caruso's case there was, first, the anguish simply of being a singer-of having as one's instrument one's own body, so that added to the not uncommon anxieties for the flesh, there was the uncommon invitation to identify flesh and art.

Presents an account of two natives of Peru, dictator Augusta B. Leguía and poet José Carlos Mariátegui. Similarity in the attitude of dictator Augusta B. Leguía of Peru and Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico towards their occupation; Details on features, dress-up and characteristics of Leguía; Plans of Leguía to utilize the export potential of Peru; Favors on Mariátegui by Leguía; Overview of Mariátegui's trip to Europe; Respect gained by Mariátegui from his contemporaries for his credentials.

This article presents information about socio-political developments around the world as of August 26, 1909. The most recent advices from Stockholm indicate pretty plainly the failure and impending collapse of the Swedish strike. Saint Nicholas for September 1909 prints a number of brief essays by boys and girls, written in a prize competition, upon the theme "My Favorite Season--and Why." Their excellence consists in their spontaneity and in their natural, unsophisticated analysis of their delight in the out-of-doors life. The present races of golfers are among the most equable-tempered and well poised of mortals.

Presents the short story “A Spiritual Drama: The Life of Man,” by Arkadi Averchenko, translated by Jacob Wittmer Hartmann.

Cites the author's views about war. Author's description of the sublimity of war; Discussion of the exaggerated notion of the importance of human life; Acceptance of the inevitableness of war; Consideration of evolution as an orderly progress toward the realization of some arbitrary ideal based upon considerations of individual human wellbeing.

Comments on the democratic attitude towards life of philosopher John Dewey depicted in his published writings. Popularity of the book "Educational Creed"; Philosophy of Dewey challenges the whole machinery of the world of right and wrong, law and order, property and religion and the old techniques by which society is still being managed and regulated; Incapacity of Dewey of imagining his own distinction.

Provides an opinion on the value of human life during war. Platitude expounding that wartime life is cheap; Perspectives of different cultures on war casualties; Enlargement of the value of human life in democracy; Relationship between social reform and the problem of peace; Value of a woman's life and her contribution to peace; Role of men in the industrial world; Investment in human life; Waste of investment in each person with the incidence of war.

Presents an insight into the concept of art in relation to children. Statement that all children are potentially artist; Reference to features of the quarterly review, "Progressive Education"; Description on the status and teaching of art in American schools; Information that the new schools in America view that one does not have to posit a building instinct or an expressing instinct to explain the child's reaction to art; View that art is the topmost expression of life in its moments of creative intensity.

Presents experience of the author regarding his experiment with painting. Information that since boyhood he had an ambition to be a painter because he always liked the life of a painter; Apprehension of the author about women in flesh; Argument that a painter should be the judge of his own work and not embarrass his fellow painters by asking such questions; Advise of the author to his friend regarding one of his paintings; Presents experience of the author regarding his experiment with painting; Information that since boyhood he had an ambition to be a painter because he always liked the life of a painter; Apprehension of the author about women in flesh; Argument that a painter should be the judge of his own work and not embarrass his fellow painters by asking such questions; Advise of the author to his friend regarding one of his paintings; Inheritance of a small fortune to the author from his father's sister.

The life of a college professor, once regarded as one of serenity and security, is anything but that nowadays. He is assailed by preachers and patriots until his only safety lies in not having any opinions and in confining his teaching to the multiplication-table. During the last few years there have been at least three lines of attack upon the independence and self-respect of teachers both in colleges and in the public schools. During and just after participation in the World War there was a surveillance of teachers with a view to driving out those of pro-German, pacifist, or radical sympathies.

This article presents a discussion on life. Initially, one must differentiate must be made between life in the sense of not being physically dead, and life in the sense of awareness and vitality. Obviously, everybody who is not dead is alive. And all experience of alive people is a part of life in its broadest interpretation. But there seems to be an ascending scale of values in life, and somewhere in this scale there is a line below which one more or less exists, and above which one more or less lives. Secondly, one must examine the distinction that is drawn between physical and mental living.

Presents several letters to the editor. Discussion on bicycle in the service of scouting; Comments on human beings and philosophical aspect of life; Discussion on the word "respectable."

The article presents information on two books on W.B.Yeats. The books are "W.B. Yeats: 1865-1939," by Joseph Hone. "The Poetry of W. B. Yeats." by Louis MacNeice. The felicity of the life of a genius can never be recognized until the event of his achievement. His work alone justifies his acts. It is the book of Yeats's life rather than its image that Mr. Hone has set himself to write, as it was the symbolic image, in its fullest derivation and reference, that concerned Mr. MacNeice in his recent study of the poetry.

The article profiles president of Mechanics & Farmers Bank, John H. Wheeler. The bank is located in Durham, North Carolina. It is reported that, Wheeler, who is 56 years old, was born in Durham, is a Negro, and he has participated in range of activities including, as a private business, as a lawyer, as a college trustee, and as a member of several state and national groups.

The article comments on the American reaction to the Palestine remarks made by the British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin at Bournemouth, England. Bevin would have ventured it if he were not casting about for an alibi to cover his own failure to meet the issue. Also when he says that if one has to raise the Arabs' life to the standard of the Jews, one cannot do it if one take away their land. Bevin has demanded to the Jews and Arabs to lay down their arms. Reading this, one realizes how little Bevin has learned from the inquiry, indeed from the long record of British colonial policy, he still believes that order is a prerequisite to policy, an idea easily converted into the theory that order is a substitute for policy.

The article presents information on the author's experience of meeting William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury. Temple's death, the author feels, has robbed Great Britain not only of its ablest and most courageous churchman but of one of the most brilliant of its statesmen. Though the perfection of his gifts was unique, their essential quality was so typically British that an appreciation of the man and his work gives an American the possibility of seeing some important qualities of British life in vivid and personal terms.

Discusses the philosophy of life in the twentieth century. Comment of philosopher William James on the philosophic movement which began in the twentieth century; Possible reaction of a classical philosopher toward the modern philosophy; Reference to the confusion of moral theory by the eulogistic use of the word "life"; Analysis of the theory of a vitalistic intuition superior to knowledge; Discussion of the use of the word "experience" without any ascertainable meaning; Ignorance of the fact that where a diversity of religion exists it is impossible to stop a process of reflection as to which of two conflicting claims is true.

The article discusses the book "What Is Living and What Is Dead of the Philosophy of Hegel," by Benedetto Croce. Among the results of the war is the remarkable extent to which certain philosophical theories, simplified by rumor and reduced almost to the dimensions of a formula, have been indicted as ultimately responsible for all that has happened. This is no doubt in some measure due to a wholesome sense of the power of thought in history—in part it is an expression of the intelligible but entirely erroneous instinct to seek definite and easily distinguishable causes for overwhelming issues.

The article focuses on personal life of Samuel F.B. Morse when he conceived the idea of the electric telegraph. Then in 1832 Morse's life renounced a distinguished past. He was forty-one years old, a successful portrait painter, founder and president of the National Academy of Design. His life had been a broken one. In those days, a portrait painter was perforce an itinerant. He had not been able to live for any long time at home, and after nine short years of married happiness his young wife had been torn from him by sudden death, and their three children had gone to relatives.

The article presents the eleventh of a series of anonymous articles giving the personal backgrounds of a group of distinguished women with a modern point of view. The author's home had in it absolutely no verbotens and our family grammar contained no imperative. The five boisterous children absorbed the spirit of mutual consideration without injunctions or commands. Educational opportunities in the back-water communities where they were obliged to live were so slim that their parents were deeply absorbed in the problem of their education. It was the most logical thing in the world that she should join in the militant suffrage activity at Washington, do her time in jail and win her badge of honor.

The article informs about the life of coal miners. The mine office is a square frame house, three rooms and a front porch, with a broad view of the mountains from three sides; in front are the tipple, the cars being loaded with coal, the shops, the men about their work. One might see Jim Pasko out there, a huge man, walking with a certain jerkiness toward the shaft to be let down into the pit to work. Mike Monarch, one of Jim's buddies, came into the office this morning and borrowed ten dollars from the Super. Mike is a stout Bulgarian who has worked here off and on for a decade.

This article focuses on the people who are blessed with good humor. There are people in the United States who have the enviable privilege of being continuously entertained. They are always sure of at least one thrill or laugh every day the Lord sends. At least thirty times a month they find opportunities for laughter or experience that skipping-a- beat of the heart, the chilly spasm, the catch at the throat, the loss of speech that accompany the honest-to-goodness thrill. They are used to it now. They couldn't escape it and slip into the bored existence of their fellow-citizens even if they wished to. There are those in this group, of course, who have tired of this life of excitement and fun.