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274 THE COMMONWEAL January 13, 1926 BOOKS Parnell, by St. John Ervine. Boston: Little Brown and Company. $4.00. NO PUBLIC man of western Europe, in our time at least, had a life that...
...The modernist then interprets every article "in accordance with the intellectual atmosphere he is breathing" and proceeds to describe himself as repeating "the ancient words ex animo...
...One is especially impressed with the completely dishonest character of the modernist effort to combine his belief in "a perfectly human, non-miraculous Christ," with acceptance of the creeds which Anglicanism still maintains...
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...the B. L. F. & E. may thank God every night it prays that it is not like that vicious yegg, the I. W. W...
...We have lived to see the assembled priests and bishops, aware of their impotence through their lack of moral courage, urging the Irish people not to commit unauthorized murders...
...The book's special value lies in its apt selection of quotations from leading modernists of the Anglican church and its American daughter (especially from Bishop Henson, Dean Inge, Dr...
...He holds that crime cannot be defined as an unlawful or wrongful act...
...G. K. Chesterton contributes a preface which emphasizes some of Father Woodlock's points with characteristic acumen...
...Thomas Walsh...
...For instance—"The W. C. T. U. may rustle its skirts and wipe its spectacles askance at the doings of the K, K. K...
...These pamphlets served to the Elizabethans, the place now taken by our newspapers and periodicals...
...It is thus made clear that the modernist denial of miracles "precedes all exegesis," as Renan acknowledged years ago, and that when modernists say "a just God would not and could not autocratically break through the laws of nature...
...Having eliminated all objective conceptions of justice and right and the notion of natural law, Dr...
...The vigorous action of Pius X at that time was described as obscurantist and reactionary by nearly all Protestants but its necessity and its salutary nature hardly can fail to find recognition at the present among the more conservative of our separated brethren...
...The manner of life and spirit of the age are revealed in these soundly edited pamphlets...
...To quote Mr...
...Walsh to one of the prominent members of the Welch family of Philadelphia, whose eyelids fluttered peculiarly when mention was made of a family connection...
...Her biographer rises to a climax where he declares that "endowed with those gifts of fascination and charm for which the crowned Stuarts were famous, Mrs...
...This represents the temper that he so frequently allows to master him, the rhetoric into which he so often falls...
...Lundstedt's criticism of the Geneva policy and of the League of Nations contains many points which are valuable if torn from the background of his unreasonable radicalism...
...Lundstedt would destroy...
...George Smith of Saint Edmund's College, Old Hall, Ware...
...Wakh overlooks, that it was the regiment de Walsh which entered our country at an eventful moment at the siege of Yorktown on board the fleet of Admiral de Grasse...
...As Dr...
...You know how to pronounce our name," he said, "but we know how to spell it...
...Padraic Colum...
...De Consolatione Philosophiae of Anicius Manlius Severinus BoethiuSj by Adrian Knoppesford Bowles Fortescue...
...indeed, he must know by this time that the historical situation is in contradiction to certain passages in his book...
...However, it is the keeping of a peculiar rhythm, which he accentuates with the patting of hands and feet or swaying of the body, that marks the American negro's music as his own...
...our folklorists should be told that this is one of the few ancient families who can lay an established claim to the possession of a Banshee...
...Thus Bishop Gore calls the idea of faith "a basis of security in the strength of which it is probably good for every Christian to feel a certain amount of hesitation...
...Walsh's book closes with the date, 1690, which precludes a mention of the more modern exploits of this practical and at the same time highly literary "nation" of the Walshes...
...Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602) by Thomas Campion...
...We are told all that could be considered remarkable about this vigorous personality: a great deal about her family history and her claims of descent from the Bruces and Stuarts of Scotland: very little, indeed, is said about the family descent of her wealthy Boston husband, John L. Gardner...
...1 HE fifth volume in the new definitive edition of the work of William Butler Yeats contains not only the early poems, some of which he never surpassed in years of more formal composition, but also the majority of fresh and naive studies of Irish life and literature that illuminate the enthusiasm and glow of youth in the poet's prose...
...Pigott, forger and devoted father...
...International justice then would be tantamount to right by might...
...but we will find that both direct and indirect coercions emanate from the same source, run much the same course, with the same results so far as freedom of the individual is concerned...
...Nor is there a moral justification for punishment...
...The text follows the edition of Rudolf Peiper, with the corrections of August Engelbrecht, making a very superior volume for the scholar who retains his Latin, and for those who like a handsome text...
...Surely a more dishonest piece of sophistry never has been perpetrated by an honest man...
...Marston's satire gives insight into the Elizabethan mind...
...Mr...
...In his first book, The Clash, he championed French Canadians...
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...Lundstedt continues, in a discussion of crime, punishment, and liability, to seek the true foundation of law...
...Major) and in analyses of the chief modernist positions, as keen as they are succinct...
...Edwin Clark...
...As for Wolfe Tone he was a coachmaker's son, and his connection with the demesnes, if I remember a passage in his memoirs aright, was through his being born in a gate-lodge on some estate...
...NO PUBLIC man of western Europe, in our time at least, had a life that gives such scope for dramatic presentation as had Charles Stewart Parnell...
...JAMES WELDEN JOHNSON, secretary of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, editor of The Book of American Negro Poetry, and a student of music has ably edited this book of spirituals...
...The public welfare, therefore, is the sole basis of all law...
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...he triumphed over the greatest of the world's newspapers...
...Against a background of national misery and national aspiration he stands out as a figure that is also a portent...
...He makes quick work of existing ideas regarding the actual, fundamental basis of law...
...If we accept theories of evolution, we admit that homo sapiens came into existence at a certain stage of development of his ancestors, and that from then on he had de facto a rational (including also social) nature, with regard to which an ultimate principle of fitness can be found, which we call natural law...
...This text is the hinge on which Mr...
...Moreover, he states, a law of nations cannot possibly exist, because mankind is not organized into one community, and because the necessary sanction is lacking...
...He dealt with the greatest of the world's parliaments...
...The abortive movement led by these men and others, would have reduced the Church, as the Pope clearly saw, to "a broad and liberal Protestantism," as Jansenism represented an attempt to infect the Church with the Protestantism of an earlier age...
...Of course no bishop, letting alone "assembled priests and bishops" ever spoke of unauthorized murder...
...Bishop Weldon, deprecating excommunication of the modernists in 1921 said—"I think their theory is wrong, but it may be right...
...He became especially prominent at camp meetings where, in later Jays, he had his songs printed and sold them for five cents a copy...
...Early Poems and Stories, by William Butler Yeats...
...Thus, with a firm hand directed by a twinkling eye, does Mr...
...The bishop's words sound as though they had been put in the mouth of a fictitious Jesuit by some unscrupulous controversaiist of former days...
...He proceeds to answer this with the reasonable explanation that the spirituals were the outgrowth of the slaves' passionate need for a saving faith...
...Jowett's translation...
...it suggests, not the nonsense of an individual, but a general, a cosmic nonsense by which an individual has become infected...
...Then there are the beasts that creep out of the Celtic soul, and there is Celtic cruelty and all that sort of thing...
...Gardner happily was not shadowed by their ill-fortune...
...he made himself the dictator of a proud and ragged people...
...One persistent tradition is disposed of in this book...
...Punishment is but an essential part of criminal law, or the sanction necessary to render it effective, and its objective, therefore, is the law-abiding citizen rather than the criminal, who is more or less a martyr for the good of the community...
...The Commandments of Men, by William Henry Moore...
...January 13, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 275 (The word has an impersonal quality...
...At five great county conventions, where the attendance included more than a hundred priests, resolutions in favor of ParnelPs continued leadership were passed...
...London: Burns Oates and Washbourne...
...Dr...
...Touring the country to arouse interest in their race and raise money for their university, the Fiske Jubilee Singers gave concerts consisting chiefly of negro songs...
...the brilliant but secondary men who made up the Irish Party at the time...
...Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts actually argues that clergymen who cannot accept the virgin birth may "with honest heart" join in the recital of the creeds since these are concerned with essentials and the virgin birth is not to them an essential...
...He argues that the commandments of men have (in America at least) crowded out the commandments of God, with the result that freedom has been curtailed and individual effort hampered...
...New York: Charles Scribners Sons...
...The natural law, therefore, is founded on rational nature and discoverable by reason...
...J\ REALLY excellent study of the hardy little kingdom of Norway is that issued in The Modern World series by G. Gathorne Hardy, who has shown his fitness to handle the questions of these northern nations in his earlier work, the Norse Discovery of America...
...This last observation is the only one in the essay that smacks of resentment—and certainly it is a not unnatural resentment nor yet an unsound statement...
...Or does he mean to strike a fatal blow at these conceptions in his argument against natural law...
...Walsh, the Archbishop of Dublin, suggested that Parnell might temporarily retire, not on moral grounds, but on grounds of expediency...
...Superstition or Rationality in Action for Peace...
...After the war, agents for gospel hymn books reaped a harvest from the new free man...
...it is simply an act which is punished...
...The fallacies of this argument are painfully obvious...
...Kirsopp Lake, and Dr...
...It is a source of disappointment, therefore, to find that this book is devoted mainly to a criticism of domestic jurisprudence, with the subject indicated by the title placed in the background...
...He tells us that natural law cannot be based on the rational and social nature of man, because if we search far enough back in time we shall come to a stage at which "the ancestors of both Romans and other peoples did not possess as much faculty of reason . . . as a crow or a sheep," and man finally became rational and social as a result of operation of laws which sprang from the needs of selfpreservation...
...We who seek for our social hobbies, the backing of a benevolent lunching club, or the support of a "lodge" or "court/' will squirm as we read...
...Hardy faces a highly sensitized people with the mind of a philosopher and friend, giving us interesting and at times profound chapters on Norwegian national development, the Swedish union, the language question, religion and education, and a fine study of the Bonde, the Norwegian farmer folk...
...John Ervine got the phrase from Mr...
...I cannot love God with my mind and at the same time believe that the laws of nature are ever violated," and so forth, they are speaking not as critics but as exponents of a philosophic school remarkable for its utter failure to appreciate the historic Christian conceptions of God and the miraculous...
...At the beginning of his first lecture Father Woodlock rightly declares that "a Catholic pulpit is protected from modernism...
...An incidental feature of Father Woodlock's discussions are the highly significant quotations showing the powerlessness of more conservative Anglicans to deal effectively with modernism, however much they may disagree with its excesses...
...his relations in the European services had court connections...
...Those of Greene, Nashe and Henri Chettle, already reprinted, have proven provocative and informing...
...The law of nations, being founded on the phantom of natural law, is purely a fancy...
...There was in the old days—and still is to some extent today—an established order of bards who were paid in food and clothing much as the preacher was paid...
...Around him move famous personages and ambiguous men and women—Gladstone, O'Shea, husband of a faithless wife...
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...In form the spirituals run strictly parallel with African songs, incremental leading lines and choral iteration...
...Harry Baldwin...
...It would be a grateful task to go on praising the high merits of a book on a great Irish leader written by one of the ablest and one of the most famous of Irish writers, but there is a defect in it, and that defect must, first of all, be dealt with frankly...
...he had an education that made the education of the Cambridge graduate merely elementary...
...Campion's observations were in the way of an experiment...
...Having settled this question apparently to his own satisfaction, Dr...
...And the late Bishop Potter of New York many years ago refused to sign a manifesto on the Incarnation "lest future generations might be hampered in their freedom of belief...
...To this the amused Firbolgian Celt has only one word to say —"Remeis"—which means—"Nonsense, dear man, nonsense...
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...Worse than so, "the law of nations has the same foundations today as it had when Grotius . . . brought out his famous work De iure belli ac pads...
...Many new lines were added during a revival, when the need was felt to keep up the singing unbroken until a sinner was brought to conversion...
...John Ervine shows that it was not the Irish Catholic but the English non-conformist outcry that put Parnell out of the political arena...
...Regarding "alphabetic societies" the arguments are at once sound and amusing...
...She was a dominating force in Boston, rather eccentric as well as at the same time dominated by the clever hangers-on of people of great wealth...
...Moore's logic swings...
...New York: Kelmscott Press...
...The songs were added to until they frequently reached the mythical "hundred verses...
...Walsh, Welsh, Wallis and even Valois are only some of the more obvious cognomens of the "nation," whose Gaelic name is Brenagh, while many real Walshes are concealed under, the names of Holden and Howel...
...The meaning of the word "symbol" as "a test of orthodoxy" is by the modernist, as Father Woodlock says, "applied to the creed in the other sense in which it is opposed to literal truth and is often less significant than mere metaphor...
...Johnson—"Here they were cut off from the moorings of their native culture, scattered without regard to their tribal relations, having to learn a new language and adjust themselves to a completely alien January 13, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 277 civilization and held under an increasingly harsh system of slavery...
...A man can write a fine life of Parnell and make such mistakes, of course...
...It is more than a mere service to private vanities that the author renders in this really fine book, interesting as it is to all Walshes, dear to the large number whose "mother was a Walsh," and important to all Americans who will remember what Mr...
...The African's conception of music is rhythm, not melody, but in his new home the negro learned melody...
...And there is a judgment, a generosity of feeling shown in the book that leaves one sure that Mr...
...He seeks to justify this situation, however, by saying that in order fully to understand his criticism of the so-called law of nations "it is first of all necessary to obtain an insight into the deeprooted fallacy of our current conceptions regarding existing law within a state on which domestic jurisprudence...
...When one considers these things it is more understandable how he produced "a body of songs voicing all the cardinal virtues of Christianity —patience, forebearance, love, faith, and hope...
...Lundstedt, to say the least, is radical, and in his radicalism he makes a general appeal to rationality as contrasted with what he calls superstition of the legal profession in general...
...Morris Carter...
...The outcome of such a spirit would be "the legal organization of the United States of Europe and America...
...Johnson points out the kinship of Spanish and African music, both having a strongly marked rhythm, the Spanish also beating out their rhythm with the feet in dancing...
...Alison Phillips, who got it from the Unionist Irish Times, who got it from the same place that General Charteris got the cadavers that the Germans boiled down into fats...
...John Ervine, I instance his mention of Daniel O'Connell, of unnamed Irish bishops, and of Wolfe Tone...
...It is a pity to have to use space in dealing with such lapses, but the reviewer of a book as important as this has to show where allowances have to be made for the author's misconception and wrong information...
...New York: The Macmiltan Company...
...As a fact, after reading the title, one is puzzled by the author's admission in his preface that "this book is intended as an attack on current theories of jurisprudence," written particularly for the benefit of the English speaking public...
...He contrasts the leaders of the Irish people taken from the "demesnes" with the leaders taken from the cabins...
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...And The Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us, and we saw His glory, as it were of the Only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth...
...And those of us who would acquit our obligations to charity by membership in an "alphabetic society" will, if honest, ejaculate "touche...
...In Marston's The Scourge of Villanie, we have a series of satirical portraits in Verse, which are the forerunners of the satire of Dryden and Pope...
...The reason why they are bad mistakes in this book is because they are not merely mistakes in fact—they illustrate mistakes in temper...
...In his treatment of the modernist attitude toward the creeds, toward Christ, and toward miracles, Father Woodlock is dealing with views more or less familiar to all who have followed in the daily press the controversies that have marked the present crisis in Protestantism...
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...Father Woodlock has illustrated his discussions by quotations from several modernistic writers such as Loisy, Le Roy and Tyrrell...
...Lundstedt, whose writings have caused lively discussion in his own country for the past five years...
...Some twenty years ago there was, humanly speaking, grave danger that this would not always be the case...
...She lived to old age, collecting with more or less taste and acumen the bric-a-brac and works of art of Europe...
...and a perusal of this volume with its views of fine old castles, genealogies and Latin documents will foster a pride of race and a sense of dignity that will not harm too many of our Americans of Irish extraction...
...It is not necessary to recapitulate in a review, the great and tragic story of the rise and downfall and death of the Wicklow squire who came to dominate both Ireland and the British Parliament...
...This is the legend that it was a denunciation of Parnell by the Catholic hierarchy which brought about his downfall...
...Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company...
...Such views applied to the gospels can only make a far-fetched pretense to genuine objectivity...
...To these he has added an introduction and a concluding chapter on the prospects of Christian reunion...
...They became and were acknowledged as "more Irish than the Irish themselves...
...Now, with colored artists like Roland Hayes, Paul Robeson and Mary Anderson (the latter with the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra) the spirituals are ^enjoying a great—and highly deserved—vogue...
...The descendants of this Anglo-Norman-Irish family founded In Erin in 1170 by three Welsh knights, Philip, David, and Geoffrey, may well be proud of a long list of achievements, great wealth, spreading estates and lordly castles denoting the power of the barons and chieftains "of the Mountain," "of the Island," and the south of Ireland, with important connections with the greater Irish and Norman families and the rulers of Church and state for some four centuries down to the ruthless confiscations by the English toward the end of the seventeenth century...
...Fiske, the university for the colored man, made the first •effort to recapture the racial songs...
...he lost the great stakes he had played for because of his passion for a woman who was the wife of another man...
...John Ervine has the knowledge, the insight and the art to make the great scenes live for us— Parnell in the House of Commons, at the Parnell commission, on Irish platforms, in the committee rooms, in the divorce court, on the platforms from which he makes his last appeal...
...James Welden Johnson's introduction is interesting and scholarly...
...One recalls the portrait in the National Gallery in Dublin—and what a pity it has not been given as a frontispiece to this book instead of the dead-looking photograph that faces us as we open the cover—where he stands with sheet-lightning in his eyes and a bearing taut with defiance...
...The author's shafts are many-pointed and varied, but they are not shot at random...
...In vain does one look for the Professor's proof of such assertions...
...It is obvious that men whose attachment to supernatural Christianity rests, after all, on a basis of uncertain opinion, however intense that attachment may be, can do nothing permanently effective toward the stemming of the rationalistic tide which is sweeping away so many of their brethren...
...How fully adequate was Christianity to that bewildered, estranged race is proven by the fact that the negro could accept it at all—"this religion so different from that practised by those who introduced him to it...
...MOORE is a protagonist of minorities...
...This use of the hands and feet for marking rhythm is, of course, to some degree, characteristic of all folk dancing...
...John Ervine will one of these days, come to read some of the passages he has written with a wry face...
...The idea that punishment and liability are founded on duty to the community he discards on the ground that this could be true only if we assume the existence of objective duty, which he calls "an absurd combination of two words, void of meaning...
...In vain do they worship me—teach for doctrines, the commandments of men...
...Quoting as he does from a poem used some years ago in The Century he shows himself a poet on his own account— "O black and unknown bard of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire...
...New York: The Viking Press...
...FATHER WOODLOCK'S little volume includes three lectures given in the Farm Street church in London in February, 1925...
...Here, we can observe their interest in romance turn jaded, and become supplanted by sex and psychology...
...WORLD peace is a subject of sufficient importance to enlist one's interest, and one necessarily approaches with a great deal of expectation a contribution from the pen of an eminent jurist such as one sees in an incumbent of the chair of civil and Roman law at the Royal University of Upsala, in( this case Dr...
...And he attained to such power and such tragedy in sixteen years of combat...
...His return was looked for by the people who had given him allegiance...
...In Campion and Daniel may be observed the turn from the exuberance of life—the gusto that swept through the first lyric song of the period—to the critical turn of mind, which fell to examining into the art of poetry...
...Saint John, 1.) T. Lawrason Riggs...
...nay, more, as it has had for about 2,000 years, ever since the time of Roman law," and yet "people continue to allow themselves to be influenced by superstitious ideas which are proved to be 2,000 years old...
...It is fitting that a dramatist who also has the gift of narrative, should write the life of such a man...
...So long as states claim rights, the only interpreter of its rights in any given issue will be the particular state itself, and war remains the only means of vindicating them...
...Moore uncover the faults of a society-ridden society...
...Lundstedt proceeds to apply his principles to international law...
...Similarly, he denies the objective reality of justice and morality...
...The existence of actual facts corresponding to these conceptions (righteousness and justice) would presuppose that there was an objective norm according to which it could be decided what was per se 'righteous* and 'just/ Such a norm cannot, however, be found . . . Moral conceptions depend upon our feelings and emotions, and, therefore, are entirely subjective...
...John Ervine has had a great theme given him and he has written on it entertainingly, movingly, brilliantly...
...The Scourge of Villanie (1599) by John Marston...
...Just a little while ago, the then minister of education in the Irish Free State told us of the sort of rhetoric that would be indulged in the moment Irish culture was spoken of in connection with an Irish educational policy—"We shall hear about Firbolgs and gutturals and the brogue and potheen and Donnybrook Fair and so forth," It is precisely this sort of rhetoric that Professor MacNeill's fellow-Ulsterman, St...
...These songs were the negro's religion and his recreation and the only property he could hand down to his children...
...By A. V. Lundstedt...
...The Book of American Negro Spirituals, edited with an introduction by James Welden Johnson...
...He preaches the gospel of man, rather than that of men...
...If God delivered the Jews in their hard case would He not, in His own good time, deliver the black race, "Aunt Hagar's children*' as the negroes styled themselves...
...Immediately following emancipation, the spirituals, so clearly an outgrowth of slavery, fell into disregard...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...J. C. Walsh, with a restrained hand, traces the fortunes of some of these banished chieftains in their careers in Austria, France, and Spain...
...One can imagine the joy with which the negro first heard of the enslavement and deliverance of the Jews...
...The music has been arranged by J. Rosamond Johnson, composer and vaudevillian...
...1 HE story of a strong-willed woman of wealth and the group which many interests combined to gather around her, makes up the splendid memorial volume, Isabella Stewart Gardner, prepared by Mr...
...John Ervine, has fallen into in his Parnell...
...London: Longmans, Green and Company, $4.50...
...his connections made him a man of the European world...
...The singer traveled from one community to another teaching his songs which were partly his own, partly inherited from his fathers, and partly the contribution of each new singer...
...Christianity, with its promise of future compensation for the ills of this life was a glorious hope that to reject was spiritual suicide...
...Lundstedt shows that we have not yet devised the mechanism by which this may be accomplished...
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...Had the author of the present work found it possible to include a chapter on the views which brought forth the encyclical, Pascendi, the parallels would have been interesting and the moral impressive, but as it is, the little work is of interest to all intelligent Catholics and a fitting companion to the same author's earlier volume, Constantinople, Canterbury and Rome...
...in his family there were famous European titles...
...Lundstedt rejects individual right except as an epiphenomenon of legal protection, so he denies the existence of right of states...
...How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre...
...He had an ancient ancestry—he was born to an estate and an acknowledged leadership...
...On the clerical coercionist the comment is—"While the parson's right hand is pointing sternly toward the prison cell, his left hand seems to be but falteringly raised toward Heaven...
...BRIEFER MENTION Isabella Stewart Gardner mid Fenway Court, by Morris Carter...
...Naturally of a dramatic temperament, naturally musical, is it any wonder that they sang of Moses leading the chosen people across the Red Sea, of Daniel in the lion's Jen, 01 Jacob's ladder, and Joshua at Jericho...
...A fine biography, indeed, in spite of the faults due to a too much indulged-in rhetoric—one cannot lay it down until one has read all through it...
...Similarly, he rejects the idea that a nation should assume moral blame, or that it is liable to punishment or damages on account of injuries inflicted by its government or by private individuals on another nation or its representatives...
...Now leaving altogether out of account the political merits of O'Connell and of Parnell, it has to be said that in everything that is conventionally looked on as marking a gentleman, O'Connell was far beyond Parnell...
...Even the word "Firbolg" is introduced...
...Edited by G. B. Harrison...
...Much in the same manner he tries to show that liability to damages does not arise from the rights of individuals, since these are only an aspect of legal protection, nor from duty, but it merely serves as a necessary sanction of civil law...
...At the beginning of the book, two quotations are juxtaposed by what is well nigh a stroke of genius...
...They are— "Either he should discover or be taught the truth about these questions: or if this is impossible, I would have him take the best and most irrefragable of human theories, and let this be the raft upon which he sails through life, not without risk, as I admit, unless he can find some Word of God which will carry him more surely and safely...
...musical arrangements, by J. Rosamond Johnson...
...He rejects the notion of right as inalienably associated with man, asserting that individual right is merely an aspect of the protection afforded the individual by law...
...He became a legend—like Finn MacCumhal, like King Arthur, like Charlemagne and Czar Lazar...
...The consequent necessity of an authorative and infallible Church should appeal to the "AngloCatholics" to whom Father Woodlock so charitably refers...
...The love of the Norseman for his native soil, his persistent delving into his past and his preference for the historical even in his fiction—the desire that Norway shall be an individual, not a submerged element of a Scandinavian federation, are all clearly outlined and explained in a very attractive style...
...is based...
...As an example of how far away from the facts of Irish history the use of this special rhetoric carries St...
...London: Longmans, Green and Company...
...they simply are implied in the existence of the community...
...John Ervine is provincial in Parnell...
...And of compulsion we are told that "the 'good' that is raised by compulsion will not stay up, and the 'evil* that is suppressed by it will not stay down...
...r IAHIS excellent series of Elizabethan reprints is as inA teresting in its period and as worthy of attention as Dutton's more popular Today and Tomorrow series...
...Walsh from 1170 to 1690, by J. C. Walsh...
...Dorothy Thomas...
...For example— "We may doubt whether the Irish, to whom terror and intimidation and corrupt practice and mean bargaining are the instruments of government, are yet ready for any rule than that of stern dictation...
...he is content to reiterate throughout his treatise that conceptions of this kind are superstitious...
...it parades the ideas and manners, then of general appeal...
...They called forth Daniel's rejoinder, which was distinctive from the others by its courteous and civil tone, and which set it apart from the general note of abuse that pervades these pamphlets...
...Toronto: Oxford Press...
...Norway, by G. Gat home Hardy...
...276 THE COMMONWEAL January 13, 1926 Modernism and the Christian Church, by Francis Woodlock...
...Amongst the leaders taken from the cabins is Daniel O'Connell, and amongst the leaders taken from the demesnes is Wolfe Tone...
...And the pity of it is that the reading of a single book— Daniel Corkery's The Hidden Ireland, by revealing to him how ancient and how complex the ethnic tradition of Ireland is, would have helped him out of the provincial, would have saved him from a deal of rhetoric—the usual rhetoric indulged in by Irish writers who have taken a provincial standpoint and who view Ireland, not as the nation that it is but as the colony that they think it is...
...He would substitute for the League of Nations as presently conceived "a world-social spirit which will drive out the chimera of right...
...To those who still cling to the ideas concerning the basis of law which the Doctor calls superstitious, the problem remains how international law may be enforced and administered peacefully...
...X HE great work of Boethius appears in a remarkably fine edition prepared by the scholarly Adrian Fortescue and after his death issued, in token of memorial, by Dr...
...Plato's Phaedo, 85...
...He further argues that criminal as well as civil and political law are based not on the state as a legal person, nor on the will of the people...
...JOHAN LlLJENCRANTS...
...Reaching dimly for equality, the negro felt he must be like the white man...
...Apparently, according to the Professor, the antiquity of an idea is a measurement of its superstitiousness...
...THE extent and reach, high and low and far and wide, of a primitive stock like that of the Walshes may be estimated from a retort made by a Mr...
...Yeats may have written more correctly as the years advanced, but it seems to us that in such poems as the Wanderings of Usheen he rendered his dream in fullness and vigor, fragmentary yet pulsing with the sunset glints of his best vision...
...in The Commandments of Men he pleads for that most neglected of all minorities, the individual...
...It may seem rather doubtful whether his plea for materialistic international communism will win a hearing before a people who have successfully built a federation of states on the very principles Dr...
...A Defense of Ryme (1603) by Samuel Daniel...
Vol. 3 • January 1926 • No. 10
