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538 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1925 The Butter and Egg Man MR. GEORGE S. KAUFMAN, the author of this bubbling piece, is never backward in the gentle art of spoofing. On this occasion he has...
...J. C. Squire is, of course, an exceptional touchstone of what is fine in poetry and reveals his qualities in a really rare nosegay from the lyric age of English song...
...Over 1,100 coats of arms in their proper colors...
...Have your newsdealer order your copy...
...In his chapter on Medicine and the Press, Dr...
...VJENERAL use in our library has proved that the revised edition of the new International Encyclopaedia is one of the most valuable adjuncts that we possess...
...For this purpose, of course, the best book is The Oxford Movement, by R. W. Church, Dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral, London (New York: The Macmillan Company) who was himself a charming and sympathetic figure in the movement...
...They Knew What They Wanted—Sin, punishment and forgiveness in swift and powerful sequence...
...Also, and again of course, the play is an utter "flop" during its try-out in Syracuse, and still of course, becomes an immediate success when Peter Jones, refusing to desert the ship, sails it into the port of Broadway...
...but for the reader, the lover of beauty in its ecstatical form, there is here the resultant of the feeling of generations of a chivalrous and religious people that will bring tears of tenderness as well as thrills of pleasure to such readers of finer things as still survive among us...
...There was much difference of opinion as to the presentment of the Cardinal when this book came out, favorable and unfavorable views being freely expressed...
...MURPHY & McCARTHY, 87 Walker Street, New York The Medical Follies^ by Morris Fishbein...
...Prescription...
...Price $15.00—Free 50-page booklet on request...
...Archbishop Ireland...
...Behind the mantle of reticence, quackery, even roguery, and honest practice have been equally obscured...
...Now, Dr...
...William M. T. Gamble is an American writer on historical subjects who is at present residing in Germany...
...Is Zat So?—The best character comedy of the year, hung on a poor plot...
...Stylishly, comfortably, correctly---In PEDIFORME SHOES___ New Style Book K___ On request...
...Beginning with an account of Elisha Perkins who cured all by tractors in the eighteenth century (his influence even spread to England) Dr...
...This book was published by Longman's in 1882, but has long been out of print...
...Every article is brief and plain enough for the ordinary reader, and yet sufficiently complete and learned for the scholar...
...In disputed questions all sides receive attention and respect...
...Born at Los Pedroches near Cordoba, a distinguished scholar of the University of Alcala, Sepulveda was the familiar of all the learned men of Europe of his time...
...The New International Encyclopaedia...
...New York: The Century Company...
...Sepulveda's controversy with Bartolome de Las Casas has left an unjust stain of cruelty on his name...
...It is a sorry tale, but intensely interesting...
...The Times: "Against a background of a Cathedral in Assisi and the pageantry of richly colored costumes and the life of the village, this odyssey of a Saint works gradually out of worldliness into holiness...
...His restraint has left him free of any charge of overstatement...
...Now bless...
...Of course the continued adherents of the Anglican church receive full notice in it, but no one could accuse the author of unfairness, and his book may be consulted to fill some certain gaps in the history of the time...
...It is amazing that a foreigner should have been able to penetrate so fully into the English ecclesiastical mind, but it was accomplished doubtless by the persistent study, not merely of all the published memoirs, but (far more tedious task) by wading through the files of the British Critic, The Rambler, and other dead and dried-up periodicals of the day...
...BOOKS WORKS ON THE OXFORD MOVEMENT ANY person who desires to make a complete library of books on this subject, must set aside a large amount of space, for he must include a large number of memoirs and lives —many of them in two or more volumes...
...Impartial...
...Brother Thomas, President HE etiquette of physicians, like the discipline of the army, -*- has not encouraged or advanced free discussion...
...You deserve the strongest support for this courageous work...
...For such a one, the following notes are hardly complete...
...Of this, a word must be said of a bibliographical character...
...5 with reproductions of a large number of designs and figures in colors...
...Paul H. De Kruif published Our Medicine Men, a salty and critical account of professional antics among the specialists of research...
...Then come, you fairies...
...Brisbane states...
...Early this year, Sinclair Lewis, in his last novel, Arrowsmith, detailed in full, in the life of Martin Arrowsmith, what De Kruif had already suggested about medical circles...
...He was dropped from the philanthropic institute where he was doing research...
...But for others who wish to begin reading on this subject, it is best to start with a comprehensive book which will explain the whole complicated course of the movement, before embarking upon any of the supplementary literature...
...New...
...In Selecting Your Plays {The following list includes all plays reviewed in The Commonweal—favorably or otherwise—which are still playing in New York...
...Edgar Lee Masters is the author of Spoon River Anthology...
...Every article is original, specially written for it, bringing together information found in no other work of reference...
...Folks once plagued with___ Corns, bunions, fallen archies...
...5/s...
...He who would really understand the Apologia should endeavor to secure a copy of this first edition which appears from time to time in second-hand catalogues, or read it in a library, if only as a study of what the pen of Newman was really capable of in irony when its wielder was thoroughly aroused...
...These pamphlets are sometimes to be had bound up together— a very notable find for anyone who wants to pick up curious literature...
...Morris Fishbein, spokesman for 90,000 doctors, acts upon the prejudice of silence, and publishes The Medical Follies, which is a summary account of unique high spots in the history of American medicine, with emphasis upon the fanciful theories and quacks that have figured in its making...
...Then, the fascinating and highly entertaining essays of Dr...
...Ailments caused by feet...
...In vain are all the charms I can devise, She hath an art to break them with her eyes...
...Attention should also be given to the most complete work on the subject, La Renaissance Catholique en Angleterre au Dix-neuvieme Siecle, by Paul Thureau-Dangin (Paris: Libraire Plon...
...Oh, Mama!—The wrong kind of French farce...
...The amusement and fund of information so easily to be acquired by the lay reader, is rather a wind-fall in this specialized field—for when he has finished it, he has at hand much sound knowledge of the position of medicine today...
...The Only Perfect Substitute for Stained Glass, and at a Fractional Cost Is "GLACIER" Window Decoration Send for Booklet No...
...There are also William George Ward and the Oxford Movement (1889) and William George Ward and the Catholic Revival, published by the Macmillan Company...
...After a running fire of pamphlets, the Apologia was published—at first in weekly parts, then as a volume by Longman's in 1864...
...Desire Under the Elms—Eugene O'Neill's most unwholesome repast well acted by a new cast...
...It must be noted that "he did not advocate slavery, drawing a sharp distinction between subjection which was civilis and that which was herilis, and did not approve of compulsory conversion to Christianity, while he definitely denounced robbery or ill-treatment of the natives" of the newly discovered Americas...
...36 West 36th Street 322 Livingston Street New York Brooklyn, N. Y. MANHATTAN COLLEGE NEW YORK CITY In the Fieldston-Riverdale Section Van Cortlandt Park and 242d Street Conducted by The Christian Brothers Registration September 17-19, 1925 College classes begin September 21, 1925 New College Buildings in a splendid setting house New York's famous old Catholic College COURSES: Liberal Arts, Science, Pedagogy, Commerce, Architecture, Civil and Industrial Engineering...
...The Trial of Achilli vs...
...Several years ago, Dr...
...Having thus got the carte du pays, the next thing to be read is the Apologia pro Vita Sua, by Cardinal Newman...
...Reminiscences of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement, by T. Mozely, a contemporary of Newman's at Oxford, his brother-in-law, close friend, and a man of real humor and charming personality, should be read next...
...Kaufman has marred his work for the cheap purpose of getting one extra laugh by a reference to a priest and a rabbi, in inexecrably bad taste...
...Things of this sort are becoming so common along Broadway just now that it is high time to bring them into the open...
...1924...
...Thomas Walsh...
...THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA EQUAL TO 160 VOLUMES COSTING $400 for a limited time may be obtained at the AMAZINGLY LOW PRICE of $60.00 °* $50.00 payable in twelve payable cash or in monthly install- three monthly inments stallments Promptly order or engage a set from The Editors THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA 119 East 57th Street New York, N. Y. 542 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1925 The Princess Theatre 39th Street East of Broadway Clare Tree Major presents THE LITTLE POOR MAN William Lindsey Prize Play by HARRY LEE Cardinal Hayes: "One of the most beautiful contributions to Franciscan literature...
...It has never been adversely criticized...
...George Johnson is the editor of the Catholic Educational Review...
...In examining the claims of the various quacks, Dr...
...As all the world knows, it was provoked by an accusation of Charles Kingsley impugning Newman's truthfulness...
...B. QUAILE, Importer for United States 405 Lexington Avenue, at 42nd Street New York Bill Was 111 Continually...
...When you know that the amiable and timorous Peter Jones is played by Gregory Kelly, you have at once a compact and clear idea of the type of character involved...
...This information is given in 17 volumes, each of 800 pages of text profusely illustrated...
...Melt her hard heart with your melodious sound...
...It is a favorite book of reference everywhere...
...This was against the grain, and tabooed...
...This was a Catholic firm, now long extinct, and the pamphlet was on Newman's side, as is clear from the preface and introduction...
...1895) is still obtainable, but if it can be picked up, it is well worth reading, and contains a most interesting and characteristic tale of Newman just before his conversion, which is not in any other account of his life...
...1,450 contributors...
...In fact, his marshaling of facts and ironic material could hardly surpass the irrevocable tragic events that result from quacks, when some innocent dolt allows a spine twister to treat him unknowingly suffering with cancer, diabetes, or tubercle bacillus...
...1 HE Elizabethans certainly knew how to write poems to please the anthologists...
...1912...
...The result of all this has been apparent in some recent books...
...He is, histrionically speaking, her counterpart in the male field— hesitant, eccentric and charming with all...
...Tortured him...
...Dear Little Flower, pray that this Church Full details On applicamay be built in His Honor Whom you «,« loved so dearly...
...Knowledge nowhere else available—London Times...
...All of which gave impetus to the spread of exacting medical knowledge...
...George N. Shuster, former Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, and other educators will follow these...
...The Supplement Volume brings the whole work up-to-date...
...Freshman class limited to 2S0...
...He later retired to a villa house at Pozoblanco, and devoted his later years to horticulture and the practice of Horatian letters, leaving interesting accounts of his husbandry and preparing an important work on the reform of the calendar, the first question on which had been raised in the fifth Lateran Council, in 1515...
...It has the stamp of sound scholarship and the favorable judgment of critics...
...LIMITED AMERICAN EDITION Containing the pedigree stem of every Irish family entitled to Heraldic Honors...
...Coming from the son of "Ideal" Ward, this book is well worth reading, even by those who have already tackled the other books named...
...Edwin Clark is a contributor of critical essays to the New York Times and other publications...
...The fact is that Newman was a person of many-sided character, and no life by any author would have satisfied all his admirers...
...Canary Dutch—Old age pathos in crookdom...
...The thirteenth edition was published by Longman's in 1898, but the history of the first issue is worth noting...
...No fact, however awkward, is suppressed...
...1.50...
...Ward's life of his father, in two volumes, should be read after this...
...His report on the advancement in knowledge of glands, and Steinach's method of rejuvenation, is adroit...
...The Gorilla—The best spoofing of mystery plays in many a day...
...An expert compiler of dictionaries (Vizetelly) describes it as a combination of encyclopedias or dictionaries, and as "the most scholarly and best edited encyclopedia produced in this country...
...and The Historic Basis of Anglicanism...
...He writes that—"It may be well, at this point, to call attention to some reported instances in which the results raise the shadows of a fearsome doubt...
...Ignatius M. Cox, S.J., of Fordham University...
...dance with me a round...
...Next on the list comes The Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman, by Wilfrid Ward (London: Longman's...
...The tabloid-takers, who want a general view of the period, can get it in less than one hundred small pages in The Oxford Movement, by Wilfrid Ward (London: T. and C. Jack...
...And dress...
...To prevent this vicious practice—quite within the law—is the purpose of his book...
...It was pointed out that the encroachment of the state upon the personal relations between the patient and his physician, was becoming a menace...
...The Poor Nut—One good hippodrome scene and little else...
...Of course, Peter Jones is persuaded to dump the largest part of his inheritance into a play which, as explained to him, combines all the virtues of Abie's Irish Rose, Within the Law, the Easiest Way, and numerous other box office morningglories...
...3,000 illustrations...
...It is not controversial, but it...
...Major: "While Catholics will perhaps understand it more fully and deeply, it is so eminently an example of the finest theatre that I feel sure you will find large and thankful audiences from every quarter...
...New York: The Dial Press...
...This knowledge is now for the first time brought within the reach of everyone...
...and other books...
...He has taken what should be a beautiful search for health, for vigor, and for strength, and made of it an ugly and discouraging thing to every right-minded individual...
...Fishbein proceeds to a discussion of the origin, growth and practice of homeopathy, osteopathy, and chiropractic in this country...
...Every article is signed...
...This incident is a striking example of the value of the medical profession in politics...
...MacLaurin, which from the point of view of modern medicine, speculate upon the treatment, lax or otherwise, that had carried off the illustrious dead, show stimulated interest...
...My Campaign In Ireland, was Newman's privately published account of his unfortunate experience at the so-called Catholic University in Dublin...
...Abrams, with his electrical blood tests, is suavely exposed...
...CONTRIBUTORS Rev...
...Lewis Mumford is the author of Sticks and Stones...
...R. Dana Skinner has written to Mrs...
...For General Use...
...Edwin Clark...
...On his death, he left his valuable library to the Cathedral of Cordoba in 1572 or 1573...
...The Religious Aim of Education By G. K. Chesterton Mr...
...How original is much of this poetry, how derivative from foreign sources, are questions much discussed among the critics...
...New York: Boni and Liveright...
...Two rare books about Newman and the movement may be mentioned here, because they occasionally occur in secondhand catalogues and should be secured by anyone having the opportunity...
...ONLY TWO PERFORMANCES WEEKLY Tuesday and Friday Matinee Telephone—Fitxroy 057 9 and 0712 New Church to the Little Flower Alhambra...
...W. M. Letts is a new contributor to The Commonweal...
...The subjects are arranged in articles alphabetically, all thoroughly indexed, so that any of its 350,000 topics may be found without delay...
...The Telegraph: "A play of rare beauty and excellence...
...An excellent chapter is devoted to health legislation—with the difficulties of medicine in politics cited—and also the need of proper legislation...
...He points out the emotionalism and absurd mysticism that is brought into use to make these side-show features of medicine gaudily attractive to the innocent and gullible—that the dogma of both osteopathy and chiropractic, claiming that disease is caused by dislocation or subluxation of the bones, is not only unproven, but a misrepresentation of facts...
...The notices on ecclesiastical history and the articles on ritual and liturgy have in them an assurance, which we can gladly confirm...
...The interest and writing of this book is of a high order...
...His summary of physical culture is much to the point...
...Up-to-Date...
...Juan Gines de Sepulveda, by Aubrey F. G. Bell...
...George Johnson, Associate Professor of Education at the Catholic University, appears in this issue of The Commonweal...
...Chesterton's article is one of a series on education, the first of which, Fundamentals of Education, by Dr...
...London: Oxford University Press...
...cv~ with q\ i, x__ lausca rear Is Expressing tHe Spirit oP Devotion in its Loveliest Form Free Booklet at jewellers or ecclesiastical dealers...
...His analysis of this October 7, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL new panacea to fulfill the desire of Faust and Ponce de Leon, records a comic incident...
...It is a Library in itself: "the summary of thousands of books...
...The Times, London...
...For definite detail, such as dates and names of places, for accurate historical reference, it would be hard to equal this great work in its revised form...
...These articles are a valuable contribution to the general discussion of the subject...
...James J. Walsh is the author of The Thirteenth, the Greatest of Centuries...
...BRIEFER MENTION Sottffs from the Elizabethans, by J. C. Squire...
...The Fall of Eve—A stupid play with clever acting by Ruth Gordon...
...The Sun, New York...
...On this occasion he has chosen as his victim the theatrical profession itself, and particularly that type of man whose yearnings to have a hand in the great doings of the stage lead him to provide the sinews of war for new and venturesome productions...
...gives the positive and constructive information which ends controversy...
...It is not for Catholics only, but "as useful to the general reader as it is to the Catholic cleric or layman...
...The other pamphlet, published by Strange, a firm also long since defunct, is distinctly unfriendly...
...Newman, is another item which may appear under one of two forms—the pamphlet containing a full report of that famous trial, perhaps one of the worst perversions of justice ever enacted in any court or in any country, published by Dorman's in 1852...
...Mr...
...A Library of Liberal Knowledge HpHE Catholic Encyclopedia is justly called "A Library of ¦*• Liberal Knowledge," because it contains the complete circle of liberal knowledge: Art Geography Music Religion Architecture History Nations Science Biography Law Philosophy Sculpture Education Literature Races Sociology —all that makes for Civilization...
...Outside Looking In—The hobo empire at its best and worst —marred by wholly unnecessary blasphemy...
...Authoritative exponent of everything in the field of intellectual aspiration, science, literature, history or art which deserves the attention of reflecting and earnest persons.— Literary Digest...
...White Cargo—Only if you like to be harrowed to no purpose...
...540 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1925 "IRISH PEDIGREES" 2%0JKoo°oHpAageT...
...Doc said___ "It's your feet___ Your shoes afflict___ Certain sensitive nerves...
...A Short History of the Oxford Movement, by Canon 01lard (Milwaukee: The Young Churchman Company) is a book which originally appeared in England, and is an Anglican account of the movement, but one which brings the story down to our own day...
...Bill got them___ He Is WELI____ His story...
...In May, 1921, a man, seventy-two years of age, was scheduled to lecture in London on the subject—'How I Was Made Twenty Years Younger by Eugen Steinach.' He was found dead in bed the morning before his lecture...
...After years spent in Rome in the factional uprisings of 1526, a Spaniard among the Italians attempting to assist the forces of Spain, he found himself turned out of the Castle Saint Angelo and took refuge in Naples...
...The well known Dr...
...It can be obtained from time to time from the second-hand catalogues, and it is a real treasure...
...Such a person in the parlance of the day is "a butter and egg man...
...Comprehensive...
...New York: Dodd, Mead and Company...
...Second Edition...
...Compulsory health insurance and state medicine, indeed, are the ultimate and worst forms of paternalism...
...Even in the pages of Church, the characters of the movement do not stand out in such life-like manner...
...Reliable...
...There is rarely a publishing season without several of these collections, and the richness of the field is amply attested by the large numbers of selections and collections that industrious authorship is able to harvest from it...
...It is a big book, but it is the final work on the subject...
...Arms and the Man—Splendidly acted revival of Shaw's pleasantest comedy...
...Other articles by Rev...
...The writer is not aware whether The Oxford Mqvement in America, or Glimpses of Life in an Anglican Seminary, by Clarence E. Walworth (New York: The Catholic Book Exchange...
...He stood up in front of you like a mile-stone, and he brayed at you like a jackass," is just one of a number of lively characterizations...
...1899...
...Cardinal Newman, by Bertram Newman, who was no relation of the Cardinal's, nor even a co-religionist, recently reviewed in these columns, is an excellent account of the Cardinal's writings chronologically, with the leading incidents of his life...
...Achilli, as everybody knows, was as finished a scoundrel as ever lived, and his character is fully exposed here, so that at the end of the trial even the Times—an old enemy of the Church—could but exclaim that, in future, justice for a Catholic was not to be expected in an English court...
...Fishbein delightfully corrects the many elementary errors in the daily advice that Arthur Brisbane turns out to the syndicate of Hearst papers, on how to keep well...
...To this first edition were attached not merely the pamphlets just mentioned, but a close criticism of Kingsley's statements and other matters, all of which found no place in later editions of which the number is legion...
...IF the learned world had not so thoroughly lost its knowledge of Latin, the name of Sepulveda would no doubt not be so strange to most readers, and so generally misunderstood and misrepresented...
...Joseph Clayton is the author of Economics for Christians...
...and Civilization...
...Altogether the editors and publishers have produced a book which will long hold a valuable place in our reference shelves, in public and private libraries, and studentsin our schools and colleges are now in possession of a ready and authoritative aid in every subject of general interest...
...PEDIFORME SHOES___ They're perfect foot forms...
...The correspondence that is running in the pages of The Commonweal and the general editorial comment that followed the recent religious survey made at the University of Notre Dame is indicative of the widespread interest in the subject of Catholic education...
...Many of Newman's own works bear on the movement, but the work which should certainly be included in this series is Loss and Gain...
...near Los Angeles, California The Carmelite Fathers in charge of this new parish, dedicated to THE LITTLE FLOWER, propose to erect a beautiful MEMORIAL CHURCH and School as a SHRINE to her honor in California...
...Fishbein is quite certain that one tear will not dissolve millions of bacteria, as Mr...
...The Little Poor Man—This intensely interesting dramatic life of Saint Francis is reopening for special matinees, Tuesdays and Fridays...
...Arlen's weak-willed heroine obscured by the glamor of Katherine Cornell's all-too-good acting...
...Fishbein not only reports on their theories, but furnishes amusing exposition of the mumbo-jumbo antics with which they are perpetrated on the patient...
...Gregory Kelly is considerably more than the husband of Ruth Gordon...
...White Collars—How to live if you're neither banker nor bricklayer...
...Facts are let speak for themselves...
...The MacFadden gospel is essentially an appeal to a large minority of persons whose eyes are aroused by the flash of nakedness, or whose weakened wills succumb to every new health fad...
...One is especially charmed by such lovely indirectness as Thomas Campion's Invocation, which we are glad to reproduce— "Thrice toss these oaken ashes on the air, Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chair, Then thrice-three times tie up this true love's knot, And murmur soft, 'She will or she will not.' Go burn these poisonous weeds in yon blue fire, These screech-owl's feathers and this prickling briar, This cypress gathered at a dead man's grave, That all my fears and cares an end may have...
...That of thousands...
...This, however, October 7, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 539 may be fairly said—there are several smaller lives, but this is the only one which, in all probability, will remain final...
...Send your contribution at once, and you will share in the coming Novena of Masses...
...Thus he must have the Remains of Hurrell Froude, the lives of Samuel Wilberforce, Keble, Pusey, Arnold, Stanley, Tait, and many another less well known book, such as the Autobiography of Isaac Williams, for all of them contain much precious information relating to that period...
...Too much box-office blasphemy...
...Jisk for yours or write KARPELES COMPANY-PROVIDENCE R.I...
...He records the attitude taken by the American Medical Association in opposing the Sheppard-Towner Act, which took the stand urging "that the care of the mother and the child is a local—even a personal—and not a federal function...
...For the Love of the LITTLE FLOWER Help to Build thb Shrine Donations should be sent to the Carmelite Fathers, Alhambra, California...
...The acting of this piece is excellent throughout, the comedy for the most part swift and sure, and the satire, though very broad and obvious, not without the quality that keeps the audience chuckling...
...THE PEDIFORME SHOE CO...
...Kaufman .has written a very entertaining satire in which are involved the fortunes of Peter Jones, a young hotel clerk from Chillicothe who has fallen heir to $22,500, and Jane Weston, a stenographer of the Lehmac Production Inc., a bankrupt but optimistic firm of New York producers...
...Headaches, moroseness___ Nervous irritability...
...until now, due to the extensiveness of modern publicity, both are before the public at large...
...He has also been bitten by the profanity flea...
...The Green Hat—Mr...
...2.00...
...A revival of Latin will not only provide the only fitting international language but will in a sense restore to Europe the lost age of Erasmus...
...Oddly enough, even Wilfrid Ward mixes up the two William Palmers of the movement—an easy thing for the ordinary reader to do...
...and Songs and Satires...
...Popular...
...Pope Clement VII sent him to the coronation of Carlos V at Bologna in 1530, and he was commissioned to work with Cardinal de Quiiiones and Diego de Neyla on the revision of the Breviary which appeared in 1536, and proved the foundation of the English Book of Common Prayer of 1549...
...Sepulveda, in 1536, was offered the post of official chronicler of Carlos V and followed his court in some of its ceaseless migrations...
Vol. 2 • October 1925 • No. 22
