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November 12, 1924 THE COMMONWEAL 25 BRIEFER MENTION Curious Clrap:en in...
...Art and opinions arc advanced along radical lines and are what we ordinarily expect of the self-conscious, self-respecting Hebrew...
...The Princess Swallow-Heart is a story to hear over a bowl of milk and porridge in a warm corner of the nursery on a morning at Christrnastide...
...Lynn Thorndike of a highly important work of research—Material for a History of Pope Alexander VI, by the scholarly Mgr...
...Military and Political Study of its Establishment, and formerly contributed frequently to the New Witness...
...Hence, this book of Dr...
...The Menorab Journal (New York) for August-September, 1924, is a magazine highly ctcditable to its editors and contributors...
...poet • dramatist, sod lecturer on Irish literature, Is the author of The Children Who Followed the Piper, sod other books...
...Peter de Roo (liruges, Descl6e de lirouwer, 924...
...Was Mrs...
...Louis: B. Herder Book Company...
...The poet in Padraic Colum carries us back on magic wings and we find ourselves wistfully sighing over vanished days of childhoott Le Correspondant (Parb, France) of October, contains sevcal papers concerned with matters of interest to English and American readers~ There is a thoroughly documented study of the school controversy in Oregon, La Libert~ Scolaire aux Etats-Unis, by William D. Guthrie of the New York Bar...
...Walsh ought to have special value for the educator or for the young person with sufficient conscience regarding his (or her) health and character to listen and profit by the advice of a really great scholar in philosophy as well as medicine...
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...The Peep-Show Man, by Pad raic Colum...
...William Rose BenEt, one of the editors of The Saturday Review of Literature, is the author of Moons of Grandeur...
...The Religious Liberty Amendment" is admirably clarified...
...Finovar of the Fair ~yellds...
...Thomas Walsh...
...Henry Longan Stuart...
...In the chapter regarding the population of our American cities many will be surprised to learn that it was not until the census of z8zo that New York out-distanced Philadelphia as the largest city of our country—Philadelphia having for over thirty years possessed io,ooo inhabitants in excess of her rival...
...CONTRIBUTORS Hoffman Nickerson is the author of The Inquisition...
...We envy the little ones of six and eight years who are ready with their pennies for a peep into his marvelous box...
...Sir Bertram C. A. ~Vindle, foremost of English writera on the relations between science and religion, has written, among many other books, A Century of Scientific Thought K. Dana Skinner was formerly on the editorial staff and Washington correspondent of the Boston Herald...
...He will he the regular dramatic critic of The Commonweal...
...The First Person Singular, and a frequent contrihutor of verse to current pebllcations...
...The learning, timeliness and reserve of Le Conespondant must arouse general admiration...
...and Austin Dobson, Poet and Friend...
...XV kITTEN in the easy charming style for which Dr...
...As a "success book" it will bear comparison with the widespread works of Marsden Swett, with the added advantage that success is interpreted with less emphasis on its materialistic side and greater importance given to the moral ambitions...
...The Captain Kidd Legend" is treated with a proper emphasis on the action of Lord Bellomont, the English governor...
...Padraic Colum...
...New York: D. Appleton and Company...
...catlons...
...the author of Weeping Cross and co~author of Civilization in America...
...Chicago in x8~o appears on the list as the twelfth city in size in America, and only in iSgo becomes the second city in the list, where she still holds the same position...
...The Notes for a Modern History of the Jews, by E. E. C...
...will contribute a series of articles to The Commonweal, of whicirthe first appears in the present Issue...
...He is a contributor on dramatic criticism and historical subjects to Important newspapers and periodicals...
...The Original Ku Klux Klan," and "The Rank of American Cities" furnish very tmely reading...
...TI?HE Commonweal reserves for a future number a review by Dr...
...There is also a highly interesting study of La Secte des Napokoniennes en Russie showing the strange combinations of local religions and occultisrus that occur in the Russian communities...
...poet critic, and authority on Spanish literature, Is author of The Pilgrim kings and Don Folquet...
...The Colonial Irish" are shown to have been more largely of Southern stock than it is customary for our average historian to allow...
...Kathryn White Ryan...
...Success in a New Era, by James I. Walsh...
...125...
...There is little to offend the Gentile mind in the rather large claims some of these writers make for Jewish influence on history and philosophy...
...DL HUMPHREY J. DESMOND discusses in a frank and amiable manner some of the more interesting moot questions in our American history, his topics ranging from the question of naming America to the relation of events of "Our Livelier Presidential Campaigns...
...de Roo, in which the latter takes issue with Gregorovious and Catholic historians like Pastor, who, he thinks, have bowed too weakly to the storm of inuendo and hatred in the chronicles that deal with the figure of Alexander de Ilorgia...
...Thoradike—distinguished among authorities for his History of Mediaeval Europe (1917 and 1920)—will discuss the findings of Mgr...
...November 12, 1924 THE COMMONWEAL 25 BRIEFER MENTION Curious Clrap:en in American History, by Humphrey I. Desmond...
...It contains among other things, excellent articles on Family Endowment and Women in Factory Life, and a very charming interpretation from an English point of view of Louise Imogen Guiney, who, we can assure the author, Miss Em Samson, is a great figure in American letters...
...Surratt Guilty...
...James J. Walsh is distinguished, Success in a New Era proves to be a work of popular scientific advice on the preservation of health and the building up of personal character...
...md Lea Souvenirs d'un Editeur AinEricain, Walter Page...
...It is refined, stimulating and exquisitely feminine, without any frills or foolishness to encourage a misogynist critic...
...is the author of Shining Fields and Dark Towers...
...John Bunker, writer of essays and critical articles for current publi...
...Theodore Maynard...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Des Souvenirs, from the English of the late Joseph Conrad...
...with its mixture of large assertions, ironies and character sketches is extremely ivell done...
...pact, novelist end critic, and author of Our Best Poets and The Divine Adventure, will be a frequent contributor to The Commonweal...
...poet, critic, and recent editor of Voices, is a contributor of short stories to current magmulnes...
...NI R. PADRAIC COLUM has shown his fine story telling qualities often enough for us to be ready with a hearty welcome for The Peep-Show Man...
...The Ca: holic Woman's Outlook (London, England) for October is the second issue of a bi-annual that leaves an acellent impression of the ideals of the body of English women who devote themselves, whole-heartedly, to this work...
...G. K., Chesterton, who will write for The Commonweal, contribute...
...Eleanor Rogers Cot poet and lecturer, has written among other things...
...to this Issue an article in his most vigorous vein...
Vol. 1 • November 1924 • No. 1
