A rent strike for the last year by tenants of the Ansonia Hotel, at Broadway and 73d Street, was settled. . . . Tenants complained about incoveniences arising from the new owners' attempts to renovate.

Philosophers, Socrates continues, try to dissever the soul from communion with the body, whereas other people think that life is not worth living for a man who has ‘no sense of pleasure and no part in bodily pleasure’.

Lightning leaned forward, falling into the tale as Gypsies did, his attention keenly focused as Traveler went on in dreamsome sort of way.

These mementoes or memorials [sculptural national monuments], though in the present age the unphilosophical and sciolistic spirit of some have led them to regard with contempt this method of honouring the illustrious great, excite a laudable admiration for the service or benefit to which they testify, and are living realities to perpetuate at once the respect entertained by the nation, both for the individual himself and the performance that has entitled him to their gratitude.