The Quiet Corner
November 26, 1924 THE COMMONWEAL THE QUIET CORNER I counsel thee, shut not th7 heart nor thy library.—C....
...Skinner's first contribution to The CommonweaL Ammus Cot.toit is s contributor to Important reviews and the author -caL Harps Huag'up In Babylon...
...I bear...
...Yet perversely he seems to enjoy our society, and to ('And some inexplicable attraction in our ideas...
...It seems to me that the most interesting thing in the last number of The Commonweal—"began Professor Herecicus, pausing significantly, and causing a stir of apprehension, tinged with amusement, in the Calvere Club's quiet corner...
...These new-fangled subscicuces are deadly...
...He thinks we are obscurantists, ultramoncanes, reactionaries, mediaevaliscs, foes of freedom, obstaSes on the Path of Progress, and other more or less dreadful things...
...JULES Doss, the distinguished French essayist, psicholog ut sod poet...
...George Moore the man is depicted with a masterly precision of which the keynote may be found in the following phrases: 'Gratitude, being a virtue of the moral world, is nor his talent'—for Mr...
...NEW CONTRiBUTORS .JovrANNLa 10503N53N Is the Danish author of many well-hnown studies of the life and times of St...
...And soon, alas, that educated faculty may die out, among us in America...
...While just praise is bestowed upon Mr...
...C. Huxav j Porno Is professor of political science at Princeton and the author of epresentatare GorerfimeaL Div...
...It is the most remarkable, out-of-the-ordinary, wellwritten, and well thought-out thing I've read in many a day...
...So we were glad when Dr...
...Tictivillus, that impish page boy, who is suspected of clandestine dealings with the K. K. K., drew near expectantly...
...Ah, but in this season of the year, at least, there's always cider," said Hereticus, who on this subject is soundly orthodox...
...Edith Wharton...
...I have found a pearl in the dusty purlicus of journalism...
...If, then, you have not read Sherman P. Smart's essay on George Moore, in Books by all means hasten to do so...
...Francim of Assisi Kr...
...My Baltimore correspondent avers that the following carol was heard to issue, somewhat rowdily, from the jury room...
...I've been going over the last issues of the New Republic, The Nation, The Saturday Review, Books, and, really...
...Eleven percent of alcohol Will never lead to any brawl— So we, the jury, one and all, Hands all around, and with a will, Give: "John PA Hill...
...This Is Mrs...
...it is horiible, but V think it t~6 'be the 'triM porttai&of George 81 Moore—a man to whom, finally, only two things seem to matter: his bodily sensations, and the ink with ivhich he records those sensations...
...Egan in his Recollections as told by Mrs...
...I do not vouch for the fact...
...Yes," the ocher Englishman answered, "it's their Indian blood...
...Hill !" ft ft ft The whole group, Dr...
...MAsoAs.rr Hua...
...Moore's marvelous writing, 'The most subtly fascinating refeccion that English palaces hwe been invited to taste in years...
...The foreman, you'll remember, asked the judge to send a jug of Mr...
...SKIMMER...
...Angelicus, in his sonorous yoke, broke in before Hereticus could resume, saying: "But let us stop talking, for a while at least, about ourselves, arid the good things in The Commonweal, or—" with a cock of one wise eye at Hereticus—"the poor things...
...Obsessive egotism is the plague of all editors and writers...
...Distilled spirits he thinks to be only dubiously Christian...
...Let us fight that swollen, monstrous vice—the true leprosy, or, anyhow, the flatulence, of the soul...
...Angelicus leading, sang the toast at once, so noisily that if a really Earnest Foreigner (one of the many who so closely observe and who so voluminously report upon the eccentric behavior of Americans) had been among us taking notes, he might perhaps have formed the same opinion as that expressed by an English visitor to New York in the quaint days described by Mrs...
...He is even pro-orthodox, believing only in ante-Reformation beverages like wine, niead, beer, and cider...
...We won't wholly succeed—the Lord help us, no— but the effort will be healthful...
...In that period, it seems, the fashion in house furnishings "decreed crimson draperies and much black walnut...
...He does not share our beliefs...
...We relish his astringent, if sometimes rather vague and emotional, fulminations, but on this occasion, so soon after the appearance of our second number, we much preferred listening to the complimentary letters which the Business Manager was reading...
...I wish to share my pleasure in it...
...Ommuna CALLACIu,e, repreuntatin among the younger poets, in a frequent contributor to current permodicis...
...It is so rare to find fundamental brain scuff in the journalism of our time that when one does find it surely it's a matter of duty to call attention to the rare phenomenon...
...Moore, anyhow," observed Scatiscicus, "his caste in wine is irreproachable...
...Have you heard the toast," he went on, "said to have been sung by the jury that vindicated Mr...
...THOMAS J. SHAMAN Is rector of The Catholic University at Washington, I...
...RUODOSIA Gasassoir is the author of The Joy of LI Ic and Other Poems, and Earth Cry and Other Poems...
...has written, among other things In English, an Essay on Democracy...
...The story is related by Mr...
...Doctor Angelicus prepared to repel a charge...
...T LAwSsson Ricca Is the chaplain ol the Catholic Club of Yale Unwerulty...
...There's one good thing to say about Mr...
...Professor Herecicus, or Diabolus Advocatus, as he is also known, is one of our most valued but difficult contributors...
...John (Fill up...
...Hill's cider so that the jury could test its quality, and its alcoholic content...
...He does not like theni...
...The drawingroom was especially crimson, and her uncle, the host, about to enter to receive his guests, heard one of the Englishmen say: "How red all this is...
...LA~rn...
...Strange legends abound too much in these prohibition days...
...Tns LIBRARIAN...
...Anyhow, this is the toast, apocrophal or not: Here's to John P. Hill—John Philip Hill, And to his blessed cider mill, And all good souls who drink their fill...
...John Philip Hill's right to home-made cider, in Baltimore recently...
...So, let us discuss one of our contemporaries—" "Alt !" said Primus Cricicus, who'd been looking bored, "now you're talking...
...But I'm nor talking scandal, or thinking of flaws to pick at, just now, P. Criticus," said Doctor Angelicus, severely...
...Daniel Carey...
...November 26, 1924 THE COMMONWEAL THE QUIET CORNER I counsel thee, shut not th7 heart nor thy library.—C...
...incense, not a pepper pot...
...Moore, 'has avoided the burden of high and deep passions and all their august appeals by reducing everything in his experience to the level of a palatal, visual, auditive, or tactual sensation—friendship, religion, love and arc itself.' "It is a portrait of a man of the senses only—one from whom every sign of the moral and spiritual qualities of the soul has disappeared, atrophied by disuse, or injured by abuse...
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