Foreign News: Chamber Meets

Meeting in the Palais-Bourbon last week after four months' recess, the French Chamber of Deputies:

¶ Mourned the death last week of the Borah of France, Senator Victor Berard, 67, Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee. He, the scholarly assistant director of the Ecole dcs Hantes Etudes, resembled Senator Borah in exceedingly few respects. After 44 years of preparation, Senator Berard published recently his great tome Did Homer Live? Weighing the evidence pro & con with vast erudition, he cautiously concluded that Homer in all probability did live.

"The Odyssean poem."...

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