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Walsh, Thomas & Sholl, Anna McClure & Benét, Laura
October 21, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL in Tarnishna strong womanly qualitynshe has now acquired, or perhaps been able to reveal for the first time. She also displays now an engaging and deliciously...
...Thus far you seemed to have failed to introduce my boy to the life of the spirit,' said Mr...
...Hamilton's educational theory is closely allied to the Montessori ideal--to allow his pupils the utmost self-expression compatible with the reasonable desire of parents that the boy in question should "learn something" and be able to pass college entrance-examlnations, ridiculous as not a few of their questions October 21, 1925 smoking, reveal how much the confessional of the Church is needed in a boys' school...
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...Too much box-office blasphemy...
...SPINGARN is a new contributor to The Commonweal...
...The fond parent of a large band of children is in more or less the same predicament when called upon to declare a preference...
...The fundamental elements of the Cunningham home are similar to those in Mother, but the book lacks the taste and sensibility of that appealing story...
...Although these pages are a continuous story of drunkenness, debauchery, unsanitary conditions, bad housing and exploited youth, reform was slowly but surely creeping in...
...and by pious members of the laity at opportune times, especially on the monthly retreat day or day of recollection...
...Is Zat So?--Tbe best character comedy of the year, hung on a poor plot...
...DODD, MEAD & CO., 449 Fourth Avenue, New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Booklet with specimen pages, illustrations, etc., and full information about the regular 25-volume edition and also the new Popu~ MAIL THIS COUPON (Commonweal 10-25) Send me, without cost or obligation, your free 64-page booklet and full information about The New International Encyclopaedia and the new Popular-Priced Edition...
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...What we really have in the end, is Mr...
...The Pellcan--Well acted, well constructed, play on a thin and unpersuasive motive...
...J o n s BUNKER is the author of Shining Fields and Dark Tower...
...ANtrA MCCLUEX SHOLL is a writer of criticism on art and literature, and the author of The Law of Life...
...The Elizabethan statutes against new buildings, both in practice and intention were directed against dwellings for the poor . . . and the dominating fear . . . was the increase of poor people in London, especially in the newly built parts of Westminster...
...Hamilton writes--"Just as the church, Catholic or Protestant, can almost guarantee to close the mind hermetically against all possibility of spiritual growth, so a school might assure a father like myself that in its care his child might graduate with the conviction that her mind is free to grow to the utmost limit of its power...
...Social workers and students,of today's economic conditions can take heart of grace from reading LAURA BEN~T...
...Apparently, Kipling is first in importance...
...Among many poets, as among painters, 9 periods of production...
...The groping uncertainty and vagueness of modem thought on many moral and spiritual problems has strong illustration in certain passages in this book...
...The Little Poor Man--This intensely interesting dramatic life of Saint Francis is reopening for special matin&s, Tuesdays and Fridays...
...Towne's preferences and exclusions...
...Anderson and Stallings, two dramatists in search of a play...
...It is printed from the same plates as the regular edition and includes the recent Supplement that has made The New International the most modern and complete encyclopaedia in existence...
...George says in her intmduction-. "There was the growth of a spirit of humanity . . In England . . a greater knowledge of social conditions and a new scientific spirit in dealing with social questions...
...The Buccaneer--Messrs...
...Reverence for the fathers and the founders of our institutions is not so general a quality among our people that we can afford to overlook the pioneer strength and moral stamina of the early settlers from the Norselands...
...As to contents, this is the same great work that is accepted in schools, libraries, and homes as America's greatest reference work...
...Here and there through the book are scattered such gems no matter to what master, provided he lives out of the parish...
...E. Hamilton...
...Mr...
...She has shown creative this child instead of being dead is actually one---but which ability in her assimilation of much heavy material...
...Immigrants to London at this time, included Irish, Jews, Negroes, lascars and a floating country population, with a large percentage of women...
...Mollie and Peter, the kindly, child-like admiring parents, with only surface knowledge of their young, are certainly not the stuff to breed strong characters, and their children cannot interest us...
...Gin-drinking was essentially a disease of poverty...
...Mr...
...It lacks the perfection and balance of Vildrac's work...
...Hamilton frankly acknowledging his failure to influence a particular boy, writes-"My influence as a teacher was tested hard in this boy . . . years later when I talked with Nat's father, I felt that somehow it was found wanting...
...She also displays now an engaging and deliciously quiet humor, unforced and as simple as a light breeze...
...Illegitimate children were often handed directly over to parish officials in consideration of a lump sum of money...
...The radiance doth outpour Like firelight through a door, And eagerly I find it...
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...Not to congested There is in this play much of the strong fresh beauty of districts, for London was expanding her narrow streets and courts, the price of corn was low, and food reasonable in price, but " . . . the quantity of spirits sold progressively increased and reached its maximum of over 8,ooo, ooo gallons, in 1743 595 London Life in the Eighteenth Century, by M. Dorothy George...
...Says he can't stop smoking"--then, why Nat Warren read Nietszche, and why someone else held a Bible-class...
...the glitter of a rather phantasmagorical world and a cosmopolitan cleverness, through which, however, now and then, break in the fair lights of the morning when the natural, bird-like singing voice of Charles Hanson Towne is heard again, even in the latter years, pouring forth this really ex~quisite song~ "I love your face...
...LAURA BEN~T is the author of Fairy Bread, and a contributor of critical reviews to current periodicals...
...There are some of us, therefore, who will not accept Mr...
...The distinguishing feature of the time is, as always, the fact that human life persisted and developed in spite of every effort made to crush, stunt and abuse the growing generation...
...IGNATIUS W. Cox, S J . , is an authority and writer on Catholic education...
...This charity led to others---lying-in hospitals, dispensaries and work-house infirmaries...
...October 21, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL in Tarnishna strong womanly qualitynshe has now acquired, or perhaps been able to reveal for the first time...
...Perhaps this is an explanation of Mr...
...The Gorilhv-The best spoofing of mystery plays in many a day...
...as an author, and particularly a poet, is rarely a safe critic of his own productions...
...Little Ships, by KatMeen Norris...
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...Norlie records the discovery of Greenland by Gunnbjorn in 876, shortly after the settlement of Iceland...
...The years, the experience of life, the changing values of taste that result from the passing of time and the altering of its conditions, result in Mr...
...but more I love the light behind it...
...THE YOUNG LOCHINVARS To continue the discussion of modern education and educational methods that has been running in the pages of THE COMMONWEAL, Ernest Sutherland Bates will contribute a series of three articles dealing with American State universities...
...While these first social institutions of London took root, the city itself "expanded irregularly from its centre in a succession of waves...
...Miss Schons also gives us reprints of rare copies of original poems, some of them from the Garcla Library now housed at the University of Texas in Austin...
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...Pedro Henriquez Urefia, or some of the other Mexican scholars and literary men should not delay to provide, as Sister Juana In6s, aside from her high literary merit, is a figure of outstanding importance as the first original poetess of the new world...
...It is ordinary in both tone and manner of writing...
...House...
...There was one par- of uncertainties and compromises, which, in the case of his ticularly forlorn set of children--the little climbing boys or advice to Grady on a more serious matter than cigarettechimney-sweepers...
...Applesauce--Amusing characterization in a comedy of smalltown life...
...I eighteenth century came and went as cheaply as dust in the challenge him to watch this scene unmoved, or not to join, in wind...
...A simple graphic quatrain from his first years is reprinted here ; September~ "Now at the grave of summer stands A priest in purple vestments stoled, And through the hills, his lifted hands, There runs a rosary of gold...
...In less capable hands, it might easily degenerate into sentimentality...
...Nevertheless it moves us because of the real episodes of joy and sorrow, disappointment and fulfilment, in the lives of these emotional and primitive folk...
...LITTLE SHIPS, Mrs...
...From these chronicles the story develops on a vast scale to deal with the prosperity that marks Norwegian people wherever they settle...
...Towne's poetry in an increase of thought and philosophy, a decrease of a sentiment, which some critics found excessive in his youthful works...
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...Yet an identical quality pervades both plays, a quality that you can fully understand only if you have known and loved the soil of France, far from its brilliant capital...
...He delights in listening to Kellogg's bird-songs on our Vic"-"Grady came in with a story of weak will...
...THOMAS WALSH...
...In fact, the cast is excellent throughout, with a particularly delightful characterization by Harry Beresford...
...This new edition has been produced to bring financially within the reach of every family in America the work that offers for quick reference all the world's knowledge right down to the present...
...We speak of the warm and the cold style of a Murillo or Velasquez, and we can note the estilo frio coming over Mr...
...Hamilton approaches the spiritual side of nocent lad, few people take much notice and the officers, who education, he gives evidence--as do many modern teachers--put him out, the least of anybody...
...W HEN embodiment Turgenieff to the in Fathers world-old and misunderstanding Sons gave classical beter's early experiences learn the medium in this the of motherhood new "stadium under age"--"May the new disshe pensation of a woman's choice as to the number and time- tween the two generations, modern society was about to enter furiously, and with malice aforethought, on the study of the child...
...The B~tter and~Egg Mart--Mostly good comedy spoiled by occasional offensively bad taste...
...A N excellent brochure on a personality all too little regarded i n , o u r American literature is the study on Sister Juana In6s de la Cruz, the Tenth Muse, as her scholarly admirers in Mexico and Spain were accustomed to call her...
...In spite of this confession, the book closes with no apparent apprehension of the fact that the boy "gang" in life is but a crude, elementary symbol of the fact that the Church--the spiritual body--is served by team-work on a supernal plane...
...Paul's tragic accident and death, Cecy's wretched love affair, Tom's downfall, and most of all the height of domestic bliss to which Kate, the poor relation rises --are all authentic little ironies of life...
...Certainly it is in accord with his further wishes for his daughdistribution of her children . . . Kipling's If, the book of Ecclesiastes, the Rubaiyat, and a few of the sayings of Jesus are sufficient for her spiritual foundation...
...of wisdom as--"To hunt the bird without a gun, and love the If the child serves the first forty days, we are rid of him wildflower, but leave it on its stem, is the deeper lesson to forever...
...Olaf M. To Die With Jesus Translated and a d a p t e t l from t h e Freneh o f J u l e s G r l m a l , S.]g., D.D...
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...Arlen's weak-willed heroine obscured by the glamor of Katherine Cornell's aU-too-good acting...
...PADEAZC COLU~t, well known as the author o{ plays and stories o f Irish folklore, and JAMES J. WALSH, physician, writer, and lecturer, are frequent contributors to The Commonweal and other publications...
...and the great mortality was chiefly among children...
...The facts one ?----of her own pupils, you have ample material for a gamut of a period soon become bald and dull if they are not salted of emotional and tender acting...
...Hamilton's failure to introduce at least one of his pupils to "the life of the spirit...
...New York: .4lfred d . Knopf...
...They don't find it...
...The Real Boy and the New ICorld, by .4...
...H. SOMERVILLE iS an English political economist, and lecturer...
...They Knew What They Wanted--Sin, punishment and forgiveness in swift and powerful sequence...
...So, to insure infancy, the important Act of 1767 was passed, and "a~l parish children under six were sent out of London to be nursed...
...But light and silence live Within the heart's hushed portal...
...GUSTAV DAVlUSON, J. COESON MILLEa, and GEO/tOE LAW~NCE ANDREWS are frequent contributors of poetry to American magazines...
...Towne's verse after the publication and success of his poem Manhattan...
...For words may bring regret When love's last sun has s e t ~ Too soon, too soon they perish...
...A most unhappy practice prevails in most places," said In Selecting Your Plays (The following list includes all plays reviewed in The Commonweal--fo~orably or otherzoise--whlch are still playing in New York...
...Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE COMMONWEAL 598 ONE ,Y(CACMILLAN BOOK A WEEK Norlie...
...8or .Juana In[s de la Cruz, by Dorothy 8chons...
...By GERALD SHAUGHNESSY, S.M., D.D...
...It owes its charm and very readable quality largely to its unusual frankness--almost a confidential and touching candor, empty of the spirit of self-protection--as if a tired tutor, towards midnight, had grown communicative over a camp-fire to a casual visitor--"Hawkins loves birds...
...The Poor Nut--One good hippodrome scene and little else...
...New York: Doubleday, Page and Company...
...some of his earlier poems will be preserved stubbornly and his first admirers will point to the loveliness of the lines in his Manhattan as an apology for this--"Forget not your young days, The dream untarnished still, The simple boyhood ways, The music of the mill, And oh, the high green hills of home, And the gold daffodil...
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...Apprenticeship seems to have been regarded as the most general way of giving a child a start in life...
...Thus the labor of children came to be regarded as an asset, and apprenticeship, that deadly binding over of young creatures to improper authority, was instituted...
...Gm~TEUDZ C^LLXrI~^N is the author of Inheritance...
...HARaY KzmF is the author of The Cry of Youth and the Thresher's Wife...
...In making the most of its possibilities, Miss Harding is ably seconded by a sincere, simple and engaging performance on the part of Rollo Peters, as Count Philippe de Verdois...
...Towne's will still survive his selective impulse...
...pupils, knowing one of them to be her daughter, but unable, If we may judge by the initial chapter, human life in the through a chain of ironic circumstances, to identify her...
...Selected Poems, by Gharles Hanson Towne...
...The Green Hat--Mr...
...They are not fugitive, And love can never grieve For that which is immortal...
...Her survey is an intense one--the cross-section glimpse of the time as exact in detail, as if eighteenth-century London had been placed under a microscope...
...To what was this high death-rate due...
...In the past fifty years, the number of people who had a first-hand knowledge of how the poor lived, had been increasing...
...THE COMMONWEAL October 21, 1925 Old favorites of Mr...
...The book, however, throws more light on the ideals and reactions of Mr...
...Grosley says in I765N"AII the houses in London, excepting a few in the heart of the city, belong to undertakers who build upon ground of which a lease is taken for forty, sixty or ninety-nine years . . . The agreement made, the solidity of the building is measured by the duration of the lease, as the shoe by the ~oot...
...Of The Real Boy and the New School, by A. E. Hamilton, noted educator, it can at least be said that the pedagogical passion here recorded, is tempered with mercy, a keen perception of the humorous side of boy-life, and much common-sense...
...This volume presents a connected series of twelve meditations on death suitable for use by priests and religious...
...New York: D. dppleton and Gompany...
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...In spite of the crimp and the press-gang, the eighteenth-century Londoner had sense of personal freedom...
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...abuse, strip naked, starve or do what he will to the poor in- But when Mr...
...Trades fell into three classes--watch-making, silk-weaving and shoe-making, and the silk trade employed a number of women and children...
...A Series of Three Articles on State Universities I. THE OLD VISITORS 11...
...The Vortex--Starts anywhere and ends nowhere, but has good theatrical quality in two scenes...
...Norris's latest novel, is an oversentimentalized picture of life as it proceeds in the clrcle of a rollicking Irish family, risen irom the soil to comfort and prosperity and bound by ties of great devotion as well as blind misunderstandings...
...I t is the ease with which women and children can be set to work that keeps these weavers in poverty and rags and filth and ignorance...
...This is not a great play, but Miss Harding achieves greatness in it and lifts it to a worthy and distinguished place...
...ARCHITECTURE~PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND DECORATIVE ART --LITURGICAL ART--MUSIC--POETRY--THEATRE Published every two months THE CATHOLIC ART REVIEW London, W. I, England 13 Maple Street Price: $3.00 per ann~m, post free October 2I, 1925 BRIEFER MENTION T HE vigor and enterprise that have made the Norwegian people settled in the United States so important and respectable an element in our population, present further evidence of its pride of achievement and its promise of a great future in the pages of an exhaustive work, by Olaf Morgan Norlie, of Luther College, Iowa, under the inspiring motto of "Americans all...
...Cheap and plentiful corn did not bring prosperity to the people . . . Laboring men and artisans drank strong beer...
...White Cargo--Only if you like to be harrowed to no purpose...
...and these sums were the occasion of feasts known as "saddling the spit...
...and simple religious piety are misunderstood by the village M RS...
...BOOKS T H E C O M M O N W E A L 596 a writer on the poor laws in I738, "to apprentice poor children, are...
...Outside Looking/n--The hobo empire at its best and worst --marred by wholly unnecessary blasphemy...
...Warren...
...such a record...
...The poor called it "the act for keeping children alive...
...New York: Boni and Liveright...
...Hamilton's autobiography, the record of the expansion of his educational ideals, beginning with his boyhood in Mexico City, as a member of a "gang," and ending with his camp in Maine after a brilliant record of teaching at the schools of Intervale and Westhrook...
...and yet Your silences I cherish...
...We must await in patience the proper collection of Sister Juana In6s's works, which Mr...
...scientious GEORGE'S scholar book to reproduce is the successful the life effort and of work a conof gossips, whose young girlhood has been trampled upon, whose the poorer classes during one of the most interesting and child is thought to be dead, and who suddenly discovers that fluctuating periods of London's history...
...The Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor was founded in 1796...
...Hamilton, as a teacher, than on boypsychology...
...THE MIDDLE-AGED MENTORS 11I...
...Vinland, the old Norse name for America, was discovered in the year IOOO by Leif Erikson, who landed with thirty-five men at Helmland, conjectured to be Labrador or Newfbundland, at Markland, possibly Nova Scotia, and at Vinland...
...Picturing an ideal school for his daughter, in the dosing chapter, Mr...
...Miss Schons has modestly entitled her work as Some Bibliographical Notes, hut her survey of the question amounts to much more than that, presenting the best findings of the poetess's previous biographers, noting the paucity of their investigations and the unsatisfactory incompleteness of the editions of Sister Juana In6s's works...
...poignant curtain...
...Newcomers, "forbidden to exercise their trades in the city because they were not freemen," settled north and east of London and in Southwark...
...Irish emigration was of great industrial importance and profoundly affected social conditions in London...
...Bates' varied experience as a student and teacher in State universities thoroughly equips him to evaluate the process of education and the results obtained in these institutions...
...The master may be a tiger in cruelty, he may beat, be learned...
...The steel engravings to be a hardened theatregoer, I would ask him to sit through that illustrate the six chapters are excellent and, as in the the scene where Miss Harding searches the faces of her little case of Hogarth's Gin Lane, verge on caricature...
...The story of Norway in its origins and characteristics is told clearly as a proper introduction to this study of a great wealth of statistical and personal information...
...LADISLAS WEOBLEWSKI is minister from Poland to the United States...
...Name FREE--64-Page far-Priced Edition in 13 volumes...
...The waste of life was at its worst between 172o and spite of himself, in the spontaneous ovation it brings at the I75O...
...dustin: :University of Texas Bulletins...
...If anyone believes himself with vivid quotations and anecdote...
...Oh, Mama.t--The wrong kind of French farce...
...But Kate Walsh, though filling admirably the well-worn r61e of the working girl, still preserves enough honest individuality to make us respect her...
...I love your words...
...ANNA MCCLURE SHOLL...
...W HILE author it will is always select interesting for preference to know among what his poems published an works, it is not always a definite mark of ~heir excellence...
...In this play of a French school-teacher whose retired life provincial France, of the quality which made Charles Vildrac's Michael Auclair a poem of simplicity...
...Irma and the Man--Splendidly acted revival of Shaw's pleasantest comedy...
Vol. 2 • October 1925 • No. 24
