" Mr. Franklin Fullaway, following a certain modern fashion, introduced into life by twentieth-century company promoters and magnates of the high finance, had established his business quarters at his hotel.

If the invention of gunpowder and printing in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries presaged the Reformation of the sixteenth, and if the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth was the forerunner of political revolutions throughout the Western World, we may well, after the mechanical and economic cataclysm of the nineteenth, cease wondering that twentieth-century society should be radical.

THE VICTORIAN AGE, 1837-1900 X. TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF AUTHORS AND THEIR CHIEF WORKS INDEX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS: 1. Woden.

How does this cycle still influence twentieth-century ideals?

Twentieth-century dreams of social justice are not more vivid and absorbing than Sir Thomas More's.

It is impossible to criticize Elizabethan plays properly from the point of view of the twentieth-century stage.

[Footnote 19: For full titles, see p. 6.] CHAPTER X: TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE Interest in the Present.

The diversity of taste in the wide circle of twentieth-century readers has encouraged authors of both the realistic and the romantic schools.

" His poem, The Machine, awakens sympathy for the printer of Christmas story books and reveals Gibson as the twentieth-century Thomas Hood of The Song of the Shirt.

For other twentieth-century essays, see the preceding bibliography and the paragraph following this.

Apparently one of the most marked requirements of our twentieth-century civilization is that man shall be readily able to extend the day far into the night.

"Kill or Cure" might have been the character of the healing art, but certainly specialists had not invented our appendicitis and other fashionable twentieth-century physical fashions!

Please don't recommend me!" Both laughed again softly, looking fairly at each other in understanding, twentieth-century fashion.

Those public men of the South who have not been daring or heedless enough to defy the ideals of twentieth-century civilization and of modern humanitarianism and philanthropy, find themselves in the embarrassing situation of preaching one thing and praying for another.

Conversely, a transplanted twentieth-century child would resist infectious disease better than the other children in the Stone Age, and might, as he grew up, be found to have a rather exceptionally colourless and adaptable character.

Twentieth-century American poetry.

Our more perfect union: from eighteenth-century principles to twentieth-century practice, By Arthur Norman Holcombe.

Some seventeenth-century worthies in a twentieth-century mirror.

Twentieth-century Italian art.

The point really is the enthusiasm of the audience, because it is an enthusiasm that in these sophisticated, twentieth-century days is simply not to be found in any other country in Europe.

Certain questions will be raised as to what constitutes a home and a shelter for the family in the twentieth-century sense of both family and shelter.

The housing of the twentieth-century family means location, central and fashionable.

I am sorry for the twentieth-century grandparents if they are obliged to live in a flat with the twentieth-century child; some readjustment of manners and ideals must be made before such living will be comfortable, and it seems as if they are better apart until the new order is accepted or modified.

" When the real twentieth-century house is put up our young engineer and college instructor will be willing to pay $400 to $500 rent, because wages and running expenses will be $100 less and the company owning the houses will not expect more than 4%, largely because repairs will be less and permanence of tenure more assured.

Twentieth-century Inventions: a Forecast.