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...Yet these authors had an affection for imagery and the beautiful word for its own sake...

...Pennell's imaginative etchings and charcoal drawings as a record of their grace and symmetry...

...It is easy to understand that the idea that the disease was heriditary came to be accepted, since the affection ran in families and very often several of the children, and sometimes one or both parents, suffered from the disease at the same time or within a few years of each other...

...Among these is The Miracle the poem, perhaps, that the reader will remember the longest after he has put the volume aside...

...Moore has presented us with a generous and varied assortment, even including excerpts from the plays...

...You are never sure that the light you see may not prove a will-o'-the-wisp...

...Instead, they closed the door upon this neglect and the general drab Victorian setting and gave themselves unstintingly to the composition of plays and of lyrics and sonnets, which in collection amounted to eight volumes...

...His Short History is a book in general to be highly recommended with a few provisos regarding his religious views...

...An Introduction to Spanish Literature, by George Tyler Northrup...

...Sinclair Lewis walks up and down it once a day in order to "forget so many things that one hates to remember" (Main Street, Zenith and Babbitt no doubt among them), but the equally curious one that Byron, towards the end of his life hovered around conversion to the wise old Church, upon the advice of his friend, Sir Walter Scott...

...The plaster of houses had to be torn out and renewed, and wooden doors and windows replaced by new ones, the old ones being burned...

...The book is a valuable contribution to the Hispanic cause...

...Only those who will not do what is necessary when it is necessary, succumb to the disease...

...After one or more of them, a family would move out of the house and another family, in whom so far no tuberculosis had been noted, would move in, and the disease would immediately develop among its members...

...Even the Wren churches are marked for destruction...

...Greece, Italy, and Spain have flamed and died from their thrones among the older civilizations of the world...

...But men were not satisfied with this slow and indirect treatment of tuberculosis...

...vigorous and active as well as tender and contemplative...

...The religious poetry, which followed upon this event, records rapt and mystical experiences...

...In the first place, it is a quality of poetry unadulterated with other elements, of a mood of rapture sustained on the wings of exquisite fancy...

...Because of the intimate political relations between Spain and Naples, similar laws were passed for the south of Italy and Sicily—the Two Sicilies, as they were called...

...The greed of the ground landlord spares nothing...

...Miss Cooper died of cancer in 1913...

...Galen suggested that milk was particularly useful as a means of restoring health to persons suffering with ulcers on the lungs...

...Undoubtedly, well directed efforts in the immediate future, can further lessen its fatality, yet nevertheless it constitutes at present our most important disease problem...

...Flick, more than any other, has helped to organize the successful open-air treatment for tuberculosis in America and has solved many of the questions connected with that magnificent advance in modern medicine...

...In Fleet Street we meet not only Sam Johnson and Izaak Walton, but a figure hardly less heartening—"Mr...

...Many fine religious poems and works of the time of Richard Rolle and Chaucer have not so much as been reprinted and translated...

...No review of this twain can be complete without separate mention of Whym Chow...

...That formula very nearly sums up the most important phase of our modern treatment of tuberculosis...

...Instead of being a fatal malady, as was formerly thought, it is really, under favorable conditions, one of the most curable of diseases...

...Chesterton one evening reading the proof of his Daily News article under a Fleet Street lamp250 THE COMMONWEAL January 6, 1926 post, and chortling with great glee at his own jokes...

...With the exception of Dr...

...This utter trifle for my love I buy, And thinking of it on her breast, My heart has rest...

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...Why not a young woman, mourned as Dante mourns his beloved, and used .as a step towards the more perfect affection which exists in the union with God...

...Education, indeed, only seems to have made men more susceptible to suggestion...

...James Street we learn not only the interesting contemporary fact that Mr...

...and yet to tell true, not from any fear of death, I thank God, but by reason of my great weakness and infirmity.'" Marshal Ney treated death as casually, which proves, among other things, that courage is a possession common to camp and cloister...

...A similar protesting spirit possessed George Sand when she brought poor Chopin down to Majorca...

...From here the January 6, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 247 doctrine of tuberculous contagion passed to the north of Italy, and the chief physician of Venice persuaded the magistracy of that city to introduce sanitary measures for its prevention...

...their minds were well stored with alien treasures...

...New York: The Macmillan Company...

...Such matters are important because gradually, as they are tossed from person to person, they finally turn into truisms...

...He" knew the Greek feeling for life and the Greek restraint of expression and could turn as precise and as finished a quatrain as Waller or Landor...

...The average reader probably will ask two questions: Is Sister Madeleva's interpretation acceptable...

...New York: D. Apple ton and Company...

...The Poetry Cure, by Robert Haven Schauffler...

...And there were always the Wren churches, packed with mural monuments of a quaint past and with the carvings of Grinling Gibbons as an aesthetic joy...

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...C ISTER MADELEVA'S industrious book is an attempt to ^ reinterpret the fourteenth century poem, The Pearl, in terms of religious and mystical experience...

...It is the personification of his own soul in the state of such potential perfection and happiness as is congruous to it at this time of his life...

...The second period set in about the 'nineties when Drury Lane and the old "court end" of London, with all its memories of Steele, Addison, Johnson, not to say of the actors, drabs and highwaymen of the eighteenth century, vanished to make way for Shaftesbury Avenue and Kingsway...

...Flick himself thinks that we should begin to plan for the time when our tuberculosis sanatoria may be used as sanatoria for nervous patients...

...Great harm was done often to the patients because they failed to care properly for their physical beings...

...To begin with, a certain modern tendency to read mediaeval allegory as a wholly subjective reflection has led to many very doubtful conclusions...

...the city of drab stone office buildings threaded with immense corridors, and with iron stairways amid which elevators have had somehow or another to be fitted...

...Flick has doubtless found special satisfaction in the eighteenth-century teaching of the contagiousness of consumption, for toward the end of the nineteenth century, he was one of the leaders to reintroduce in this country the theory of house contagion...

...Death, when thou passest by, Take us together/ so I sigh, 248 THE COMMONWEAL January 6, 1926 Praying and sighing through the London Streets While my heart beats To do some miracle, when suddenly At curve of Regent Circus I espy, Set 'mid a jeweler's trays of spangle-glitter, A tiny metal insect-pin, a fly...

...and it also calls our attention to the fact that the Church has been much more ready to vouch for St...

...LONDON has undergone three great periods of demolition during the past hundred years...

...THIS is an age of ills, bodily and mental, not to say spiritual: it is characterized by many cures and patent medicines, ranging from Christian Science, to the Keeley Cure...

...The curative properties of music and recitation are as old at least as David in the tent of Saul: it is a novel presentment, however, that ranges our poets with the physicians and surgeons, the allopaths and homeopaths, the psychoanalysts, osteopaths and chiropractors, who reign so numerously on our side streets...

...In a day when so many of our poets would seem to rival the quacks, the old Doctor Joneses and Doctor Brownes, who kill and corrupt while they hold their offices open, one must welcome the pure product of the anthologist to a place beside the Book of Household Medicine for the great work of man's perfection here below...

...Today, about the safest place in which to keep anything that is old and gracious, is in the memory...

...Professor Merriman understands the historical methods of touching deftly on the high spots and the significant details in events without lingering too long over their antecedents or consequences...

...Well, the point rests upon an extract from Pliimmer's book, which is not necessarily de fide...

...When Sister Madeleva quotes from Professor Kurtz as saying that The Pearl is a "little Divine Comedy," she also leads the reader to wish she had explored the Dante parallel more fully...

...A Short History of Spain, by Henry Dwight Sedgwick...

...Of the dramas it is a little difficult to speak...

...These, with other valuable historical publications on the reign of the Emperor Charles V, are followed by a study of conditions in Spain in the New World...

...Consider Eros, for example— "Ah, Eros does not always smite With cruel, shining dart, Whose bitter point with sudden might Rends the unhappy heart— "O'er it sometimes the boy will deign Sweep the shaft's feathered end...

...Secondly, it is a quality that is vivid, sharp, electric...

...It is to such appetites that Mr...

...It cannot be said that these verses are particularly feminine...

...Sedgwick caters in what, in spite of his modesty, is really a traveler's handbook...

...and the generation of 1898 and other recent writers...

...XT o George N. Shuster...

...Flick's volume on tuberculosis is not only a contribution to medical literature, but also to the social history of mankind...

...Francis's Third Order —that fathers and mothers and lovers may give their ordinary experiences a high mystical interpretation...

...But one is not convinced that either interpretation is final...

...Robert Haven SchaufHer is therefore timely with his pocket medicine chest of verse, and honest enough to quote from Robert Graves that poetry "may be used as much for prevention as cure...

...It is impossible to mention here the stages of the excellent, detailed analysis by means of which Sister Madeleva fortifies her position...

...For they had their devotion to each other, their love for the dog, Whym Chow, and a modest but sufficient income from a tobacco factory in Birmingham...

...The letterpress by Mr...

...Then, for his solace, he is afforded a vision of his own soul, to which he applies the figures of "pearl," "maiden," and so forth, and is given some excellent spiritual counsel...

...The first, dating from about 1830, or the beginning of the railroad era, synchronized with the abandonment of the old city limits for the suburbs, as a place of residence...

...There are many readers waiting his views on the art and beauty of Spain and but few minds capable of approaching the more serious questions of national and racial rise and decline...

...an excellent handbook, be it said, written with enthusiasm and in a charming, cultivated manner...

...He made a careful survey of one of the slum districts of Philadelphia, and pointed out that in certain houses deaths from tuberculosis kept occurring constantly...

...There have been many ups and downs in this matter, and the one successful treatment that has proved helpful at any period is fresh air and good food...

...Most of us will wish that her poetry will not altogether disappear under the bushel of research—a danger suggested to some extent by her present book—but we shall be very grateful for the research...

...In his early years his life was despaired of, due to the advancing character of lung tuberculosis...

...But, although we need not pledge ourselves to accept Sister Madeleva's immediate point, we cannot avoid doing homage to her really splendid achievement in dealing with some characteristics of fourteenth century life...

...And these were as so many ornaments or toys to hang upon the branches of their fecund imaginations...

...At any rate the text does not make a rationalist of St...

...He is speaking," says Sister Madeleva, "indeed, to a dream-child, but this child is not the ghost of a dead infant...

...New Broad Street, the old General post office, Cloth Fair, the gabled houses, dating from before the fire, in Whitechapel, the magnificent homes of the Huguenot settlers in Spitalfields, where royalty was more than once entertained, and more than one of the churches are buildings that will never be looked on again...

...Often the lines suffer from being overcrowded with thought, which means that there is no "thin" matter here, no mere space tricked out with pretty figures...

...Henry Longan Stuart...

...1*75* WHEN British readers of the early 'eighties discovered that the author of a certain poetic drama was not the glorious male that it had imagined, no male at all, in fact, but two spinsters, aunt and niece, writing under the pseudonym of Michael Field, the praise that it had begun to bestow, quietly ceased...

...James J. Walsh...

...The love lyrics, the celebrations of friendships and passionate attachments, are the best...

...5>5O...

...The attitude of the anthologist is frivolous and his practice not always in accord with that of the old family practitioner...

...But on the whole, these devotional lyrics do not measure up to the high mark established elsewhere in the collection...

...In A Short History of Spain, Mr...

...The foremost physician of Rome, Saliceto, in 1784, published in Perugia a volume on the contagiousness of consumption, with an epigram from Rousseau—"Men mutually poison each other by crowding together...

...Professor George Tyler Northrup of the University of Chicago approaches his Introduction to Spanish Literature in an able attempt "to present a picture of it as a whole, stressing the evolution and development of its great genres and, when possible, grouping authors in their respective schools...

...Why must The Pearl necessarily have been a child...

...But the authentic Pliimmer text suggests a wholly different meaning from what is implied in the sentence under consideration here...

...The health regulations of the Spanish authorities seemed to her an absolutely unwarranted intrusion on personal rights...

...There are here and there delightful potions, sugared tablets and tasty pick-me-ups...

...Nimis Honorati Sunt is a moving salutation to the Lord of the Eucharist, and The Descent from the Cross is a fiery espousal of the discipline of pain...

...What is the quality of this poetic activity of which they gave the world in such abundance...

...The chapter on the Guildhall is made an occasion to call up from the past the whole busy, comfort-loving, liberty-loving, guzzling, and occasionally splendid life of the city of Pepys, John Wilkes, and John Gilpin...

...Thus it happens that although Joseph Pennell's drawings of London, with letterpress by Sidney Dark, now issued in a popular edition, were made only seventeen years ago, and although the artist is as much alive as any man of his age can be, a large proportion are records of a London that has vanished forever...

...To a small boy, holding the hand of an antiquarian father, Sunday in the deserted city became an ineffaceable memory...

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...Thomas's foretaste of the Beatific Vision than for Tauler's, by way of example...

...What is needed above all, is the courage to face the disease, for experts in tuberculosis hold almost as a maxim that "tuberculosis takes only the quitters...

...Not even the robust enthusiasm of Browning could avail to win for these masqueraders the attention their work merited...

...others are very poorly understood...

...New York: The Macmillan Company...

...Thomas Walsh...

...Certainly her analysis is superior to the father-child elegy construction that met with such wide acceptance...

...SEVEN years have elapsed since the publication of the first two volumes of Professor R. B. Merriman's Rise of the Spanish Empire, but the delay is amply compensated for in the opportunity it has given the author to consult the valuable material on the period of Charles V, which has been presented in such works as Sanchez Alonso's Fuentes de la Historia Espanola and Ballester y Castell's Bibliografia de la Historia de Espana...

...Their tower of ivory was a little house on the river near Richmond...

...Not all of the selections make as easy reading as the foregoing quotations...

...Dark has a whole-hearted distaste for the Reformation and the reformers, and a noble eulogy for brave (and Blessed) Bishop Fisher: "Old Fisher, bravest of bishops and martyrs, wakened at five to be told he was to be executed at nine, said to the lieutenant: 'Let me, by your patience, sleep an hour or two, for I have slept little this night...

...It was deep April, and the morn Shakespeare was born...

...Probably, for the non-medical reader, the most interesting chapter of this volume is that which gives the record of the development of our knowledge of the contagiousness of tuberculosis...

...But Miss Katherine Harris Bradley and Miss Edith Emma Cooper, for these were the ladies' names, did not cease to write or to publish because of contemporary neglect...

...Always they produced some amelioration of symptoms in certain patients, and often they actually seemed to bring about the arrest of the disease...

...The reader will be especially grateful to him for some excellent chapters on the nineteenth century regional novel...

...One simply can't help wishing they had been picked out, like so many bad stitches...

...They had journeyed far in their reading...

...A visit to London in ten or twenty years' time will be a visit to sites...

...Boston: Little Brown and Company...

...The reflection of the great Florentine was strong upon some aspects of fourteenth century verse—surely stronger than the reflection of Suso or Tauler...

...Americans who went to Italy in the hope of regaining their health when suffering from consumption, and who were brought in contact with the legal regulations regarding the disease, proclaimed the Italians a barbarous people for the trouble they inflicted upon unfortunate victims of the affection...

...New York: Doddj Mead and Company...

...No scholar interested in the controversy which has grown up around the poem can afford to overlook what her book offers in the way of constructive criticism of the theories advanced so far...

...How often do I tremble for the unwary when I see him turned loose in such a vast medical pharmacy as The Home Book of Verse...

...She visualizes her author as a man who is suffering from spiritual melancholy— the "dryness" so frequently mentioned by holy writers and cpmpared by them to various concrete forms of desolation...

...WHILE in our generation consumption has ceased to be, in Defoe's picturesque phrase, "the captain of the men of death," being exceeded in mortality by pneumonia, it is still the second greatest factor in mortality...

...How gladly I would give My life to her who would not care to live If I should die...

...Let us hope it will be read in ever so many places where there is need of deeper concern with the real life of an era which never wandered far from the shadow of the Fathers...

...London, by Sidney Dark, with illustrations by Joseph Pennell...

...So much has been accomplished in a single generation that the eradication of the disease seems to lie very near, and even Dr...

...People have used Sister Medeleva's method to prove that Beatrice—Dante's Beatrice—is only a symbol...

...It seems that no valid reason exists for entirely eliminating concrete human beings from old poems when they may have been the real starting-point for the writer's meditation...

...But The Miracle is modern in conception and phrasing, and Michael Field was a classicist as well as a romanticist...

...The Pearl is hard to place because the fourteenth century remains such a misty and bewildering territory...

...Schauffler can also distribute the breadpills and warm water solutions, that are said to be profitable in many advanced cases of selfishness and imaginative illnesses...

...The result was the introduction once or oftener in each generation, of some new forms of treatment...

...The Don't-Worry books are frequently suggested among his soothing syrups of song...

...In many a quiet court and square off the main arteries, old Georgian mansions that had once been stately civic homes were to be found by the sentimental pilgrim, in one or two cases even with their gardens intact...

...After the question of the contagion of tuberculosis, the most important development has come with regard to the treatment of the disease...

...Miss Bradley, who was suffering from the same affliction but had concealed it from her "fellow," succumbed a few years later...

...But apparently they run the gamut of the most morbid emotions known to the human breast and are reminiscent of the "horror plays" of Webster and Ford...

...Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company...

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...Lasting until about i860, it gave us the city American visitors know...

...Fighting his way through to health and strength that have served to make him an active worker in many lines besides medicine, and accomplishing much good, he has faced the problems of tuberculosis all his life...

...By an evaluation less ephemeral, they become one of the most arresting cases in literary history...

...the excerpts are too brief...

...It was so vague that it carried none of the weight it should have had...

...This is the work of a scholar who possesses the proper veneration for a great subject, the proper knowledge to present its facts, and the cultivated taste to weigh its merits and apportion its crowns* The general course of Spanish literature has been well delineated by many authors since the seal of greatness was put upon it by George Ticknor, and Professor Northrup brings a fine discretion and a contagious enthusiasm to his task of gracious presentation of the subject...

...Of St...

...Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

...She introduces a great many parallels from fourteenth century mystical writers of every sort, and skilfully weaves in evidence derived from her own experience as a religious...

...We are so accustomed to think of Spain as backward in matters of science that it is all the more surprising to learn that during the first half of the eighteenth century—nearly a century and a half before the rest of the world accepted the idea—Spanish physicians reached the conclusion that tuberculosis was contagious, and they were able to persuade the government to assume the task of its prevention...

...Schauffler has had a vision of these conditions, as he shows in his Directions Before Using— "Evade the blase or grouchy bard who infests the foothills of Parnassus, as though he had developed a new kind of contagious paralysis...

...The third, by credible reports, is raging now, and threatens to leave not a stone upon a stone of the London that Dickens and Thackeray knew...

...It is now known that the hereditary element in it is quite negligible, and that its spread is almost entirely a matter of contagion...

...We are very lucky to have Mr...

...The initial colonization and exploration are handled in an able manner, with a cautious deliberation of statement on the difficult questions of the Church and the Empire and the struggles over the control of the Council of Trent...

...Paul's and recapture all the smoky, arrogant old city's charm at the expense of two hours' reading...

...To read Sidney Dark's London, looking from time to time upon Pennell's drawings, is to mount Aladdin's magic carpet, descend beside St...

...The world was on us pressing sore, My Love and I took hand and swore Against the world, to be Poets and lovers ever more...

...Christianity has been adopted but without the discarding of pagan symbols and the result is a combination tending to be only decorative and bizarre...

...This book, so inspiringly earnest and so lofty in character, permits a, few rather distressing details to flutter among its pages...

...It seems that Sister Madeleva is the person to undertake this great task: first, because she herself is a poet of rare fineness, and secondly, because she has learned by contact the importance of scholarly January 6, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 249 endeavor...

...They do not so impress one and might easily pass as the work of a man...

...We may estimate Mr...

...T ,- „ Landon M. Robinson...

...Above all, it shows how novelties in therapeutics are apparently beneficial at first, only to reveal after a while that whatever of good effect there was, was mental and not physical...

...But it is probably better to conclude with a point stressed by this sentence from Sister Madeleva's book—"Even the great rationalist, Thomas Aquinas put aside his last work incomplete because he said he had seen in union with God, things that made all his reasoning seem slight and poor...

...To begin with, is it not quite true—is it not the whole meaning of St...

...and they have uttered many oddities about mediaeval architecture...

...It is difficult to understand after the thorough-going application Of this policy, why the idea of the contagiousness of the disease gradually disappeared during the nineteenth century, and had to be renewed at the beginning of our generation...

...It is "popular" in the best sense and Logan Pearsall Smith calls it "the prettiest poem on shopping in our language...

...post romantic poets of the nineteenth century...

...They are worth noting here because Sister Madeleva's work, one of the brilliant studies of the year, is deserving of more careful criticism...

...and his book is a decidedly amusing specimen of literature...

...Sedgwick's references to the Church from his statement that "the functions of this original Inquisition were never, as I understand, very clearly distinguished from a bishop's regular duties"—when the very contrary should have been his assertion...

...Schauffler has carried out this clever scheme remarkably well...

...The brief characterizations and estimates of Gregorio Martinez Sierra, Pio Baroja, Ramon Maria del Valle Inclan, Ramon Perez de Ayala, Ricardo Leon, and Concha Espina, are in general trustworthy, although the latter seems to call for more praise than he gives her and he seems exaggerated in his estimate of Miguel de Unamuno...

...The atmosphere that steeps London with its thousand nuances of mist, fog, and smoke has been woven into the texture of each drawing so subtly that to turn them over one by one is not only to tread London's moist pavements but to breathe its murky air...

...This pet was the inspiration for some of the most touching lines ever addressed to canine, and it appears that it was his untimely taking off—by chloroform and at the hands of his mistresses—that was one of the important causes in Michael Field's conversion to Catholicism...

...Humanly speaking, they were two eccentric old maids who wrote poetry which few persons cared to read...

...Pennell has done far more for us than reproduce architectural detail...

...Pearl, by Sister M. Madeleva...

...Altogether, Mr...

...It illustrates admirably the tendency of men to accept theories of various kinds...

...Thomas—of him in whose writing the intuitions of grace always had an honored place, and who differed from his lesser companions chiefly in that he had an abiding sense of form...

...What is needed badly is a good study of this century in England, made by a careful investigator who shall disentangle and reconstruct from extant data a vision of the period which will be serviceable to a wide reading class...

...Therefore, the author was in all likelihood, a religious with a temper of mind much the same as that of Thomas a Kempis...

...The Rise of the Spanish Empire, Volume III, by Roger Bigelow Merriman...

...Thus passed all that was mortal of Michael Field...

...Henry Dwight Sedgwick presents "an honest book, intended for the ignorant and the indolent, for passengers in steamer chairs bound on their first voyage to Vigo or Barcelona, for freshmen or sixth-formers that wish to learn, with the least expenditure of effort, whether or not Spanish literature is likely to be worth such attention as they can spare from football and social pleasures...

...Here they admitted to their presence a few kindred spirits and pitched the plane of their living on rare and Parnassian heights...

...This is quite as true in our supposedly enlightened day as it was in the past...

...Probably no one in this country could have taken up more appropriately the task of collecting the available information of the development of our knowledge of tuberculosis than Dr...

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...Dark has that excellent equipment for a walking companion, a very decided outlook of his own on men and things, and an intimate knowledge of the byways of history that goes far beyond the information common to guide books...

...The devastation was sweeping, but when it was over, survivals might be counted...

...In Piccadilly, we see the wicked old Marquis of Queensbury with one foot in the grave and another not far off, ogling the carriages from his window...

...and in spite of the fact that practically every human being has a trace of it, the death rate, in comparison with the whole number of the affected, is quite low...

...For here were two hearts beating as one, two talents, not merely collaborating, but fused into a single genius, which will burn for all time with the "hard and gem-like flame" of exalted achievement...

...Curiously enough, the first people among whom the idea of contagion gained a foothold, were the Spanish...

...Hasten from the empested frivolity of the Pollyanna optimist as though he had the laughing sickness...

...Is her work of value...

...Sedgwick is well advised to refrain in such a book from discussing the causes of this success and failure...

...One passage in the poem rebuts such a theory, but, after all, it is a vague and accidental passage of two lines much easier to explain away than much in the Divine Comedy...

...Sedgwick is a safer guide, giving an appreciative outline to the best poetry and prose authors of a really glowing development...

...And friendship rises without pain Where the white plumes descend...

...A Selection from the Poems of Michael Field, arranged and prefaced by T. Sturge Moore...

...criticism, erudition, philosophy, history and oratory during the nineteenth century...

...Until the discovery of microbes, the thought of contagion was not very concrete...

...The same statement was made in the same way, not long ago, by a Quaker mystic...

...Just after the middle of the eighteenth century, laws were passed requiring the destruction of clothing and other materials "susceptible of contamination...

...Might not Patmore have come near to writing The Pearl...

...As leases expire, old buildings are quite simply torn down, that steel and concrete sky-scrapers may rise in their place...

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...Trudeau, Dr...

...Flick's book forms an invaluable background for the continued progress of our crusade against the White Plague...

...William Seton, the husband of Mother Seton, who, as a widow, founded the order of the Sisters of Charity in this country, died of tuberculosis in Italy, and his wife was very much perturbed over the precautions taken, which included wholesale destruction of his belongings...

...There is a very old tradition that one of the Greek physicians, perhaps Hippocrates, said to a young friend suffering from tuberculosis—"Buy a cow and go off into the mountains...

...On literature, Mr...

...Sidney Dark is a worthy accompaniment...