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Healy, Patrick & Windle, Bertram C. A. & Wright, Cuthbert & Cresson, W. P.
BOOKS Congress, the Constitution and the Supreme Court, by Charles Warren. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3,50. /CONCERNING what has been called the "eternal triV> angle" of...
...He was no Gothic enthusiast like so many of his contemporaries and co-religionists, but a seventeenth-century English Tory, thoroughly Italianized, a dangerous type as the proveb tells one...
...Frank's work is justified in his Salvos...
...Warren's temperate and lawyerlike reading of the lessons of history will doubtless be disappointed to find that he avoids to some extent any full treatment of that most controversial of present-day constitutional issues—the Volstead act...
...An examination of conscience leaves us in parlous* uncertainty between the shadowy questions of propriety and the taste of the compiler...
...Conditions in New Jersey did not differ much from those in western New York...
...Yet, in view of the welcome accorded Mr...
...Here is a curious fact: Those at the far end of a long concert hall listening to the notes of some great singer, who is also being "broadcasted," actually hear those notes a fraction—a very small fraction-—of a second later than persons twenty miles off who are getting the concert through the ether...
...Hadrian VII (Arthur Rose) is, of course, Rolfe as he liked to fancy himself on drear wintry afternoons when he February 17, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL put his book together in his lonely suburban lodgings...
...Brooks's volume is, of course, limited to a consideration of the more important and representative activities of the United States...
...Even the idea of a set of fundamental laws "unalterable and unFebruary 17, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL amendable by a majority of the legislature" was "a purely American idea...
...It would be impertinent to speak of his promise as he has reached the point of actual achievement...
...Warren is willing to allow to the Fathers not only a share of human frailty but also of fallibility...
...Reason may mislead us...
...No supposition about Rolfe could possibly be stranger than are the facts of his odd career...
...We have room in our critical and theatrical world for such influences and we may thank Mr...
...With Sir Oliver Lodge, the Canadian scientist notes "rapid progress combined with fundamental scepticism" as the characteristic of the age in which we live, but is hopeful that the cold fit which has succeeded the "cock-sureness" of the age of Tyndall and Huxley is passing...
...Somehow or other we seem to have met funnier limericks than most of those in this volume...
...Experience," said one of the members of the convention, "must be our guide...
...In fact, the classic renaissance was his elect period...
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...In these inhibited conditions, he began his masterpiece, Hadrian the Seventh, in which he allowed his imagination to roam freely in marble halls, and from the very Vatican to dominate the map of Europe...
...Bertram C. A. Windle...
...At any rate, beyond that is space with the dead cold of space— 273 Centigrade, and what else...
...He seems like a scholar and condottiere of the Italian renaissance, transposed to the key of the 'nineties, born out of his time into the era of pew-rents, publishers, and mean streets...
...The list of Catholic scientists with which Sir Bertram furnishes us should be a sufficient answer to the rather decrepit taunt, seldom heard today, except in the mouth of those who use speech, not to conceal thought, but to hide its lack...
...Leslie, who wish his soul well, wherever it may be...
...One need hardly insist on the brilliant galaxy of Catholic astronomers, so very many of them priests— one almost associates astronomy with the Church...
...To the modern "labor leaders, social reformers, so-called progressives, radicals, and others unhampered by a knowledge of facts," who "still make the charge that the Court has usurped the power of passing on the validity of acts of Congress," the author pays his compliments in no uncertain terms...
...BRIEFER MENTION An Anthology of Catholic Poets, compiled by Shane Leslie...
...One has only to add a fact which may well have been the salvation and, in this world, the saving grace of this talented and unhappy man, and to add it in his own words, that he was "an obedient son of the Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman see, and that he submitted himself and all that he wrote to her judgment...
...SHANE LESLIE has prepared an excellent body of Catholic poetry from English literature—it is too bad that he has assumed a title to which his work does not at all conform...
...Cuthbert Wright...
...Here Mr...
...This is better than trying to please everybody and failing to please anybody...
...walks in the city and smiles at the Roman children...
...Zwierlein centres his attention principally on the growth of Catholicism in Rochester, as forming "the background for the long episcopate of its first bishop, with which the subsequent Catholic history of the place was largely identical...
...Father McQuaid, we are told, lived through some of the native American disturbances and riots in New York City, but his spirit of forebearance was so great that in later life he could forget these inconveniences of his youth, and "at a time, when the majority of Catholic priests...
...There is an interesting account of Copeau of the Vieux Colombier and his relations with Andre Gide and Peguy...
...The physicist is always on or near the top of the bank, which intervenes between his own territory and that of metaphysics, and time after time he will find himself, whether intentionally or not, taking a stroll on the other side of the boundary...
...He was baptized an Anglican, and was for a time an under-master in several schools for boys...
...his mind is clear...
...All in all, however, the book is adequate, reliable, and inspiring...
...To avoid disillusionment it may be well to refer page by page to the short and pertinent paragraphs which he has devoted to this matter: On page 147 he uses the attempt of Congress to enforce this much disputed measure "by authorizing padlock injunctions in an equity court instead of trial by jury," to illustrate the startling fact that "if Congress can thus abolish a jury in the punishment of this criminal offense, it can do so with reference to any other crime of like nature...
...Veiled names of personages and places, a whole dim continent of late nineteenth-century Catholicism and Anglicanism, and finally, the strange terra ignota of the author's personality, enticed me, but all in vain...
...I had known him ever since university days, been variously moved by portions of his best book, Hadrian the Seventh, and longed to know all of him...
...Sectarian tactics cunningly adapted to minds cramped by sectarian teaching made use of the familiar methods of vilification from pulpit and press, dissemination of anti-Catholic tracts, spurious appeals to patriotism, and the organization of a secret oath-bound conspiracy, the Know-nothing party...
...This was the idea implied by Gladstone's mid-Victorian, historical aphorism that "the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off by the brain and purpose of man...
...Warren proves in nine weighty paragraphs, carefully sought their precedents in the existing, tested constitutions of the states, notably those of New York and Massachusetts...
...Laplace, Volta, Galvani, probably Ohm, and, of course, the great Pasteur are a few whose names are household ones, used hundreds of thousands of times a day in the course of science and business...
...New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons...
...It had a great reputation in its day and ran into several editions but, most undeservedly, has fallen into such neglect that it was quite recently seen by the present reviewer under the heading, Occult, in a second-hand book-catalogue...
...Patrick Healy, S.T.D., is a member of the faculty of the Catholic University of America...
...Like Mr...
...Sound goes only 1,200 feet per second through the air but radio vibrations go 185,000 miles per second...
...He lived at a period when the shackles of Cicero were falling off the arms of Latin diction and syntax, and he found a language enriched and beautified by the Augustan poets in which to give full sway to his poetic, artistic and psychological temper in the Agricola, Germania, Histories and Annals...
...Frank adopts them...
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...Brooks for this careful study of relations between the United States and Germany during the critical period following the Armistice...
...On the whole, the book proves once again that the policy of this country remains very like what it was when Grant ordered the Confederate soldiers to take their horses with them for the spring ploughing—a policy nobly reaffirmed by General Henry T. Allen when he defended his chairmanship of a committee to gather funds for the relief of starving German children by saying: "America never waged war on children...
...Like all really great, written instruments, the American Constitution was the result of long developed precedent and a period of more or less actual experience...
...directs a sort of crusade against atheistic France and communistic Russia (Rolfe detested France) revives the Roman empire in the West, dividing it between his good friends, the Kaiser and the King of Italy...
...Yet, before imposing upon posterity the bonds and barriers of so rigid a document, its framers, as Mr...
...His personality appears to have attracted almost as many as it repulsed, and I'am sure there are many, like Mr...
...Despite its manifest absurdities, such as the silly and spiteful parody of the British Labor movement, the book, considered only as a yarn, has violent movement, raciness and tang, while the colors are splashed on thick and glowing by a remarkable pictorial imagination...
...The authors in their day were among the leaders in their own branch of science, and Sir Oliver occupies a similar position among those of today...
...CONCERNING what has been called the "eternal triV> angle" of constitutional powers upon whose equilibrium of check and balance the smooth working of our government machinery depends, Mr...
...Frank for the usefulness of his Salvos...
...Zwierlein's preface conveys the impression that he has some doubts that he will please everybody...
...The general recognition of the originality and pithiness of Mr...
...At other times he dreamed with poignancy of his missed priesthood...
...Sir Bertram, as is his wont, is particularly severe on the vulgar error which has given mere working hypotheses the rank of ascertained facts, and shows clearly how much ground, considered as definitely captured from the schoolmen, has again become disputed territory through the discovery of the atomic theory...
...Abbe Hauy, the discover of the law of symmetry in crystals...
...New York: Boni and Lweright...
...Later, Rolfe quarreled with Monsignor Benson, as he did with almost all his friends...
...Moreover, he has that rare faculty of making even abstruse facts and theories intelligible to those who have had no previous training in the subject with which he deals...
...Frank is wise and young...
...What about our real selves...
...Breckenridge Long (who has just brought out an able study of the colonial background of the same subject) the author of Congress, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court makes clear that an historical incongruity is involved in the idea that "during eightysix working days of the convention, its members originated something entirely new...
...With comparatively little help from outside they built churches, organized parishes, set up schools and hospitals, while enduring all the hatred and obloquy which Protestant bigotry and calumny could raise up against them...
...Respecting the charge that "these powers were usurped for the first time by Chief Justice Marshall," he quotes the answer of Lincoln to Stephen A. Douglas with respect to a similar misapplication of historical precedents...
...What he was, Dr...
...r I ^ HOSE who are familiar with scientific writings today A must often have noticed that those of physicists, whose business it is to deal with the problems of matter, are so much less materialistic than those of biologists, who, nominally at least, turn their attention to living things...
...contemplated writing a joint romance on the subject of Saint Thomas a Becket...
...He calls attention to the fact that even before the meetings of that august body, the liberty-loving highlanders of the Massachusetts Berkshires, distrusting the extreme Federalists of the eastern half of the state, "had actually prevented the courts from sitting in the county until the people of the state should adopt a constitution prescribing a bill of rights which the court might enforce...
...A paradox ? Not at all...
...The pioneer Catholics in this portion of the United States were Irish and German immigrants...
...Like his previous study, The Supreme Court in United States History, which won for its author the Pulitzer prize, this later work is also avowedly written for "laymen and lawyers alike...
...It transmits light (and other things, like radio for example) at an absolutely definite pace, and to do that it must be an entity with a definite constitution...
...In Mr...
...It was the possible "tyranny of the legislature," not the "aggressions of the supreme court," that aroused the Beards and Borahs of the days of strenuous debate that followed the constitutional convention...
...1HAVE always desired to know something definite of the recondite and elusive author who signed himself sometimes "Baron Corvo," sometimes "Fr...
...Clearly something for there can be no such idea as a region where there is nothing, and, moreover, there must be a something to convey to us the 4i6 THE COMMONWEAL February 17, 1926 vibrations from the sun and other things...
...Mostyn (Talacryn) and several other well known persons, some of whom are now dead...
...It was through the heroism and fidelity ot the pioneer Catholics that the state of New York, without a bishop of its own at the beginning of the century, had, before the century ended, seven well organized dioceses with flourishing educational and charitable institutions, and a large and zealous body of clergy...
...Now Mr...
...He establishes shower-baths in the Vatican and abolishes red plush...
...the pair went off on a walking tour, and...
...T. W. CONTRIBUTORS Canon Ernest Dimnet, well known in the United States as a lecturer on international affairs, is the author of Prance Herself Again...
...In her foreword Miss Wells declares that a complete book of American limericks would be impossible for several reasons, and she attempts an anthology of the best...
...Thus, Bishop McQuaid explained in a letter to Archbishop Corrigan why he had refused to preach at the month's mind of Archbishop Bailey: "In a calm review of the Archbishop's episcopal career, necessarily much would have to be said of Seton Hall and the Sisters of Charity, and the credit of both in whole placed to his account...
...In 1886 he was received into the Catholic Church, and from that time nursed a desire for the priesthood which seems to have haunted him throughout his life...
...So, at least, the physicists tell us...
...Much of their work was, of course, new and original...
...A. R. Orage, formerly editor of The New Age and now a contributor to prominent American periodicals, is the author of National Guilds, Nietzsche in Outline and Aphorism, and in collaboration with Major C. H. Douglas, Credit-Power and Democracy...
...What relation have they to the ether ? What we know of our bodies is the knowledge which we gain from our senses, and we have no sense which helps us to detect the ether and its doings...
...and dies, shot by an anarchist, in Bernini's piazza, giving his blessing to the city and the world...
...Rolfe...
...Much would necessarily be added if the story were to be complete—the details of the relations between the army of occupation and the people among whom it lived, as well as the chronicle of what was done charitably but quietly by such organizations as the Central-Verein...
...Frank seems to recall the late James Huneker in his insistence on notes that produce an exotic effect...
...American Limericks, by Carolyn Wells...
...W. P. Cresson, former secretary to the American Embassy at Fetrograd and now lecturer to the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, is the author of Diplomatic Portraits, and other books...
...The best drug for the prevalent mental condition," Sir Bertram tells us, "is a stiff course of scholastic philosophy, as efficacious as quinine is for ague and, to many, as bitter...
...Similarly with the sun and, of course, our present-day radios which employ the same medium, in spite of their slogan—"The air is full of things you shouldn't miss," the fact being that the air has nothing to do with the case...
...In the thick of the crass materialism of the mid-Victorian period—a biologically induced materialism by the way, since it was the offspring of Darwin and Huxley—two of the most distinguished physicists of the day, Professors Tait and Balfour Stewart published, at first anonymously, but afterward under their two names, a very remarkable book entitled The Unseen World to aid "the orthodox in religion" who were "in somewhat evil case" and "aghast at the materialistic statements nowadays freely made (often professedly in the name of science...
...The Subjunctive in Tacitus, by Sister Winifred Mary Carmody...
...The book is well printed and, therefore, it is hard to understand how Levi Silliman Ives becomes L. Sullivan Ives, except, perhaps, through the grace of conversion...
...Leslie's phrase...
...The average reader of Mr...
...The "three C's" of our government are as essential to the political education of the average citizen as the "three R's" to the school boy—and about as difficult to make interesting...
...Daniel Sargent is a poet and critic, who has published Our Gleaming Days, and The Road to Welles-Perenne...
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...H L S America and Germany: IQ18-1Q25, by Sidney Brooks...
...The Life and Letters of Bishop McQuaid, Volume /, by Frederick J. Zwierlein...
...There is just one way in which the ether gives itself away— one way only...
...While it pleases me to have this done by others, it scarcely suits me so far to forget the truth...
...Bertram C. A. Windle, a foremost authority on the relations between religion and science, is the author of A Century of Scientific Thought...
...Qui facit per alium, facit per se, is true in one sense, but not in every sense...
...FRANK has given us in his Salvos a boek of his declarations on subjects ranging from the declaration of war to chapters on the Little Theatre, Charlie Chaplin, and Shakespeare and the Empire...
...It may be suggested that a majority of present-day citizens, likely to consult a work on the Constitution at the present time, will do so in seeking light on this subject, rather than for any other reason...
...Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry...
...The manner in which these poor people, driven from their own countries by religious discrimination, continued their struggle for faith and conscience in alien and hostile surroundings is not only a record of courage and devotion, but was a powerful factor in the upbuilding of American institutions by forcing those who lived under these institutions to give more than lip service to the principles on which they rested...
...In tracing the history of the Constitution, the author has adopted a course different from the earlier writers who seem to have attributed its perfections to an "era of demigods" who flourished at the time of our Revolution...
...Louvain: Librairie Universitaire, A. Uytspruyst...
...Naturally, a supersensitive and feline creature like Rolfe could not be trusted to give a fair account of contemporary Catholicism...
...Circumstances caused him to care greatly for money because of the superior gratifications which it brings to people with imagination...
...I A HIS first volume of the Life and Letters of Bishop JL McQuaid contains in the first of two sections the history of Catholic Rochester, and in the second, the life of Bishop McQuaid down to the time when the two come together by the appointment of Father McQuaid as head of the newly established see of Rochester...
...dictates to sovereigns and to peoples...
...Sir Oliver does not mention this last curious point but he does a host of others and makes out of them a most fascinating book which is bound to have a large sale since it tells people just what they want to know on this subject and tells it in a way which everybody can understand...
...By a series of quite impossible accidents, he is elected Pope, the first English Pontiff since Nicholas Brakespere...
...She admits that "nearly every other one" is from her own pen, and swamped in the general anonymity, she suffers or is glorified according to the taste and digestion of the reader...
...Not at all...
...Parts of Hadrian seemed to be autobiography, very thinly disguised indeed, but the book teased the imagination more by what it suggested than by what it revealed...
...These early settlers were the founders of the great ecclesiastical system of the Empire State of today...
...Archbishop Smith of Edinburgh took an interest in him, and sent him to the Scots' College at Rome, from which he was sent away a few years later, without given motive save that his superiors deemed that he had no vocation for Holy Orders...
...he has an able scholarship and a point of view novel, young, and aggressive...
...The Daily Mail remarked that "Fr...
...One likes or dislikes personality displayed in the adjustments or re-adjustments of facts, philosophies, arts and sciences, as Mr...
...the narrative of that vast charity which, through a number of industrious agencies, brought to suffering Germany some of America's superfluity...
...Such people," he says, have "no right to mislead others who have less access to history and less leisure to study it, into the false belief that our fathers who framed the government under which we live were of the same opinion" with themselves...
...He traces the story of American effort to ameliorate the food shortage which had been created by the blockade...
...Henry Morton Robinson is editor of Contemporary Verse, and contributor of poetry to current magazines...
...Warren has accomplished the feat of writing a readable book concerning a subject which to most people is lacking in intrinsic appeal...
...He early makes a telling point by showing that the advanced position taken by the radicals of the present day is directly opposed to the arguments advanced by the liberals of more than a century ago...
...The few chapters in this first volume which treat of Bishop McQuaid show him to be an aggressive, self-assertive, rugged and, perhaps, a somewhat combative character...
...Charles Warren has written another book...
...A wit is not necessarily a good collector of other people's sparkles...
...We see a paper on the glass top of our desk and a paper-weight on it and suppose that all three are in contact...
...Little as we imagine it, the ether is with us always and in ways which we never suspect...
...Hadrian the Seventh, by Frederick Rolfe...
...W. P. Cresson...
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...Copernicus, a canon of Modena...
...That we do not recognize this all-pervading substance seems strange, yet Sir Oliver very suggestively remarks that the last thing that a deep-sea fish would be likely to discover would be water...
...Bishop McQuaid's early experience was an admirable preparation for the background for his episcopal career prepared by the pioneer Catholics of Rochester...
...Moreover, in these days of drastic and frequent amendments, the "man in the street" must find more reasons for familiarizing himself with his constitutional rights than at any time since the Civil War...
...Thwarted and poor, he was always imagining himself on another, superior, richer plane, under "ripe Italian skies," surrounded by personable disciples all devoted to him, collecting beautiful things, creating beautiful stories...
...There is so much to doubt today in all scientific theories that at times it seems as if this rate of traverse of light was the one firm rock in a surging sea of "perhapses...
...Only three pages out of three hundred or more are devoted to this subject—and then only as a passing illustration...
...And, above all other things, that is necessary in connection with the very difficult question of the ether so full of pitfalls and so very sparing in the proofs which it affords to us of its existence...
...And so with other things...
...smokes cigarettes...
...beatifies Mary Stuart...
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...suppose that the selective draft law could have been held valid by only three judges...
...Again not at all...
...His early years in the priesthood were spent in New Jersey, where he labored zealously in the arduous tasks of organizing parishes, building churches and schools, and in carrying a large portion of the diocesan obligations in providing collegiate and seminary training for the young...
...a flower of speech which is intended and believed to demolish once for all the unhappy person who refuses to deny that there may be realities which he cannot detect with scientific apparatus...
...He took the *;4e of baron, and devised a coat of arms...
...Cuthbert Wright is professor of literature at the Kent School, Connecticut, and a well known critic...
...John A. Lapp is associate director of the social action department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and the author of Our America...
...The complacency of our Catholic fellow-countrymen in the face of the exclusion of numerous American poets—notably of such a figure as Louise Imogen Guiney—in what purports to be an anthology of Catholic poets—even of English Catholic poets—will be hard to foresee...
...Rev...
...University of Chicago Press...
...Warren's enthusiasm for his subject, however, is contagious, and his account of the long constitutional struggle between Congress and the court is not without human appeal...
...London: Hodder and Stoughton...
...MANY readers will be grateful to Mr...
...All this part of a book must be regarded as a caricature, though a very diverting one...
...Someone who has read their correspondence has written of Rolfe: "I am almost sure he was possessed of a devil...
...Had he called his book an Anthology of English Catholic Poets we could have no objection to his restrictions...
...Again, it was upon judicial action that the "radical" Madison depended in explaining the necessity of a bill of rights to a reluctant Congress...
...It is in the light of this comfortable intimation of the potentialities of a "liberty-loving" Congress lashed on by the intimidations of such political blocs as the Anti-Saloon league, that the author considers the various schemes proposed to allow the National legislature to over-ride the findings of the supreme court...
...His lack of rumination, of profoundity and reconsideration are also evident to older minds...
...and bishops in the United States were of foreign birth, Bishop McQuaid found pleasure in emphasizing the fact that he was a native of the country, having been born in New York City...
...We know the material atoms of which our body seems to be built up, those which form skin and flesh and nails and hair...
...for there is an elastic cushion of ether between table and paper and paper and weight...
...Zwierlein has raised high hopes as to the character of the main figure in his narrative by the richness of the setting in which he has placed it...
...There are recognizable portraits of Cardinal Rampolla (Ragna), Cardinal Vaughan (Courtleigh), Dr...
...Hadrian is almost everything a romance can be—a gorgeous daydream, an essay in weltpolitik, an extravagant satire on English Socialism and English Catholicism, a fantastic autobiography, a real confession...
...One is delighted to see that, regardless of much cheap hatred then diffused, the official representatives of our country generally understood the truth of Herbert Hoover's words: "There is a country of 60,000,000 people with whom the world has to live, and whose economic cooperation is necessary to give life to the rest of the world...
...He says: "As an illustration—suppose that the Volstead law could have been held constitutional by only three judges...
...Whereas the biologist—in whose defense it can only be urged that he generally knows nothing whatever about the Subject— is aCCUStomcd to condemn metaphysics as "rank mysticism...
...Leslie, during a long residence in America, must have had plenty of opportunity to hear of the existence of our native Catholic poets, and his attitude can hardly be excused...
...I have never in my life come across one who hated so much, and so virulent an ego-centric...
...Writing from the view-point of this somewhat indefinite and elusive personage, the author of the present review finds himself free to admit a realization that constitutional politics, as generally expounded, is par excellence one of the "dismal sciences...
...It is in a spirit that shows how far away the American mind finds itself when it contemplates the French theatrical world...
...Books of this character are notably apt to fail in their mission...
...They were thus "fully familiar with the proposed fundamental change in government which they later adopted...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Rolfe," the latter being actually an abbreviation of his full name, Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe...
...Sister Winifred Mary Carmody, in a masterful manner, traces these linguistic uses with scholarly acumen...
...He fell in with tnc late Monsignor Benson...
...A VOLUME by Carolyn Wells The tale of the limerick tells: The vulgar and vicious She treats with judicious Avoidance—We hope that it sells...
...Patrick J. Healy...
...the chemical composition of wit, humor, humanity, culture, and personality that go to make up the ideal anthologist—his love for his author friends, his obliviousness toward his rivals which may be classified as limitation—leave us in real doubt as to whether the limerick is a paramount form of American humor at all...
...He posed as the godson of an Italian duchesa, who supported him for a while...
...When we warm our hands at a fire, the air is quite cold...
...There has always been something repellant to the intelligence of the average man in the convenient theory advanced by this uncritical historical school, to the effect that "the members of the federal convention invented the Constitution...
...His choice within the boundaries he has erected is marked with good taste...
...Rolfe could certainly write, but had a devil...
...Besides Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, and Raymond Lully, who only shared the faith of the universal western world, it includes many who managed to work hard and make many valuable discoveries in the field of the "exact sciences" at a time when disbelief was rife, without losing their faith in the most exact and most important of all...
...At any rate, there it is, and it is what we call the ether which is responsible for this regularity of delivery at the mad rate of 185,000 miles per second for all that journey of over ninety millions of miles which it makes in eight minutes...
...It is no slight compliment to say that Mr...
...When we clasp our friend's hand we imagine that flesh meets flesh in that encounter...
...Knopf's recent reprint of In His Own Image, preceded by a brilliant biographical note by Shane Leslie, supplies all the necessary knowledge about the so-called "Fr...
...rows on Lago Albano...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...it is the ether which conveys to us the heat rays from their source...
...Our atmosphere is supposed to extend about four hundred miles from the surface of the earth but in the greater part of that extent it is mere courtesy to talk of it as an "atmosphere" for it is of such tenuity as scarcely to merit that name...
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...Then began his derelict and defeated life, the life of "an aesthetic tramp," to use Mr...
...OCIENCE: As Everyone Should Know It, by Sir Bertram...
...He believed himself, with some reason, to be a true artist, but had no scruples about working the inartistic as a means of livelihood...
...The story of Catholic effort in the state of New York during the first half of the nineteenth century is a narrative of the defense of religion and the rights of conscience against the pressure of bigotry, numbers, and organized, incessant and unscrupulous opposition...
...Warren's former venture, he would seem to have done wisely in thus diligently following up his earlier success...
...G. N. S. Salvos, by Waldo Frank...
...Zwierlein wisely allows his own words and actions to reveal...
...Certainly few writers today can administer it in so well rationed a dose as Sir Bertram Windle, nor make it so palatable by a wholesome admixture of the common sense that does not always accompany the empirical as distinguished from the truly scientific mind...
...But we know nothing, through our senses, of that ether body which, invisible to us, is the shape of ours, and in which, so to speak, are stuck the material masses which we do know, very much as fragments of gravel are stuck in what builders call "rough-cast...
...What degree of authority would such a law possess, when the people of this country knew that six out of nine judges believed it to be unconstitutional, and that it was the law only because, under the Borah proposal, the vote of the six would not prevail, and the vote of the three judges in the minority would decide the case...
...in beginning his collection with the poet Caldmon, he assumes a purely nationalist attitude which he further limits to England, in spite of his inclusion of some Irish poetry, the work of twelve authors, including the Irish-American, John Boyle O'Reilly, and excluding all mention of the Catholic poets of America save for some selections from John Bannister Tabb...
...New York: Alfred A. Knopf...
...THE COMMONWEAL February 17, 1926 Science: As Everyone Should Know It, by Bertram C. A. Windle...
...and the often dramatic tale of measures adopted to bolster the financial weakness of the Ebert republic...
...Windle, is a little pamphlet of some forty-four pages, yet within its modest compass is to be found a mass of facts that should provide every Catholic, indeed, every believer, with a formidable armory for use on any occasion when the thoughtless and discredited aphorism that "the Church is the enemy of scientific investigation" comes up for a fresh airing...
...abandons the temporal power...
...3/6 net...
...Despite no end of silly puerilities and flagrant perversions of language, it is a fascinating book, a work of real, if disordered, genius, and it deserves to endure...
...We take off our gloves from motives of courtesy and, perhaps, from warmth of affection, but no power on earth can divest us of the gloves of ether which forever maintain separation between our real selves and other things...
...It is reassuring to know that this group of men who reason tells us were but humanly intelligent like ourselves, did not, in their hurried conclave, bind us indefinitely by a set of fundamental laws brilliantly improvised...
...Ether and Reality, by Sir Oliver Lodge...
...His bill was intended to secure "an independent tribunal of justice" which "will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights," and who would act "as an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive...
...Warren's second chapter, the supreme court enters into his narrative and his defense is outlined against its "modem opponents...
...Bishop McQuaid began his career as the child of immigrant parents...
...New York: Society for the Extension of Liberal Knowledge...
...He runs into the temple or church and brushes off the dust from the noses of the saints in a way to startle the sacristan and sometimes to annoy the worshippers and artists who like the dust...
...Zwierlein presents this part of his subject calmly and judiciously, and throws a strong light on the active Protestant opposition as well as on the sodden animosity, which, because it had nothing on which to feed, sullenly refused to join with the Catholics in many works, such as the building of hospitals, which were of vital importance to the entire community...
...IT seems that the historian Tacitus—by nature a poet but professionally an historian—was accustomed to insinuate his poetical, personal, and philosophical views in the subjunctive forms of his verbs...
...There is no other task open except to try to live and cooperate wholeheartedly with them...
Vol. 3 • February 1926 • No. 15
