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February 3, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 359 BOOKS A SHEAF OF NEW POEMS From Bersabee to Darij by Michael Earls. Worcester, Mass.: Holy Cross Press. $1.75. Puritan, by Isabel Fiske Conant. New...
...AKE way for my Lord Bishop, the Earl of Bristol and father in God of Derry," an unctuous attendant is crying through the lohby of a hostelry in Rome...
...It contains the old mother songs and the poems of the fireside that are so popular with a large section of our public, if we are to judge by the question-columns of our newspapers, A Book of Lullabies will answer many of these inquiries...
...Other chapters are: Social Science in the New Testament...
...Every priest has a right to be accounted a gentleman...
...A poor man he may well be, but still a knight—still before God, if not in social parlance, Sir Thomas or Sir John...
...There are exact and well-written descriptions of the ordinary Mass, the pontificial Mass, the papal Mass, and the various Uniat rites...
...a third on the Divine Office and other ceremonies...
...For instance, the child-poet, Hilda Conkling is represented by thirteen poems...
...He should be courtly, considerate, helpful, and in all humility never devoid of a certain personal dignity...
...There are bitter tears, thwarted loves...
...New York: Harcourt Brace and Company...
...he himself did not spend much time in them...
...The sects that derive from the monk of Erfurt and the gloomy doctor of Geneva, once their severance from authority was complete, lost no time in embodying their principles in an elaborate armature of doctrine and discipline which left small room for the rebel and the doubter...
...Freeman's standing among the poets of today...
...New York: Harold Final...
...Blind Men, by A. B. Shiffrin...
...but the Continental painters probed deeper...
...London: A. and C. Black...
...They have a right not to be forcibly corrected by one who has no authority over them, one who is not their judge...
...now in prison at Worcester and spending the subsistence money sent him by his loyal wife, to buy her "crimson cloth for a mantle...
...He was a prodigious letter writer...
...New York: A. A. Knopf...
...Stewart Erskine...
...Brawling in church", refusal to raise the hat when the national flag, the symbol of the new devotion, passes, especially if the refusal be accompanied with taunts and blasphemies, are deeds in whose presence the arm of the civil law is not weakened today...
...Noblesse oblige, in the first place, the bearer thereof...
...Which is another way of saying that Sir Philip Gibbs is an observant Englishman, and as such content to tell a very fine story without slobbering over it...
...A Nordic with Mediterranean leanings, he devoted to Roman bric-a-brac and French salons the time he might have spent on beef and boredom and riding after the hounds...
...In the opinion of his contemporaries the Bishop was either an angel of healing and light or the other extreme...
...The fact that this inhibition to shed blood, no matter how just the cause, was so generally respected during the late war is the best tribute to the impression that Quaker sincerity made upon the world's imagination...
...Thomas Walsh...
...They were designed chiefly to shelter the owner's collections...
...The author remembers always that he is in the arena, armed for an encounter to the finish...
...The Earl's first passion supported his second—a relish for architecture and art...
...I * HE mid-winter cornucopia of poetry displays the general A prosperity of the country, and, as usual, there is great variety in these offerings of grave and gay, serious and trivial...
...There is some commotion among the loiterers, and raising of eyebrows as an exquisitely groomed figure, neither lean nor portly, and a little under medium height, descends from a high carriage that has drawn up at the curb...
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...Bernard's hostelry, and was entertained in a style befitting a Roman bishop, which he purported to be...
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...Leonie Adams would be a far finer poet than the average if she had some more positive beliefs, something tangible enough for rough, workaday hands and healthy, active curiosities...
...The broad-brimmed hat and suit of undyed wool become familiar sights upon the world's markets and exchanges...
...In Those Not Elect, one finds a very cultivated spirit, singing lovely fruitless songs—the orchards have ceased to bear fruit but the dead branches are still lovely...
...The Irish liked him...
...But neither for that matter has truth...
...There is a particularly touching stanza in Puritan entitled Secret: "I watched my dearest With his last breath, Start with a soft surprise, Recognizing death— If too soon one knew it, Who under sun Would ever stay upon the earth Till his time was done...
...Erin Samson, Harry McGuire, Lindley Williams Hubbell, and Joseph Frant-Walsh are new contributors to The Commonweal...
...Here may the non-Catholic, deeply impressed but a little confused by the "ancient simplicities" of Catholic ceremonial, find his best vade-mecum...
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...Manchester, Ft.: Magnificat Press...
...now spurring his horse through the Guard of the Lord Protector to deliver his message at the coach window...
...Louise Imogen Guiney is forgotten...
...Therefore, From Bersabee to Dan, Father Michael Earls's spirited collection of ballads, merits a hearty welcome for its generous achievement and its lovely touches of sentiment...
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...Thus he feels, as any sensitive person would, the great charm of the primitive Christian basilicas, San Clemente, San Lorenzo and others, and deplores in no mild terms their baroque restorations, symbols of an age "hypocritically virtuous and vulgar...
...Even of humble parentage a man is ennobled by ordination to the priesthood...
...Commanded by the king to abrogate the death penalty, they skirted it as closely as they dared in the floggings...
...Many and handsome illustrations accompany the text...
...London: The Macmillan Company...
...Eric Gill, the artist and member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, further elucidates his economic theories, foreseeing the "diminution and eventually the abandonment of capitalism" as a corollary to the growth of the Church's mission of social salvation...
...Harry McGuire...
...No church organization lay behind them...
...I have often wished to thank Father Rickaby for thoughts and definitions in other works: a profound thinker, lucid writer, and vigorous propagator of the Faith, Father Rickaby has always been "Sir John," evidencing always in himself the perfect compatibility of gentle courtesy with alertness and fearless vigor...
...It is "a book to be read by a busy man on occasions of leisure, as it was written on occasions of leisure, when other work was not pressing during the last six years of a long residence at 362 THE COMMONWEAL February 3, 1926 Oxford...
...He had not a particle of religion in the accepted sense, but he acted on the sound Christian principle of helping the downtrodden and destitute...
...They were the extreme corporate expression of the right of private judgment, the last wave of the revolt away from authority which began with Martin Luther, and is dissipated today in the froth and spume of individual opinion and disbelief...
...While a conservative mind may be dubious regarding some of the poems included in The New Poetry: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Verse, published by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson, the American, at least, may look with some complaisance on the number of poets of his nation that are represented and honored...
...Although each is, in its way, a satchelguide, neither is written with the dull, Baedeker sententiousness, almost inevitable in the case of most guide-books...
...He put up everywhere at the best hotels, and it was not long before enterprising landlords were turning his patronage into profit and giving their houses his name...
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...An Open Way to Effect Conversions...
...Springfield: Saint Catherine's Press...
...It seems strange that British anthologists should persist in so purblind an indifference regarding North American poetry and so rarely include our singers in their golden books and galaxies...
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...they called him "the nomad" and "the edifying" bishop, showing that they appreciated and forgave him...
...The book is slightly confessional, possessing a plaintive beauty that fades into a mirage...
...Prince Absolom, by John Freeman...
...Thynne reveals himself as a person of vigorous tastes and a definite point of view...
...A Book of Lullabies that will charm many readers long past childhood has been ably compiled by Elva S. Smith...
...Anything that has come into Father Rickaby's mind during the past eighty years, and has not been specifically treated in books, seems to find a place here...
...We make the acquaintance of two women, Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers, "a pair of respectable wives and mothers," marooned at the Island of Malta on their way to "kindle the light of Egypt", distributing their literature under the walls of the Inquisition, and once imprisoned, resisting the most strenuous efforts of sympathizers for four years to find some way of getting them out...
...Father Rickaby in his preface hopes that some of these may be of service for the purpose of the Catholic Evidence Guild...
...I ^HE English don't go to extremes in anything...
...Like the waters* "everything passes," and the song of regret is added to the riches of memory like a colored leaf pressed into the volume of life...
...In Two Lives, William Ellery Leonard reveals the capacities still potent in the sonnet form, with its ringing varieties to tell a story or reveal a scene not too tiresomely...
...Pilgrimages, by Sydney King Russell...
...concludes the reader as he peruses these personal commitments...
...Parks, modernist, Henry VIII and the Anglican church, Dean Inge, artist and Catholic apologist...
...It is not alone that their character, for all its eccentricities, was and is singularly humane, and that their scheme of things left no room for the intolerance that was rampant in the "free" churches from which they broke away...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...New York: The Mucmillan Company...
...Pax, a quarterly published by the Benedictines of Caldey Abbey, maintains, in its winter edition, the high standard of this little review for articles of an orginial and suggestive character...
...Mary Cruttenden Percy gives us in Darius' Feast a charming Persian story in which there are dignity and rhythm in a narrative whose theme is the great veneration of truth held by the early Persians...
...The ballad is a difficult form of poetry due to its demand for an easy singing quality and an unerring taste in simplicity and structure...
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...Walpole called him "that mitred Proteus, whose crimes cannot be palliated by his profligate folly," but Wesley found him "exemplary in all parts of public worship...
...Anna McClure Sholl, contributor on art to American and English reviews, is the author of The Law of Life...
...Prosperity and Persecution...
...We meet Thomas Lurting, the non-fighting seaman, perhaps the most bizarre of all these strange zealots, suddenly stricken with scruples against bloodshed while a petty officer on board a man o' war, and starving to death because he would not eat the king's bread without serving for it, and the puzzled captain could find no article in the regulations allowing him to sell government rations...
...Modern poets seem to know the dawns only at the ends of evening parties and a book like Sister Imelda's will strike them like an early peal of convent chimes and the cool breath of mountains upon flushed and wearied faces...
...Such a scene is simply the composite of many incidents, which the reader receives from Mr...
...The Harp of Dawn recalls one to memories of the sacred hours of daybreak with their religious lights and the innocent freshness of their smiles...
...Every priest and layman, who concern themselves particularly with the liturgical aspect of the Church, should have this little book...
...He had an appetite for collecting pictures and statues, antiques, trinkets, and the debris of noble ruins, and if not checked, he would have carted away to England and Ireland the better part of Europe, decoratively speaking...
...London: Longmans, Green and Company...
...Edgar Lee Masters by twenty-seven...
...Finally, here are those monstrous and Romanesque structures which rose on Celtic and Anglo-Saxon soil—Downhill at Londonderry, overlooking the sea, anJ Ickworth...
...his daughters, pretty and wistful...
...and they are both, in their respective fields, invaluable...
...Are All Men Equal...
...Harriet Monroe by fourteen...
...Sydney King Russell...
...The Commonweal requests its subscribers to communicate any changes of address two weeks in advance, to ensure the receipt of all issues...
...New York: B. W. Huebsch...
...The ordeal was brief, but fiery...
...Moreover, in his notes, Mr...
...There are some interesting paragraphs on the rather enigmatic figure of Father Adrian Fortescue, the authority on liturgy and eastern rites, who died a year ago, worn out prematurely by his immense labors of scholarship and the duties of a large parish with whose faithful discharge nothing was ever allowed to conflict...
...Upon all these persecutors for the established order in church and state, Miss Best is justifiably severe, although not more severe than the case warrants...
...As a boy Frederick was quiet, studious and, in comparison with his brother William, somewhat of a prig...
...Thus: "Ardent champions of the faith sometimes cry out that error has no rights...
...His eyes are fixed steadily on the Gospels, and the plain chant of his poems lacks rhythmical varieties and modern tones, but is filled with the melodious repetends of memories, pieties, and heartwhole devotions...
...Saugus, Mass.: C. A. A. Parker...
...The tolerance granted to religious differences today derives largely from the fact that the more passionate loyalties are transferred to another sphere...
...New York: Robert M. McBride...
...His poems reveal him as a man of the roads, a gypsy, not a scholar...
...Then follows a chapter on the liturgical colors, vestments, vessels, music, and other essential accessories...
...There is cynicism deep enough to become Smiling Stoicism, but never despair...
...Tke Biskop kaa a mania iof tfaVel...
...Prince Absolom, the dramatic poem of John Freeman, is worthy of its lofty form and literary genre...
...February 3, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 361 The Earl Bishop, by William S. Childe-Pemberton...
...New York: E. P. Button and Company...
...Childe-Pemberton, obtrude himself, and never in Strachey method...
...Unchanging Quest, by Philip Gibbs...
...CONTRIBUTORS George N. Shuster, formerly of Notre Dame University, is the author of The Catholic Spirit in English Literature...
...Through the influences of his brother George, then the second JEarl of Bristol, he was created Bishop of Cloyne and later of Derry...
...Essence of Worldliness...
...Yet, in spite of these truant hobbies, he was an able administrator...
...Her work is able and full of suggestion as well as of fact—she handles the difficult subject of the decline of pagan culture in its last home of refuge, with a fine sense of its proportions and significance, not only to the art and culture of today, but of its importance to an intelligent understanding of early Christianity and the arduous struggles of the fathers and founders of the Church amid the sunset splendors of heathen decay...
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...1 HE glories of a vanished race, the moss-grown altars of a half-forgotten religion, the stories of the great and learned figures which with their dynasties and systems have partly lapsed into a mere tradition echoing on the lonely night winds over the desert sites of their templed cities—such is the great sad vision that arises from Mrs...
...Here is the Earl Bishop as seen by English, French, and Italian artists...
...New York: George H. Doran Company...
...They held his treasure and his heart and, for those who cared, the ultimate expression of his spirit...
...His Caravan includes an interesting poem to Donald Evans, a rather feline attack upon D. H. Lawrence, and some really exquisite nature poems...
...to name only a few of the "jottings" contained in the book, ending with the author's gently humorous epilogue: "When I was a boy in Yorkshire, there was a story of a silly old man, who went about with a fiddle that he had made himself, and told everybody: *I made this fiddle out of my own head and I have enough wood left to make another.' Now theSft JOttingS mUSt COme to an end, for there is no more wood left...
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...and Alice Meynell by two...
...He gives a remarkable display of fine rapier work that will appeal to dialectical minds which do not call for colored lights upon their concepts of truth...
...5.00 Handbook to Christian and Ecclesiastical Rome...
...He wrote with persuasion and force, devoid of subtlety...
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...THIS latest book of one of the clearest thinkers and writers in the English language might serve well as a vade-mecum to many who are not specialists and have neither the training nor the inclination to study deeply on religious and moral topics...
...Fully two-thirds of these volumes are in Hervey's own words...
...But men in error have rights...
...In this A enthralling book is a group of very English characters— clever, amusing, philosophic, romantic, loving the little common things of English life, loving one another without any blurb about it—here they are thrown into the maelstrom of the first twenty years of this century, harboring Russian idealists and smiling at their enthusiasms, living through the horror of the great war and the disillusionments of the years after, emerging from it all with faith in God and hope for humanity...
...With other gentlemen of the round collar he shared the privilege of being taken for a Catholic, of passing (when it suited his convenience) for "the real thing...
...Ella Frances Lynch is the founder of the National League of TeacherMothers and the author of Bookless Lessons for the Teacher-Mother, and Educating the Child at Home...
...Spiritual Songs, by Hugh F. Blunt...
...It was the distinction of the Quaker that he posited the theory of direct and personal illumination as the very first principle of his theory of salavation...
...This is as far as Frederick climbed ecclesiastically— .apparently he did not aspire to Canterbury—but it was only the beginning of a conspicuous career of political intriguing, pretty philandering, and the satisfying of two ruling passions...
...Illustrated with reproductions from old prints...
...In Puritan, the poet, Isabel Fiske Conant, refers to her title as "a noble name now briefly in disfavor...
...New York: Harold Final...
...Prince Absolom will add greatly to Mr...
...Volume I: The Liturgy, by M. A. R. Tuker...
...Only occasionally does the author, Mr...
...His book is admirable as a piece of polite polemic...
...J. G. C. LeClercq is a member of the faculty of Columbia University...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...Spiritual Songs reveals this form of realism in poetry, even if Father Blunt cannot claim Leonie Adams's fine touch and delicate harmonies...
...There are men, women, and Herveys," some one of that period is said to have remarked, and the life of Frederick Hervey did not diminish the significance of the classification...
...One misses depth sometimes, and rich fruitfulness in those fancies and images—the absence of the melancholy note is marked and not objectionable, although it seems to weaken the humanity of this singing...
...Philadelphia: Peter Re illy Company...
...Nothing in him should savor of vulgarity, coarseness, boorishness, gross selfishness, or swagger...
...This absolute sincerity and single-heartedness colors all the figures which Miss Best resurrects for us...
...Rebel SaintSj by Mary Agnes Best...
...Avery Claflin is a critic of music...
...There is no doubt whatever that his book is enormously serviceable...
...Landon M. Robinson...
...By so doing he not only imposed the unpleasant role of persecutor on the very men who had so recently capitalized persecution...
...In his old age, after he had sep.arated from his wife and was enjoying to the full his zest for going about, he entertained a plan for exploring Egypt...
...To which might be added for the benefit of the reader that it is well not to sacrifice one's personal opinions to the irresponsible direction of any anthologist...
...Boston: Lathrop, Lee and Shepard...
...In an article on Christian Courtesy, "Deicola" deplores the passing of old forms of respect in speech and writing that were often, as in the old Spanish superscription "I kiss your hands," exaggerated, but which, none the less, were the outward sign of an inward regard for other people's susceptibilities...
...he was 'one of the boys...
...They set themselves squarely against what today would be called "the herd" and the result of such action is always a foregone conclusion...
...These facts about Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry, Earl of Bristol, speak for themselves...
...William Franklin Sands was for many years in the American diplomatic service in Korea and Guatemala...
...He was the third son of John Hervey, Lord of Ickworth, who flourished at the court of George the Third until the fall of Walpole, was reviled by Pope under the sporting epithets of "Lord Fanny" and "Narcissus", and who has gained a slender immortality with the posthumous publication of his memoirs...
...The simple naive quality of these songs will bring pleasure to many readers weary of modern sophistication...
...Stewart Erskine's book on The Vanished Cities of Arabia...
...And if it were, the arm of popular disapproval, evidenced in most extremely physical fashion, would be found an ample substitute...
...The Earl Bishop was but another of those impressive and -enigmatical personages of which eighteenth-century Britain was so full...
...The Churches of Rome, for instance, which is an attractive volume and well illustrated, is full of good things, as when the author, speaking of the Victor Emmanuel monument, calls it "an immense paperweight...
...HE story of the men and women of the Society of Friends A will always appeal to Catholics...
...Henry Longan Stuart...
...We make fresh acquaintance, and not for the first time, with the terrible Endicott, in whom everything that makes us hate the dark side of the Puritan dispensation seems to be incarnate...
...William Ellery Leonard would be as effective, possibly more so, in prose, but we can recognize in him a certain metrical deftness and congratulate him on Two Lives as a tour-de-force...
...Sly dog...
...In his ^arly twenties he married Elizabeth of the house of Danvers, took Holy Orders, and was appointed chaplain to the king...
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...Particularly appealing is his note of insistence on gentleness combined with firmness in necessary exposition of doctrine or of Catholic point of view...
...New York: Harold Final...
...Bynner is truly American, North American...
...With the accession of William Penn to their communion, and the opening up of Pennsylvania by this wealthy and practical man, both the fury of persecution and the excesses that called it forth, die down...
...This is interesting when we consider that, after a century of neglect, the baroque is once more being petted and patronized by our aesthetes, the Sitwells, Huxleys, etc...
...He imposed himself upon the credulity of the monks of St...
...Landon M. Robinson and Cuthbert Wright are contributors of literary criticism to current magazines...
...He -actually purchased the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli with a view to its removal, and was only thwarted in the carrying out of the design by the intervention of the Italian government...
...Each is graced with a dome, while the wings stretch off into space...
...Cuthbert Wright...
...They endowed the subject with character as well as a pontifical dignity altogether absent in the portraiture of his own countrymen...
...driven over the earth by the gad-fly of his unrest—now at the pumps of a leaky ship in mid-Atlantic...
...Here are the Earl's family—his wife, proud and high bosomed...
...plenteous in good works...
...The early Quakers came literally "from the blue...
...BOTH these volumes are handbooks made to be read and carried conveniently...
...He endeared himself to them by a policy of broad tolerance, and befriended alike non-Conformists and Catholics...
...But their lives and writings teach a lesson that Catholics would not wish to see obscured...
...Two Lives, by William Ellery Leonard...
...Error and truth are both abstractions, and abstractions have no rights...
...but fine in his perceptions, frank in his confessions, and lyrical in a vigorous way...
...But the lady was indisposed to make the journey—a heady adventure for its day—and the project was dropped...
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...At the same time, there are certain pleas in extenuation that must suggest themselves to all reasonable readers...
...An Old Man's Jottings, by Joseph Rickaby...
...your (secular) priest a knight, 'Sir John...
...a fourth on the services of Holy Week, especially as carried out in Rome...
...Their leaders were very serious, practical, and intolerant men...
...Perhaps an Englishman may raise his eyebrows a bit at some of our native celebrities in verse who seem to fulfil these Chicago specialists' requirements for Parnassus...
...The Bishop belonged...
...We are shown George Fox, with his wide hat and leather breeches invading the "steeple houses", and calling on the salt of the earth to be salted...
...Childe-Pemberton's elaborate study...
...The Goodness of God, the Hub of Religious Controversy...
...but all are marked by a higher quality that argues our increase in culture and the firmer establishment of a better poetry for the masses...
...The author claims for it no plan, yet the form of the book lends itself in the best possible manner to leisurely browsing, some of his "jottings" covering no more than half a dozen lines...
...Miss Monroe confesses that "every editor feels, and must necessarily reveal, certain unconscious sympathies and predilections: it is better, then, to reveal them quite frankly, without extenuation or apology...
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...Western Haughtiness...
...It is a very terrible narrative, in which the English clergy of the established church and the founding fathers of America carry off the evil honors pretty evenly...
...The second book represents something we have always needed, an adaptation in excellent English for the layman, of the great Italian liturgiologists...
...Allen Sinclair Will's Life of Cardinal Gibbons is reviewed sympathetically, and he is proposed as a typical representative of American education and ideals whom Europeans would be well advised to take into account...
...Democracy and Aristocracy...
...He reduced, to terms of its logical absurdity, the entire principle of individual interpretation of the divine command unballasted by authority...
...Those Not Elect, by Leonie Adams...
...but no suicides...
...The building up of Caldey Abbey, stone by stone at the hands of its faithful monks, goes steadily forward...
...Protestant Christianity, by Thomas Chetwood...
...there was better sport across the channel...
...Carl Sandburg by thirty...
...rarely does one find such variety of thought-provoking subjects within pocket compass...
...These generous gestures, it is true, had their swing back, and his lordship's daughters were kept on short allowances while his son went practically bankrupt...
...It is said that the Bishop regarded a house as a growing creation, to which additions might be made as time went on, and that for one of his mansions he planned as many rooms as there were days in the year...
...The British brush captured the air of well-being and contentment...
...His book is a promise, nothing more...
...It is not surprising to see in the records of the society many and many a startling reproduction of the shining deeds and virtues that the Church chronicles in the records of its saints...
...1 N the keen, incisive Jesuit manner, Father Chetwood discusses such questions as the virgin birth of Christ, Dr...
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...The Churches of Rome, by Roger Thynne...
...Of all the challenges which the Quaker flung in the face of the world, only his aversion to war survives today to mark him off from his fellow citizens...
...Freeman handles the story of David and his sons with a fine constructive sense—his choruses are in powerful strophes and in a grand manner, reminiscent of the old, and touched slightly with the new manner in poetry...
...To old William Brend, an aged Quaker, after he had been in irons—'neck and heel'—for sixteen hours, the infuriated jailor [in accord with Endicott's orders] gave . . . ninety lashes Vith a tarred whip, leaving him unconscious, his body a black and blue pulp, the blood 'hanging in bags...
...The story is at once a tragedy and an idyl—famine and futility paint red across its pages, yet the last scene is of lovers in the twilight...
...a doer, not a thinker...
...Missionary and Medical Man...
...Rebel Saints, by Mary Agnes Best, is the story of these people during their days of trial and persecution, in England, America, and in whatever part of the world attracted their vagrant impulse to witness for what they conceived to be the truth...
...Blind Men, by A. B. Shiffrin, reveals a vigorous young talent, 360 THE COMMONWEAL February 3, 1926 sincere and forceful, without great endowment of color or philosophy of life...
...For thirty odd years George Fox and his followers, men and women alike, were hunted like wolves, scourged, given over to mob-law by magistrates and pastors, hounded into noisome prisons with felons and cut-throats, and deported over-seas...
...Witter Bynner's volume, Caravan, is compact with brave, full-throated singing...
...1.50 A Book of Lullabies, compiled by Elva S. Smith...
...Even after years of European frenzy, hate, carnage, they are tetter love-makers than extremists...
...There is much more of New England in his soul than has generally been noted...
...Caravan, by Witter Bynner...
...In the visions, the sudden "calls", the all-embracing charities of the Quaker, what we are watching is spirituality, oozing drop by drop from a body of belief ill designed to hold it, and which is to harden before a century has passed, into the most arid system of belief and conduct the world has ever witnessed—eighteenthcentury evangelical Protestantism...
...The Harp of Dawn, by Sister Imelda...
...New Poetry: An Anthology, by Harriet Monroe and Alice C. Henderson...
...The priest should ever hold himself bound to knightly behavior...
...William Franklin Sands...
...It is a pleasant vision indeed, upon which to close the eyes in the stress and turmoil of mechanized life, this of a community in postwar England realizing the life and craftsmanship of the ages of faith when work was done by "hammer and hand...
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...He was the favorite of his distinguished grandfather, the first Earl of Bristol, and was addressed in letters as "my dear, good grandson...
...Hfc tMSZ lflflg VHCHtlOflS from episcopal duties in Italy, France, and Germany, and for two years at one time and for ten years at another, did not set foot in the diocese committed to his charge...
...The expedition was to be of a serious nature and to include authors, artists, scientists and, not least, the "divine Comtesse...
...and his son, with a splendor that dazzles---at the hands of Gainsborough...
...There is terrible suffering among them, but no villainy...
...In Pilgrimages, there is a biographical note that adds firmness and quality to the correct and otherwise rather intangible singing of Mrs...
...The cause of Irish independence found in him a supporter, and indigent artists, a munificent patron...
...His brief sketch of a priest is altogether charming: "In mediaeval England your bishop was a baron, 'my lord...
...BRIEFER MENTION The Vanished Cities of Arabia, by Mrs...
...It is told with a simplicity almost Grecian, and points the case against imperialism and war without too many modern damns...
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...He is escorted to the most elegant quarters the house affords, and scarcely has the valet opened the traveling case and put toilet articles on the bureau than a delegation of architects, painters, and interior decorators calls and discusses with his lordship the plans for an immense and capitoline building which is to adorn his estate in England...
...Darius' Feast, by Mary Cruttenden Percy...
...To build up the character of a true knight, a knight indeed of Christ, that is the aim of the long years of training that the Church insists on for the priesthood...
Vol. 3 • February 1926 • No. 13
