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...provoked almost as much opposition and disorder as our present Presumably, the fiery Mr...
...The work on hospitals has been conducted in a very casual manner...
...That comparison, in the case of Cyclops' Eye, will hardly be wholly favorable...
...She is prodigal with who directed her studies...
...this moment been decided by the wits of the town-though Professor Adams writes of the aftermath of the Revolution- the whispering galleries are rife with rumor...
...the result has been that the world has read little of the childE. Wesson Woodbury is a cousin of Babbitt s, who has moved hood of the saints...
...It is of some human interest to analyze the state of the medical profession from this list of its leaders...
...But for some reasonperhaps the innate inability of lyric verse to be psychologicalthe effect is usually quite like that one gets from a brilliantly polished brass jar into which not much more than water has been poured...
...Arriving at maturity they a trader in furs, strong of body, kindly in manner, educated became, or perhaps did not have to become, being so always, in the ways of the human heart by solitude and nature, has "as little children...
...The settlement and development of the West the present time-humanitarianism...
...The book, it will be concluded, is largely interested in mental processes, geneses of iodeology...
...E 3 E 7{ C ~E ?y3dgllllllllllIIRIIRIUIINII€IIIllftllll IILIIIIQII IIIIIILIIIIIIIWINI IIIILIiIIIIIIIEIfIIIIIIIIIIIilflllad f Ida.laailklllllllllllllllllllllll!III N111 .1 I I 111:1111-ill ' By MONSIGNOR IGNAZ SEIPEL The Commonweal of July 28 will contain an article by the former Chancellor of Austria and now leader of the Christian Social Party, written while en route from the Eucharistic Congress...
...was in truth-a little girlhood at once human and holy...
...A man so naturally natural ought not to permit himself to be automatically hoisted upon a theory of poetry which may be true or false, but which obviously is not suited to his exquisite lyric power...
...A governor of Massachusetts had begged that the of the common man to realize the doctrines of the Revolution upsetting question of slavery might not be discussed-it would in the life of the community, in the face of a governing class disturb New England's internal economy and endanger her whom in early New England he sees as a "petty aristocracy" relations to the South, supplier of raw material...
...About twenty-three hundred names are included and the biographies are happily not without that quaint humor that clings about such productions...
...Auslander has earned the dangerous privilege of comparison with the greater masters...
...He adapts the favorite theme EDWIN CLARK...
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...Yet have not those flowers in the celestial from Zenith and has been an unexpected success in New York, garden that are dearest to the heart of man, remained dearest which went to his head and provided him with a vulgar swank because they retained to the end, frequently of long lives, somethat expresses a boorish and cheap good fellowship...
...There are, as he says with his final brush-stroke, no portion of life untouched, and against the lurid background shadows...
...Alverna invites Preston to take her away...
...Boston: Little, Brown and Company...
...It is a message to the American people by one of the greatest men of the present day...
...Here are no heroics and no romantics...
...But look : to a group of states always particula dstic and sectional the clubs that weekly dine to the goddess of service need not in its views, owing partly to geographical position and partly to relax, for he brought a Rotarian along to provide sardonic the old Puritan notion of a chosen people, h~ presented himself humorous relief...
...Nock's present monograph cannot be termed an addition to the literature of Jefferson...
...A BOOK as able as Mr...
...order but naturally longed "to be going places...
...Yet America, even if absorbed Professor Adams is, of course, a strong anti-Federalist, and in vital questions all her own, could not escape from the he likes the followers of Hamilton even less in their later stages penumbra of the old world in the field of matters intellectual than in their earlier...
...and the manners W ITH this third volume Professor Adams completes his and morals of the younger generation of 1783 made the clergy full-length picture of New England, from brow of gold to horrified and hortatory...
...erly such austere and distant figures-a saint-that even one of We have to thank Mr...
...too much for that argument...
...The specialty of Internal Medicine (which is "general practice" with enlargement of the head and atrophy of the feet...
...his whole life has protected hire from any rough mature qualities has been evidenced, too frequently has thought contacts, by virtue of his profession, class, and money...
...Lewis, by his inventiveness of plot pattern, then indeed the saints that have long been revered and by his dramatization of episodes, has projected charac- in maturer minds will come into the heritage that is rightly terization of solid and vivid value into his backwoods melo- theirs and that one cannot but feel they have ever longed to drama...
...Being so, they belong, primarily, to childcome to accept life with a stoical philosophy...
...It is supposed ary War with an eye resting, almost unavoidably, on the to be a great mistake...
...To the same period and the same of the community exhibits less collective wisdom than the impetus is due New England's famous crop of "ism"-transmembers of the despised lower orders, "as well as a more bitter cendentalism, Brook Farm, and all the rest...
...He in, that sang to her from outside the study-room window is for the first time in his life irresistibly drawn to a woman, and that proved too strong when she thought that Brother but he cannot betray Joe-his friend...
...New York: Longmans, Green and Comgroping in a conflict of passions, prejudices, and affections, pany...
...And when which have governed too much of our historical writing and things political did not go to the Down-East taste, Massa- have played up one section of the country to slight others...
...The Trend of European civilization may depend upon the outcome...
...Bagot's text and historical allusions lure the scholarly mind into an Italianate luxuriousness just as weariness draws one to a pillow...
...the bench to answer her catechism...
...BOOKS on lovely places have no excuse if they do not transmit this beauty in themselves...
...Here the story of the great foundress of the take a canoe trip with Woodbury, out in the great open spaces Sacred Heart Order is presented to children in the terms and where men are men...
...Small Finally, Preston is rescued through the agency of Joe, and hands will turn the pages of this book, following Sophie leaves Woodbury to the society of the noble savage and his closely through paths familiar to all children-the Sunday great outdoors...
...All in all, this is a satisfactory to satisfy his own desire...
...Lewis for one of the most intelli- these could be tempted to truancy from studies...
...Lewis has given way to plot...
...an exasperation from through a sense of relief at having escaped the conventions which the English operatives were mercifully free...
...Or, perhaps he just wanted to write this July 21, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 291 sort of book to please himself, just as he wrote Main Street when the last page is reached...
...maturity...
...which he has reflected with sound psychology...
...Miss Du Cane's pictures, reproduced in color, are charming in every way, while Mr...
...Once there, Preston knows that he is values of childhood...
...In general, "the flames of war left feet of clay...
...of Westerns, the tenderfoot, the he-man, and the girl...
...gently written scenes in modern romance-that of the reformed They will follow the story of Saint Sophie from her natural and ironically inverted triangle...
...In that case it is too bad some of the great war of 1914-1918, and effectively viewing the past from other novelists-in or out of the woody--do not fall into the the standpoint of the present...
...and as the ditions provoked western brains to new activities, and a champion of the common man he does not hesitate to declare single decade, 1831-1841, brought forward Whittier, Bancroft, that the history of the section shows us again and again that Emerson, Hawthorne (the order is chronological) Prescott, a class composed of presumably the most intelligent members Longfellow, and Lowell...
...One misses a few-for instance, the man who inspired and directed the building of the new academy of medicine in New York City...
...A far cry indeed from the so until recently, been almost the exclusive literary property of familiar saccharine of the red-blooded school of romance...
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...The delicate craftsmanship of the group to which he belongs never deserts him, and one admires the free handling of verse traditions with poise and also appropriate pertness...
...The book struggles to do the thing so earnestly advocated by the more programmatic American critics-to take up the abundant crude materials of life and mold them, as the phrase goes, "into beauty...
...endeavor...
...fication or secession in 1804, and again in 1809, as South Carolina was in 1832 and in i86o...
...If greed and rapacity (along with careless hous- the shadows rather than the lights...
...the stern big brother Joe's kindness and manliness cannot hold...
...New York: Harcourt, Brace of Virginia, we are pointedly reminded, who, just as the Revo- and Company...
...Lewis-whose utterances so often tussle over prohibition: smugglers' rafts were as busy on Lake command wide attention and stimulate so much bitter discusChamplain as rum-runners have lately been on Long Island sion-took a canoe trip in the North Woods, found it so unSound...
...He decides on flight...
...Just why Lewis wrote Mantrap has not at as "not a Virginian but an American...
...And it was Patrick Henry, Mantrap, by Sinclair Lewis...
...As a specific instance he pauses to shed a glow over his later pages: an amend for the free on the transition of New England capital from shipping to exercise-perhaps the over-exercise--of that critical spirit which manufacturing, and on the shifting of the latter from homes runs today...
...T HE editors of this volume did not state what criteria they have adopted in selecting names of physicians and surgeons for inclusion in it...
...Thus, Jefferson's embargo same error...
...Here the Jefferson of "fable, convention, and journalism" is silently ignored, and we are invited to consider a man who looked about with a clear, scientific, and speculative mind...
...hands this life of Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat, written by Preston, on account of his health, accepts an invitation to Maud 1lonahan...
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...It is well to have the folk of the North Woods rephas been the result...
...London: A. and C. Black...
...was absent and would not know that she had slipped away to Alverna joins him after his departure...
...Jefferson, by Albert Jay Nock...
...petus, with less regard, or none, for European influences and But the author does not escape another influence operative in complications...
...He established her ness and grownupness-that their own may come to know in his place at Mantrap-she set his home in fine domestic them, love them, and reverence them...
...Here is a surgeon whose chosen recreation is pitching horseshoes, while another born in the same state is a member of Tammany Hall...
...She refuses to be left play...
...the temptation of green fields to frolic her affections...
...New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company...
...a man who avoided contention because there is always a touch of vulgarity in it, and whose methodical habits of self-cultivation were brought to a halt only by something as formidable as the German language...
...chusetts, as the author shows, was quite as ready for nulli- HENRY B. FULLER...
...An abiding friendship springs into existence school where she was "so small that she had to stand upon between Joe and Preston-the attraction of opposites perhaps...
...and the conclusion is correct, despite all the skilful diction which Mr...
...Professor Adams class spirit, a narrower intellectual outlook, and a less broadly allows these fine names and these idealistic causes, with others, human attitude toward life...
...disillusionment) by an intensive study of almost any people Politics and government went forward under a native imin almost any period...
...New York: Harper and Brothers...
...Meet the characters : Ralph Preston, 'orty, a bachelor, The mature mind, interested in its own problems, and eagerly prominent member of the New York bar, member of the seeking to delineate personalities in whom the sanctification of Yale Club...
...And his ending has no patent solution, but suggests attain-their crowning in young hearts and minds as heroes and the lesson that, in spite of baffling difficulties, life moves on in heroines of childhood...
...EDWARD L. KEYES...
...shares with Nose and Throat, the affections of about one iii ten, while Gynecology and Nervous Diseases are only a shade less popular as specialties...
...The volume on The Italian Lakes, published in several editions since 1905, reveals so much of the charm of Lake Como and Maggiore that the owner will treasure it in souvenir of happy voyaging or of rich dreaming in the faraway...
...290 THE COMMONWEAL July 21, 1926 day, and the question of the bonus was treated with all the BOOK S familiar arguments, pro and con...
...Small eyes will open in a wonder which will be precurbehind...
...One cannot avoid the impression that Mr...
...After 1815 a new period opened...
...and the essential theme became a primary concern, and the question of slavery, purely of his concluding volume-the preceding ones having founded indigenous, almost shut Europe, for a while, out of the Amerand developed the region under consideration-is the struggle ican mind...
...Their first three weeks are composed of bickering and indeed it (like the little girlhood of thousands of other saints) hostile silences that would do credit to the Kilkenny cats...
...Nock devotes to proving the Jeffersonian affiliation with producers and their affairs...
...The present book displays the same cleat-eyed, devastating The Revolutionary War, and equally the War of 1812, calmness that characterized its predecessors: if it discloses but were fought against a background of European interests...
...He rep- of these personalities in terms of man- and womanhood, and resents refinement to the point of civilized decadence...
...S AINTHOOD and childhood are, in so many more senses He has carried over his technique of portrayal of incident even than the mystical one, of such close kinship, that it is by the employment of sheer contrast...
...Many will not like it because the Horatian mentality is considerably rarer than are translations of the odes...
...the studies at home...
...as on the Continent at the present moment...
...cussions, misunderstandings and a general effort to battle with If this enchanting little book is a forerunner of others to the prejudices and desires whose sum total is a human and come, molded around the same delicate, simple, yet exquisite lifelike situation...
...A POET whose earlier lyrics were so distinguished in content and form as to merit wide critical attention, Mr...
...After them, come in order Orthopedics, Opthalmology, Pathology, Pediatrics, and so on down through thirteen other specialties that we skip to those which appeal by their rarity, such as Diet, Library, Bacterio.ogy, Pharmocology, and Metabolism...
...Joe Easter, thing of the quality of the bud...
...The Italian Lakes, with paintings by Ella Du Cane and text by Richard Bagot...
...presented as human beings and the bunk of the red-blooded In Mantrap, the much remarked photographic method of he-man so thoroughly exposed in savory ridicule...
...Indeed, he acknowledges that he may have stressed to factories...
...constant flux...
...an "Epicurean strongly bent on hiding his life...
...The future of his people is far from ended HELEN WALKER...
...He is a mild hood, and happily their English and American biographers are protagonist...
...childhood through her courageous, magnificently effective Instead of heroics, we are treated to an understanding of womanhood, to her saintly death-and will turn back to the groping, frustrated, conflicting emotions, of passions, desires, beginning to dwell again on the inimitable black and white contradictions, changes of mind, affections ar d heated dis- illustrations by Robin which thread their way through the book...
...General practice seems to appeal to about one man in four of those listed, while general surgery holds one in five...
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...But it deserves nevertheless to be called an indispensable biography...
...In New York City, for instance, one misses Bellevue and Allied, Mount Sinai, Saint Luke's, Roosevelt's, and Saint Vincent's...
...The resultant odyssey is exciting and sor to understanding and love, that one of those persons, formalmost tragic...
...Auslander has been diligent, and his steel-workers, lovers, poets, city folk, prize-fighters and truck drivers pop up one by one, in nicely variegated rhythms...
...and the canvas is executed in a marked reaction against of those years we see the dark figures of misery and greed and the old point of view which regards all Puritans and all discontent as well as the nobler ones of patriotism and pure Revolutionary soldiers and agitators as saints and patriots...
...lution was preparing, gave clear expression to a national out- S INCLAIR LEWIS has gone into the wilderness...
...A depreciated currency New England in the Republic, x776-r85o, by James Trus- played hob with public finance and private expenditures, just low Adams...
...292 THE COMMONWEAL July 21, 1926 THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS STRUGGLE IN AUSTRIA Who's Who in Medicine...
...Her little girlhood is made to appear what afraid...
...The general stir of new times and new conbeen economic or social equality in New England...
...If his reviewer has foling, speeding-up and blacklisting) are charged, nothing worse lowed him into the dusk instead of heading toward a light that developed than had already developed in Lancashire-unless never was quite so glamourous on New England's hills and some of the more unjust and galling restrictions were "cloaked coasts as many have been in the habit of believing, this is largely under a pharisaical care for morals...
...At any rate, a novel of capital fiction novel...
...Joe follows...
...Auslander has caught hold of the wrong bootstrap...
...He says bluntly that there never had and cultural...
...It stands by itself, stoutly and serenely representative of the somewhat contemptuous mind which formed it, the handbook of an individualist's understanding of American democracy...
...His depiction of char- strange that the lives of the saints written in English have, acters is especially relentless...
...Alverna is They are fortunate little ones who will have put into their typical of a civilization that has even standardized pleasure...
...Chicago: The A. N. Marquis Company...
...From this hackneyed and worn-out genre, he has created a lively, The Children's Saint: The Story of Saint Madeleine Sophie, satirical, and penetrating novel of singularly diverse people, by 111aud 111onahan...
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...Monsignor Seipel expressly selected The Commonweal as his medium...
...At forty-five Joe had pursued beauty and married beginning to sense this and are giving them back to their ownit in the form of Alverna, a pretty, bobbed-hair manicure girl, who for so long have been intimidated by their apparent aloofwhom he met on a trip to Minneapolis...
...Revolutionary captains and colonels banded together like the conventional idea that it suggested treatment in an illufor advantage somewhat as the Legion has done in our own minating manner...
...Most selections seem to have been made on the basis of hospital or teaching affiliations...
...the At Mantrap the triangle is completed by Alverna whom all companionship and love of animal pets...
...and a qualified admiration for New England a similar effect the former was even decided, in Professor Adams's Opinion, may be produced (in a day of critical scrutiny and general by European sea-power...
...Genuine, haunting loveliness appears only in deft, fresh, sweet random passages of nature interpretation, though much of the rest is skilful and honestly fine...
...The inter-relations of religion and politics in Austria have now reached a critical stage...
...E BRIEFER MENTION Cyclops' Eye, by Joseph Auslander...
...Respectof clergy, lawyers, and merchants who sccrned the humbler able" Boston supported him, but Garrison and Phillips were sort and had no belief in their political wisdom...

Vol. 4 • July 1926 • No. 11

 
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