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Shuster, Henry Longan Stuart, George N.
Wife is deeper, nearer the core of real human difficulties. That is why its inherent interest surmounts even obvious de- fects. It does, however, leave you with one curious question. Why does Walter...
...To me, it had the aspect of an unfinished play---or if not, then one with a very futile last gesture...
...The adventures and antics of Pinocchio, the wooden puppet, will take a firm hold upon the nurse-librarians and their little readers for a long time to come...
...HENRY LONGAN STUART, The Phantom Public, by Wa$ter Lippmann...
...T HOSE, who are led by the title of Mr...
...Democracy has never developed an education for the public...
...The Life and Times of Bishop Challoner, by Canon Burton (London: Longmans...
...There have been various reprints, but the judicious purchaser should endeavor to secure a copy of the edition published by Keating, Brown and Company in the early part of the last century, because of the quaint woodcuts with which it is adorned...
...In Selecting Your Plays (The following list includes allplays reviewed in The Commonweal--favorably or otherwise---which are still play- ,nO m New York...
...That such disenchantment exists seems ob-vious to Mr...
...RZVEREN0 R0SEgT F. KF~GXN is secretary for charities to His Eminence, Cardinal Hayes...
...He finds that the increase in the eligible vote is matched by a decrease in the percentage of citizens actually voting...
...The New Age of Faith, by John Langdon-Davies...
...Mr...
...The End of Controversy emerged as the only other printed thing, with the result that at Hong Kong, the ship's destination, the mate recovered in body, made for the first Catholic presbytery and did not leave it until he had been reconciled to the Church, of which he remained a most faithful son for the more than fifty years which he had still to live...
...Saint Claudia, by Marshall N. Goold, was awarded the first prize in the Drama League contest of 1924, and it had its first production by the Pilgrim Players of Evanston, Illinois, in the First Congregational church...
...He is WELL...
...But this should not prevent us from appreciating as it deserve* the truth which his agreeably tonic bolus holds as its main in- gredient...
...There is considerable insight in his perception that America, by reason of its very prosperity, will be the last country in the civilized world to shed this facile reverence...
...But the conclusions to which Mr...
...In Cincinnati there flourishes a hardy band of lyric writers, who, nothing daunted by the material century or the reports of the stock market, produce annually a little anthology that breathes the spirit of culture and refinement of their state...
...Mr...
...And dress...
...And it is likely that the average American clings to his vote fundamentally because he treasures the power of expressing a moral verdict upon occasion...
...Lippmann is at some pains to explain away the moral aspects of social action...
...Accused--A fine Belasco cast, headed by E. H. Sothern, in an absorbing play of Brieux's...
...In her last years she became a Christian, according to Origen, and eventually dying as a martyr to her faith, was canonized by the Greek Church as Saint Claudia...
...Hence this book deals with a very stirring period leading up to Bernard Ward's The Eve of Catholic Emancipation, I8O3-I829 (London: Longmans...
...It is rather a credulity in the panaceas and theories pro- pounded by the schools of thought that have most busied them- selves in uprooting the old beliefs, a sentiment of trustful con- fidence that the hiatus left in the human soul can be filled by what they have to offer...
...For him, communal good and evil are relative: "An opinion of the right and wrong, the good and the bad, the pleasant and the unpleasant, is dated, is localized, is relative...
...Hamlet--A new and superb interpretation by Waiter Hampden in the heroic mood...
...The Poor Nut--One good hippodrome scene and little else...
...Your shoes afflict...
...Without attempting any discussion of an assumption so headstrong, we may observe that the American program of democracy has been primarily an endeavor to voice the public feeling on issues of moral importance...
...It is richly illustrated with drawings of very quaint and appropriate character by Attilio Mussino, many of the pictures being in color and very amusing...
...But as that struggle progresses, there must come many an opportunity to recognize the value of the political criticism which Mr...
...Milner should be studied in'his own works...
...Some of Mr...
...T HE initial reaction of the reader to this new book by the New York World's writer of editorials is likely to combine irritation with perplexity...
...II Reprint at reduced price, $1.00...
...It is unattainable...
...Outside Looking/n---The hobo empire at its best and worst --marred by wholly unnecessary blasphemy...
...19oo...
...executive action is not for the public...
...Cincinnati: Ohio Valley Poetry Society...
...Wtu'te Cargo--Only if you like to be harrowed to no purpose...
...A VERY fine edition of this Italian classic of childhood has appeared under the imprint of The Macmillan Company of New York...
...the man to whom we owe the original Garden of the Soulmso unlike the modern work of that name-- and the notes in our Catholic English Bibles...
...The ddventures of Pinocchio, by C. CollodL New York: The Macmillan Company...
...On request...
...Stylishly, comfortably, correctPEDIFORME SHOES...
...Note: Why not a revival of The Taming of the Shrew...
...The pursuit of it is mis- leading...
...That is fully described in The Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman, by Wilfred Ward (London: Longmans...
...Lippmann's dicta might conceivably lead are in-teresting to speculate upon...
...I818) in three volumes, if only for the sake of the plate of the tree of the Church with the rotten branches of heresy dropping off, de- signed by the great bishop himself...
...CONTRIBUTORS REVERENV RON^LD KNOX, an English writer, is the author of Some Loose Stones, A Spiritual Aeneid and Memories of the Future...
...If possible, it is best to secure the first edition of this book (Keating and Brown...
...36 West 36th Street 322 Livingston Street New York Brooklyn, N. Y. READ THIS CAPTIVATING NARRATIVE...
...then the Irish who fled from famine and fever...
...Milner could and did say harsh things and had the same said of him, and whatever may be urged against him in that direction, he saved the Church in England and in Ireland from chains-golden, perhaps, but chains none the less...
...Well might the question be asked which is inscribed around a view of Oxford hanging in the room in the Birmingham Oratory, where, in days gone by, the Cardinal (not then a Cardinal) used to see visitors--"Fili hominis, putasne vivent ossa ista...
...Joseph's Oratory, Moffnt Royal, Montreal PRICE, $1.00--POSTPAID, $1.10 On sale at all Catholic Book Stores or direct [roqn WILLIAM J. HIRTEN CO., Inc...
...Lippmann's premises have much in common with those of Charles Maurras...
...This book deals with the Catholic martyrs and confessors from the time of Henry VIII to the last under Charles II, Fathers Wall and Kemble, martyred on the same day, one near Worcester, the other near Hereford as a result of the machinations of that choice scoundrel, Titus Oates...
...1911) in which again Milner is one of the great dominating characters, as indeed he must have been at any period during his active life...
...Why does Walter Craig meet his problem by not meeting it...
...This alignment of assertions will, I believe, be acceptable to most people who have had opportunity to observe the trend of American life...
...It has, in fact, aimed not at making good citizens but at making a mass of amateur executives...
...I862) without any doubt the dullest book that ever was written about a great man whose life simply palpitated with moments of interest, should next be read...
...reader finds himself halfway through the book before e realizes it, led on by the engaging and forceful style, with s simple and unanswerable reasoning, its wealth of illustra- |] tion and epigram, its old truths presented so strikingly as to II1 seem new intellectual treasures now apprehended for the first I] tlme...
...Nineteen hundred and sixteen found him in Boston wringing his hands and despairing for the future of humanity: for were not the Nordics the noblest race of human beings, and were not the Germans being wiped off the face of the earth ? . . . Then America entered the war, and as Mr...
...The ideal of the omnicompetent, sovereign citizen is, in my opinion, such a false ideal...
...For the public, then, any rule is right which is agreeable to all con- cerned...
...They Knew What They Wanted--Sin, punishment and forgiveness in swift and powerful sequence...
...I have attacked certain of the confusions (in the theory of democracy) with no conviction except that a false philosophy tends to stereotype thought against the lessons of experience...
...The Life of the Right Reverend John Milner, by Provost Husenbeth (Dublin: Duffy...
...But the "faith" which it is his business to notice and "purge" --the word is his own--is not the secure belief in tradition and inspiration which the religiously minded take pride in profess- ing...
...In short, he leaves you with a punctured political ideal, and without a tangible substitute...
...Stoddard's science was based on nothing better than emotionalism, it is not surprising to see it shift some of the premises which did not fit in with the new order...
...To clergy and laity there is evident a crying need for material of dignity, dramatic and artistic value, worthy of the approval and prestige that these dramas ask of the Church...
...New Style Book K...
...or in quite another direction, his History of Winchester in which he shows himself to have been the morning star of the revival of Gothic architecture...
...The period of Milner is covered in The Dawn of the Catholic Revival in England (1781-18o3) by the late Bishop Bernard Ward (London: Longmans...
...Like many clever and thoughtful English authors of the younger school and of all shades of be- llef--like Father Ronald Knox, for example--Mr...
...The Green Hat--Mr...
...Stod- dard's cropper over the late war receives attention...
...We recall with something very like a smile the enthusiasm of the elder Bourget who, witnessing the horrors of the Commune, said, "Ahl when these poor fellows once get universal suffrage, it will be a different world...
...One Macmillan Book a Week -MAN I By MARTIN J. SCOTT, S.J...
...The Butter and Egg Man---Mostly good comedy spoiled by occasional offensively bad taste...
...These Charming People--Cyril Maude and Edna Best tiptoeing on Arlen d~bris...
...They're perfect foot forms...
...Its author pricks the bubble reputation of a good many frauds and quacks, rattles the back- cloth on which a good many sham perspectives have been painted, underlines the real motives that have rendered the theory of human perfectibility and progress, popular and cred- ible in the past, and leaves the reader to make what he can out of his conviction that the new lamps are not giving much better light than the old...
...That great struggle was not one fought by rosewater methods...
...It is high time to take a stand against that profligacy of education which undertakes to drill youth in the complexities of government, hoping thus to make good citizens...
...GrORCE N. SHUST...
...She has a self-effacing sincerity which will carry her far...
...1915) brings the story from I83o to 185o, and thus to the threshold of the restoration of the hierarchy...
...4 Man's Man T HE Stagers, with Edward Goodman directing, have launched their season with the first full length play of a new author, Patrick Kearney...
...Some of it shows poor judgment...
...These and similar heroes are described in this book...
...But in the last act, you find something very fine indeed~a quality of forgiveness, mutual and self-understanding, and a humble willingness to begin a11 over again...
...Wall prophesied, and truly, that he would be the last to suffer death for the Cathollc faith in England, and Kemble immortalized himself with the populace in a curious way...
...5.00...
...Hay Fever--A mildly stimulating comedy of character without plot...
...Lippmann arrives, as of the conclusions to which he does not arrive...
...New York: Harcourt, Brace and Uompany...
...As a result the Drama League of America in I9X9 set itself the task of stimulating an interest in the writing of worthy dramas and a religious drama contest was inaugurated resulting in some two hundred and eighty-five plays...
...It seems that Mr...
...things which shower a light of hope into this dim, distressing atmosphere...
...In that county, the last pipe before friends part, is still called a "Kemble pipe," and up to recent years on the death anniversary of the martyr, the scattered Catholic men of the neighborhood used to collect round his grave and there in solemn silence smoke a pipe to his memory...
...Now bless...
...2.50...
...to support the Ins when things are going well...
...If further study is desired, there are his Letters to a Prebendary, a fine example of the cut and thrust controversy of the day...
...Headaches, moroseness...
...The Sequel to Catholic Emancipation, by Ward (London: Longmans...
...Too much box-office blasphemy...
...BOOKS BOOKS ON ENGLAND'S SECOND SPRING tt~T O LONGER the Catholic Church in the country...
...Arras and the Man.--Splendidly acted revival of Shaw's pleasantest comedy...
...I899) and his Eve of the Reformation (London: Nimmo...
...A Man's Man tells with caustic realism and fine sympathy of the futile ambitions, the depress- ing handicaps, the childish credulity, and the tragic mistakes of that generation which has lost the sturdy character of its day-laboring parents but is still unequipped for "the great rise" of American life...
...that current ideas of electoral reform are all based upon the fallacious conviction that you can bring home to the individual a deeper sense of civic responsibility by increasing the size and importance of the ballot...
...Langdon-Davies's scheme...
...then, most unexpected, the stream from Oxford...
...Kearney himself a few years from now--would find ample power in the theme itself without tawdry ornamentation...
...And yet in spite of everything, when all seemed hopeless it was as if the word of the Lord came as in the prophecy--"A quatour ventis veni, spiritus, et insuffla super interfectos istos et reviviscant...
...The text of the drama, in excellent blank verse, follows closely on the Evangelists, and would offer a worthy model to the producers of our Passion Plays and other parish dramatic authorities for the coming Lenten performances in our church hails...
...BROTHER ANDRE By WILLIAM H. GREGORY A New York Newspaper Man's Impressions of St...
...Ailments caused by feet...
...Tortured him...
...That time and the later period when the second spring had come, and the sermon from which quotation has been made had been preached, are easily to be followed in this book...
...the world war because the Lusitania was sunk and because the Germans were supposed to be eating little Belgians...
...I do not know what the lessons will be when we have learned to think of public opinion as it is, and not as the fictitious power we have assumed it to be...
...Kearney's realism is dramatic and serves an honest purpose...
...Lippmann has courageously and tellingly codified...
...Repining at his dullness, he ordered the steward to bring any book on board except the Sailing Directions...
...That point joins another, a series of books concerning which has already been dealt with in these columns...
...Claudia Procula is said to have been a Roman lady, married to Pontius Pilate...
...Nervous Irritability...
...Of course the most important of these is The End of Con- troversy, a work which must have converted thousands as it did a friend of the writer--then a mate on a sailing ship, un-interested in religion, who, having fallen off a yard and broken his leg was condemned to his bunk for weeks...
...The great debate here is there- fore going to be a debate about morals, not government...
...Is Zat So.t--The best character comedy of the year, hung on a poor plot...
...2.00...
...MARY D~XON TH^YER, author of Songs of Youth, is a contributor of poetry and fiction to current magazines...
...John Langdon- Davies s, The New Age of Faith, to expect any cheering news concerning a return of the world in the direction of dogmas and restraints will speedily be disillusioned...
...In it also is the early history of the Oxford Move- ment with which Cardinal Wiseman was so closely associated from outside...
...It was an Irishman who carried the flag of victory on the stricken field of emancipation, and it was an Irishman who had to bear the brunt of the conflict around what was called papal aggression --a conflict, it must be admitted, provoked very largely by his own flamboyant pastoral, Out of the F]~aminian Gate...
...ERNEST SUTHERLAND BATES is a contributor of literary criticism and articles to the magazines, and was formerly on the teaching staffs of Oberlin, Columbia, the University of Arizona and the University of Oregon...
...This is Miss Hutchinson's first important appearance in New York...
...But how many today, wholly without good Hannah's charity, salve a conscience that is no more enlightened with pseudo-scientific tags furnished them by racial and economic charlatans ? Among the former Class, Mr...
...Can the com-promise be maintained in practice...
...At present, it is the only one on Milner who was the man who saved Eng- land from the veto, acting as the agent of the Irish hierarchy and in the teeth of his own pusillanimous countrymen, lay and cleric...
...to support the Outs when they seem to be going badly, this, in spite of what has been said about tweedledum and tweedledee, is the essence of popular government...
...The Pelican--Well acted, well constructed, play on a thin and unpersuasive motive...
...Stolen Fruit--In which Ann Harding achieves greatness and lifts a good play to distinction...
...But to the man or woman whose faith is anchored in convictions with which fashions of thought have little to do, The New Age of Faith proves rather an amusing "jeu d'esprit...
...Langdon- Davies cultivates the flippant method and sense of humor which is so deadly an offense to dullness and the "heavy thinker...
...Dwight Frye and Josephine Hutchin- son, as the young couple about whom the action centres, con-tribute rich feding and admirable restraint...
...Dec said...
...Some good Chris- tian asked if he could do anything for the old man, who replied that he would like a pipe of tobacco which was at once pro- vided for him, and after smoking it, he went to his death con- tentedly...
...THE PEDIFORME SHOE CO...
...There is only one chance of avoiding the supreme danger to the human race . . . namely, the danger of not being able to conquer the difficulties of the environment...
...But his book is well worth reading, if only for its pitiless ex- posure of so many evolutionary fallacies...
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...The book attacks the democratic assumption of an authoritative, active and executive public opinion by the simple expedient of negation...
...A more mature artist--surdy Mr...
...and in the end the weal of the republic will he decided by whoever can direct the American standards of right and wrong...
...When it does not, it perverts the true possibilities...
...InlYpI='DIFORME SHOES...
...19o9) is a most admirable account of a truly great man who lived through the worst days, including the Gordon Riots...
...It is not so much a question of the conclusions at which Mr...
...Bill got them...
...CLINTON SCOLLARD is the author cf Songs of Sunrise Lands, The Lyric Bough, and From the Lips of the Sea...
...He is interested, as who is not, in the economic basis for so much popular religion, and realizes that prosperity has lain at the roots of much smug trust in providence...
...nay, no longer I may say, a Catholic community--but a few adherents of the old religion, moving silently and sorrow- fully about, as memorials of what had been...
...An old man of eighty odd years, he was, in accordance with the bar- barous custom of the time, being dragged on a hurdle some three miles out of Hereford to be executed...
...Aden's weak-willed heroine obscured by the glamor of Katherine Cornell's all-too-good acting...
...Boston: The Pilgrim Pre~s...
...The volume for I925 contains charming pieces by John Williams Bortherton, Adelia Brownell, Gilbert Kenton and John and Dorothy Bunker...
...Langdon-Davies's b~te noire is Lothrop Stoddard, whom he includes with others less promi- nent today in a chapter entitled The Race Fiends...
...I9o9) and of course among others, that great character is dealt withJmany have thought somewhat severely and even unjustly...
...From the four winds of the earth in very truth, for there were first the French exiled priests and religious orders at the time of the French Revolution...
...Corns, bunions, fallen arches...
...TIw Catholic World...
...The deductions drawn by our author may be summarized, a little swiftly and crudely perhaps, as follows: "it would seem better to say that government consists of a body of officials, some elected, some appointed, who handle . . . problems which come to public opinion spasmodically...
...New York: The l/iking Press...
...I1 At your book store or from |l THE MACMILLAN COMPANY il60 Fifth Avenue New York, N. Y. II Atlanta Boston ChleaSo Dallas San Franelaeo Bill Was Ill Continually...
...The Roman Catholics'--not a sect, not even an interest as men conceived of it"--and so on in those marvelous passages of English which Newman left us in his sermon, The Second Spring...
...His stow...
...Certain sensitive nerves...
...He simply withdraws from the house...
...EUGENR C. DOLSON is a poet and contributor to American publications...
...All this sounds very desolating...
...There is no excuse for his adoption of the current blasphemy fad...
...25 Barclay Street New York, N. Y. THE CATHOLIC ART REVIEW An illustrated critical review covering all that is best in Catholic art of the past and the present...
...It follows that the public interest in a problem is limited to this: that there shall be rules, which means that the rules which prevail shall be enforced, and that the unenforce- able rules shall be changed according to a settled rule...
...Lippmann...
...That man, under the impulse of unsound generalizations, is tampering with the very "laws" he has laid down, is the theme of the author of The New Age of Faith...
...I897...
...An ideal should express the true possibilities of its subject...
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...Overshadowing the bishop in the later periods is the huge figure--huge in every way--of Daniel O'Connell...
...REVEREND HENleY PINARD DE LA BOULLAYE, S.~.~ iS a professor of theology residing in Enghien, Belgium...
...The point is worth making to show that the disestablishment of the democratic ideal would mean fight- ing over the ground covered during Ioo years of political life...
...Religion counts for little in Mr...
...Surely an interesting tale and one worthy of study by the historian, and by those not professional historians yet interested in the great movements of thought...
...He has been roused to keen interest only when some question of right or wrong appeared...
...Is this a real surging of manhood--or just an escape...
...by Marshall N. Goold...
...The conscientious reader who desires to prepare a suitable historical background and who has plenty of time, should certainly read first of all, Cardinal Gasquet's Henry VIII and the English Monasteries (London: Nimmo...
...the Spanish war because they be- lieved in the liberty of Cuba and abhorred the sinking of the Maine...
...or his conflicts with Butler, a fellow Catholic, but unsound on the veto...
...It's your feet...
...The Gorilla--The best spoofing of mystery plays in many a day...
...when nobody any longer objects there is a solution...
...The failure to achieve it has produced the current disenchantment...
...Whatever may have been the stand taken by officials, the Ameri- can people entered the Civil War because they disagreed about the good and evil of slavery...
...All hands to the environment," is a slogan that would not unfairly sum up his conclusions...
...MARK O. SaRIvzs is a lawyer and writer on economies and politics...
...W HE development and widespread use of inexpert and badly written so-called religious plays has sadly lowered the standards of the sacred drama...
...Wiseman could and did rouse the storm, but no other man living could have stilled it as he did by his subsequent marvel- ous manifesto, To the People of England, which appeared in the London Times...
...only when somebody objects does the public know there is a prob-lem...
...where particular problems arise, the ideal is a settlement by the particular in- terests involved ;" "in an absolutely static society there would be no problems...
...Hannah More, in i8Ol, telling the starving poor of Shipham that "scarcity has been permitted by an all-wise and gracious provi- dence . . . to show the poor how immediately they are de-pendent on the rich," strikes us today as a rare figure of fun...
...Science or what has passed for it, he sees clearly, does not receive the same respect in a hard pressed age that was accorded it when there was not the same urgent call upon its saving formulas for proof that they could save...
...P OETRY, it seems, survives the assaults of the comic man and the business instinct of many Americans...
...Thus he will understand and appreciate the next book which he should endeavor to secure--Modern British Martyrology, in which is incorporated that great work, Challoner's Memoirs of Mis- sionary Priests...
...Langdon-Davies's book is destructive and satiric rather than constructive in intention...
...The spirit breathed and the bones began to be re-clothed with flesh, until today the fair face of Catholicity shines once more in England...
...The public acts only by aligning itself as the partisan of some one in a position to act executively...
...It is true that the author, in his introduction, tells us, that "no other age has been so noticeably an age of faith as the twentieth century...
...The average citizen has cared very little about the methods of government or the organization of executive power...
...The Vortex--Starts anywhere and ends nowhere, but has good theatrical quality in two scenes...
...Folks once plagued with...
...You will be fascinated by its picturesque simplicity...
...Applesauce--Amusing characterization in a comedy of smalltown life...
...Ohio Valley Verse, Second Series...
...If he would reincorporate the representative principle into American life, he must face the fact that that principle was itself an historically inevitable com- promise between monarchy and democracy...
...That of thousands...
...It is to be re- membered that Milner with the Irish hierarchy at his back were fighting a desperate battle against the English aristocracy and even the hierarchy, who were willing that the Church should be more or less enslaved so that the miserable ban of exclusion from social and political life imposed by the Penal Laws should be lifted...
...The peculiar fantasy that has made Pinocchio so long a favorite in the nursery is well preserved in the sympathetic rendering from the Italian edition, by Carol Della Chiesa...
...A problem is the result of change...
Vol. 2 • November 1925 • No. 26
