I am not referring to living authors least of all to that flamingo of letters who for the last decade or so has been a wonder to our island birds. Nevertheless we cannot suppress all curiosity, or help asking one another, What is your dream-your ideal? What is your News from Nowhere, or, rather, what is the result of the little shake your hand has given to the old pasteboard toy with a dozen bits of colored glass for contents? And, most important of all, can you present it in a narrative or romance which will enable me to pass an idle hour not disagreeably? How, for instance, does it compare in this respect with other prophetic books on the shelf? The vast, unbounded prospect lies before us, but, as the poet mournfully adds, clouds and darkness rest upon it.

Our mental atmosphere surrounds and shuts us in like our own skins no one can boast that he has broken out of that prison. The picture put before us is false we knew it would be false before looking at it, since we cannot imagine what is unknown any more than we can build without materials.

Danielle Spencer, a finance graduate whose UA experience is paying dividends.Romances of the future, however fantastic they may be, have for most of us a perennial if mild interest, since they are born of a very common feeling-a sense of dissatisfaction with the existing order of things, combined with a vague faith in or hope of a better one to come.Elaine Smith, who is earning her first bachelor’s degree at 77.LeAnna Roberts, who is earning her bachelor’s degree at the age of 16.Jayna Enguita, a chemistry and chemical engineering major who waltzed her way to the top.

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A Crystal Age by William Henry Hudson