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'[Robert] Aickman said [W.H. Mallock's book "The New Republic [...]] was "much more than the clever satire on a group of famous men that it appears to be" because "behind the follies and light caricatures which are the ostensible subject-matter, one feels, though in the most delicate way, the tragedy, futility, and sad beauty of man's aspirations, especially at their highest.'