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Crowley, Paul & Walsh, Thomas & Repplier, Agnes & Phillips, William & Will, Allen Sinclair
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...Gilliat-Smith, under the imprimatur of the English terested and most competent narrators...
...She quotes from an for boys, now so popular, which embrace a diluted modicum immeasurably old hymn the praises of a wife who has borne of history, largely the history of wars and adventures, may with cheerfulness the poverty into which her husband's gam- come to mind...
...London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner one of the tragedies unfolded by history...
...In his first-probably also his best-chapter the historian The facts of the Saint's life, as revealed in positive state- is interested in making the point, Gaul Shares the Life of ments, are meagre, but sufficient...
...There are a sense of history, the book will prove a fascinating record allusions artistic and literary: Theophile Gautier and Remy worth rereading...
...but one for which "As an infant, the woman's birth was cursed...
...As a scholar, Mlle...
...He faces a mass of devotional the meaning of history...
...sex is the main theme...
...Naturally the reader will be thankful also account of the discovery of this literature and its presentation for the wealth of pictorial illustrations, some of which are to the European scholarly public begins with the romantic narmasterly color drawings while others are photographs achieved rative of Alexis Csoma de Koros the Hungarian patriot and with a truly rare understanding of ensemble and setting...
...She would assimilate these men, meticulousness, translates as Saint Cross...
...of the book...
...It is not the miracles that before a considerable number of readers who have not been make a saint, "for a' that...
...A very perfect and even apart from their subject matter...
...Like her civilization, her religion was house of these cultivated Canons Regular in Coimbra that Roman and that religion was saved: henceforth, throughout Anthony spent ten years of his monastic life before taking the centuries, the basis of religious France will be orthodox upon himself the habit of the new and humble community Catholicism...
...the ages, from the moment of Saint Anthony's entrance into ALLEN SINCLAIR WILL...
...stridency, a gift for leaving little to the imagination...
...And the oldest-and newest- which does not rest upon sound evidence...
...There is the delicacy and finish of Greece blended, even in a remote degree, history and fiction...
...T HE great Saint Anthony, shrined in his Franciscan History of France, by Jacques Bainville...
...At this moment France began...
...life of the East, of its piety, its asceticism, its profound self- As a widow she was placed in dependence upon her son, yet abnegation and boundless charity...
...Beebe, it is a place where he had a mag- Sons...
...nificent time guiding the Arcturus in and out of a watery land of mystery, the exploration of which filled days with the joy THOSE interested in the study of Dante-especially those of discovery...
...Williams has not patient Griselda...
...Those who had rightly wearied of stories, more or less legendary, upon a subject so dear to the attempts to explain human deeds with clumsy and mechanical average pious mind that the greatest discretion on his part as theories could not well avoid extending a welcome to a writer a modern historian is seriously called for...
...Her civilization was strong and studied until his fifteenth year, when he joined the Order enough to withstand the influx of the Franks and to leave of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine in their Priory of the material power in their hands...
...but Krishna had i,6oo wives, and the mind sinks fatigued from their contemplation...
...and for the hospitable hearth, justice, piety, pity, a brave atti- H AGIOGRAPHIC emphasis, well-intentioned though it tude toward life and death...
...2.00...
...Johnson was right when he Hindu epics, the Ramayana, which in its vast old age is still said that laws count for little with the human race...
...Bader should standing, she was...
...If there be any answer drawn spiritual texture, a solemn sense of duty and devotion, to his question, it may possibly be found in the pages of which the Greeks, children of earth, would have found im- Clarisse Bader's book...
...It even goes so far as to reveal new scientific unnecessary to say more here than a word of warning: those lore with a humor and pertinence which most of us sadly who miss the book will be deprived of an unusual means of missed during certain laboratory hours...
...Bader fell child, she became, by virtue of her grace and purity, the joy under the spell of Sanskrit literature...
...even if there had been no Albermarle volcano to erupt and no Cocos Island to justify a speculation about buried treasure, Broadway Translations: Tibetan Tales, edited, with a prethe story of the Arcturus would have been fascinating enough ; face, by C. A. F. Rhys Davids...
...But these are camouflage...
...Andrew Lang says that the Homeric poems train for life because they teach ele- Little Brother Francis of Assisi, by Michael Williams...
...The "zest" of the blurb the Third Republic he has much to say that is clarifying and one must concede, but "maturity...
...The purpose was to convey a message with the of them spiritually beautiful and some of them close to homely clearness and general attractiveness which would be likely to fact...
...Williams has seen the obvious task...
...world...
...heaven to the present day, the whole world has proclaimed his thaumaturgical powers and his influence in daily life, as Saint Anthony of Padua, by Ernest Gilliat-Smith...
...In a time when for an uncommitted sin...
...Ena sacred narrative, and the Mahabharata, whose 200,000 verses lightened and progressive, India was not...
...call it "a novel of dreams and desires...
...have told very well...
...New York: P. J. Kenedy and to 35 N." For Mr...
...CLARISSE BADER'S study of oriental woman- The author turned with indescribable relief to the study of hood from the Vedic period to the coming of Christ, the days when the pure Arian strain was yet unpolluted, and published in 1867, and crowned by the French Academy, has when woman made of her lowliness a crown of glory...
...The stories of contention between Saint Francis Mr...
...find in these beautiful but formless tales qualities which Homer asked William James of an outraged feminist who had used conspicuously lacks...
...the beloved god of Hindu women...
...Needless to say, the WILLIAM PHILLIPS...
...philosophy, was in accord with nature...
...but we do not see them in our mind's eye as we see Nausicaa Mr...
...Krishna became and Company...
...It is rich justed lore...
...To catch sight of them in these moments of continuously ITS publishers speak of the book's "extraordinary beauty, renewed apparition is M. Bainville's business...
...Jacques Bainville is among the most inMr...
...This indirect history is the best form in which a credible The extraordinary success of Cardinal Gibbons's The Faith narrative can be arranged, but one cannot avoid a sense of of Our Fathers would appear to offer all possible encourage- shock to realize that Saint Anthony had so little to do with ment to the popularization of religious literature...
...seems mere effervescence of a callow mind so overcome by discovery of a basic physical fact that it loses its sense of proportion `4 E Sargasso Sea," declares one of the encyclopaedias, Pis the region of the Atlantic Ocean from about lat...
...A poet must envy series of translations, perhaps none is so generally attractive as this constant succession of pictures which capture the fantasy the collection of tales from Indian sources first collected by the of color-pictures of a strange world which has been entered Russian scholar, F. Anton von Schiefner, and later translated, and lived in with joy by a man who has also explored the with an excellent introduction, by W. R. S. Ralston...
...are boys or girls no longer...
...Here he lived sessed her principal characteristics...
...Bronson's publishers call "the distracting magic of youth" G. P. Putnam's Sons...
...In tocephalus until it seems an individual one should deeply enjoy the case of Monsignor Slattery's book, style does not obtrude meeting...
...And she had need of this Santa Cruz-which Mr...
...in her picture of a youth looking at his dead young wife, and The historian of American Catholicism in the world war sighing deeply as the wind ruffles her hair "interwoven with has been too thoroughly grounded in the canons of research flowers and bee-shaped ornaments," so that for a moment she and accurate presentation to accept for his pages any statement has the semblance of animation...
...M LLE...
...Tonys of half the universe, has long called for a biography T HE old land which has been a home for an unbroken that would satisfy the more critical minded of those who fled line of great men from Vercingetorix to Marshal Foch to his protection, retold the legends of his life, and in the has a story which many have enjoyed telling and which several end realized they knew little or nothing of his actual history...
...It serted in precisely the right places...
...Sainte-Beuve is read aloud "in the oriFrance should not need being urged into the long shadow of ginal...
...The book has been so thrills with the quick staccato of exciting catches and ventures widely and so favorably commented upon, however, that it is amid sharks...
...Bader's summing up of this paradox: It is, as the preface states, a "modest work...
...who plan incorporating the fruits of their study in an essayGranted the opportunity to join in the reminiscence, one ought not to overlook the second edition of Monsignor Slatturns to this book with the expectation that it will do at least tery's fascinating and scholarly lectures...
...ject for a simple biography, simply written...
...Probably the book will sell: it has a verbose, garishly colored PAUL CROWLEY...
...translated by by the encroachments of Islamism was, in Mlle...
...Mlle...
...Williams adheres faithfully to the currently accepted and the other founders of his order are well outlined by Mr...
...Down performed a service whose value it is not easy to compute...
...In sacrificial student, but it is interesting to the very end...
...He is at his its "zest and maturity...
...20 Dante, by John T. Slattery...
...artificial distinctions between man and man, based upon mateIt follows that the Hindu poems seem indescribably remote rial prosperity and power, were arrogantly maintained in civil from our day and from our field of vision...
...Beebe's style is simply the manner of an erudite and yet AMONG the recent volumes included in the Broadway thoroughly humanized conversationalist...
...Williams is able to bring the example of Saint Francis to hold a juicy capon for his meal...
...As a girlthe author was well fitted...
...To anybody with the conventional life, buys a ticket to follow him...
...We who have lived so intimately with de Goncourt "say...
...1.75...
...So, for to set forth the distinction...
...New York: E. P. Dutton but with these additions it becomes a narrative suitable for and Company...
...and about the Beauty is but skin-deep in this tale, however, and the desire religious wars, the work of Richelieu, the Revolution and under the skin is desire of the flesh...
...And the book is not disappointing...
...Damayanti, wife of Nala...
...She has been, as M. Bainville sees reliable, sorting the obviously legendary from the plausible, her, a nation upon which certain collective endeavors were imand establishing enough actual history to preserve the figure posed...
...best when the narrative is clouded with storms...
...and carry on with such a zest of adventure as used itself upon the reader but goes about good-manneredly, charmto come upon small boys observing the gay career of a three- ing all with pertinent allusions, apt phrasing, and nicely adring circus...
...THOMAS WALSH...
...Mr...
...York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...New mental goodness : "courage, manliness, reverence for old age York: The Macmillan Company...
...Beebe's other ters indispensable to a beginner pretty thoroughly, discussing volumes: catch up the flavor of the sea and the open, windy the epoch, the man, and the various portions of the great poem...
...ing power, rude through it was, had been recreated, and France The confusion among these authors of chronicles, legends, could afford to wait for it to pass into better hands...
...They have a moral elevation, a finely the phrase as though it had a meaning...
...Of particular value is the abundance of comment with the drowsy color of tropic haunts, where hanging watery gathered from the most important students of Dante and ingardens glimmer like rainbows inhabited with goblins...
...330 THE COMMONWEAL August 4, 1926 That India, seduced from her early standards by the debilBOOKS ity of the Krishna cult, should have been still further degraded Women in Ancient India, by Clarisse Bader...
...As a wife, she was made to submit, Catholic, she had a sympathetic understanding of the spiritual like a child, to her husband, yet she counseled him as a friend...
...Greek poetry, like Greek AGNEs REPPLIEx...
...As a climax, Deborah licanism) every Democrat is too modern to feel at home in -one is not surprised that after meeting Charles "she felt traditional France, which is essentially as much antique beauty intensely aware of her body" ; it is something no one who reads as living reality...
...She already posCathedral of Lisbon, and named Fernando...
...When the Padua before the friars of Saint Mary's carried off his body author, then a young bishop in North Carolina, wrote the first and began the erection of the superb shrine that fixes his memedition of that book, now extremely rare, he had in mind a ory as a Paduan forever...
...It is to be hoped that many Americans will the book can avoid-whom his sex appeal and undergraduate avail themselves of the opportunity to read M. Bainville in the sneers have distracted from a sincere and honest vocation for present eminently satisfactory translation...
...New York: George H. Doran...
...The author's pristanding unabashed before the shipwrecked and naked Odysseus, mary purpose has been to give, in this year of the seven hunrcognizing his kingly bearing, and swift to offer hospitality...
...New York: Mr...
...Bader has selected, from her too abundant material, If comparisons be sought, the better class of series books passages of great beauty and distinction...
...standards of proper biographical treatment, beginning with the Gilliat-Smith: Saint Anthony's fruitless mission to Morocco formative period of the life of Saint Francis and proceeding and his return with the fever...
...stupidity or fanaticism...
...her glory...
...2.50...
...One is amused to hear of the supper-party tendered the make an impression upon the reader who has no predilection Saint at which his heretical hosts served him with a large for religious books, as well as the one who has such a predi- bloated frog...
...Where there is a emotion of life is conveyed in these simple lines: "When a border-land between history and legend which, for purposes little son, even if all covered with dust, runs to his father and of completeness, he must enter even a little way, he is careful embraces him, what greater pleasure can there be...
...New York: D. Appleton and him in almost every church of the Faith throughout the Christian world, patron of the pious, of the Antonios, Antons and Company...
...Nothing at last been translated, and very well translated, into English...
...dredth anniversary of the hero-saint's birth, an account of his or as we see Helen in Sparta, repentant without remorse, life "for boys and girls beyond the folk-lore age...
...burning...
...Nothing of all this will be lost...
...In avoiding drawing the soft wools from her silver work-basket, and secure complexity of treatment he has avoided a rudimentary method under the protection of her wise husband who knows she has also, and thus his work is likely to be of interest to many who been a pawn in the cruel game of the gods...
...It is no mistake to say Cardinal Bourne, and assisted by his previous studies on Saint that his gift for untangling the political aspects of an event Clare and other Franciscan topics, approaches a difficult task or an era has given thousands of people a new impression of with acumen and deliberation...
...the sign of the Cross over the dish, which at once was seen If Mr...
...Devout and underrepresent the collective labor of centuries, Mlle...
...could be better than Mlle...
...As a maiden, she was deprived of best acceptation of the word) she was deeply interested in the right to perform religious duties, but there were obligations the type of womanhood it so nobly reveals...
...Sacuntala, wife of Dushy- the Church whom piety delights to honor, he is a model subanta, are nobly drawn, and possess every conceivable virture...
...Yet what The Arcturus Adventure, by William Beebe...
...It is natural that, having devoted years of study to the great Which goes to show that Dr...
...Bader's eyes, Mary E. R. Martin...
...5.oo reading at any time, even late into the night...
...the accounts of various general through the period of evolution to the period of fruition, giving chapters at Assisi, and of Franciscan conferences in Rome and an historical background for every detail that seems to require elsewhere are recounted with, always, the implied presence of it...
...One supposes that pleasure and intellectual profit...
...Decorations by Boris Artzybasheff add to the appearance Saint Anthony, anonymously in the background...
...she governed him...
...Just what is the `nobility of womanhood...
...It was in the lovely she would polish them...
...practicable, if not meaningless...
...by reason of the authenticity of its material which will be August 4, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 331 welcomed because of the multiplication of tales resting upon and fioretti gives the historian "a pretty kettle of fish," and tradition to which the marvelously versatile life of Saint Francis it is only a deft finger that can extract a morsel without a naturally gave rise...
...He was of distinguished Rome...
...general purpose which was about the same as that of Mr...
...translated by Alice habit, illuminated by the votive tapers that shine around Gauss and Christian Gauss...
...The devoted knight-errant of Lady Poverty is in invincibly chaste amid temptations, would have built herself no need of the luxurious ornamentation which Lady Rhetoric a funeral pyre, and willingly entered the flames, as purification and Lady Eulogy are often ready to supply...
...Yet there is a marked difference between Little bling losses have plunged her, and who has never failed to meet Brother Francis of Assisi and the generality of the series books, his friends as smilingly as she meets him...
...He has accomplished who says at the beginning of his book: "France is the product his work in an able manner, sifting authorities more or less of will and intelligence...
...New well as in abiding spirituality...
...This was never so true as when Clovis became a Portuguese blood, born in 1195 in the shadow of the old Christian...
...The mystery of phrase...
...In short, anarchy had been avoided, a governthen collecting itself around Saint Francis of Assisi...
...Sita, wife of and poor alike...
...3.30...
...Gilliat-Smith, with irritating British great Frankish strength...
...as a devout she imposed upon herself...
...Legends and miracles fill up the pages of his history-some Williams...
...This 332 THE COMMONWEAL August 4, 1926 power will be monarchic and will tend to realize the Roman BRIEFER MENTION idea of the unity of the state...
...Some of these took root in geographical and economic of great sanctity that we have all venerated from childhood, circumstance...
...4.00...
...The fact, you would have to look a long while for a better book stories are all fairly well known to scholarly English readers, to give anyone--especially if that "anyone" happens to be a but the present volume should find a wider audience among man kept off the far seas by daily routine...
...Through the vicissitudes of the ages these traits will Spring Running: A Novel of Enchantment, by F. W. Bronever be reappearing...
...persons of average culture and curiosity...
...they are merely attestations of drawn to former books on that fruitful theme he will have the holiness of the person to whom they are attributed...
...They cover the matsome of the magic things accomplished by Mr...
...as a feminist (in the of the paternal hearth...
...The work, therefore, has a value an instant, is the whole world made kin...
...Surely, of all those since the earliest days of Rama...
...others were closely bound up with what Proviand to absolve the enthusiasts of the Saint from all charges of dence decreed should be the cultural destiny of Europe...
...2.00...
...To summarize, Charles's, stirring...
...The very fact that he is a monarchist seems to aid the hero's, contacts with the world-chiefly physical and feminthe work, because (whatever may be said in favor of Repubine-end in flight to a Wyoming ranch...
...and that the women society, the utter simplicity of his life won the hearts of rich they describe are like creatures of another world...
...format and printing are excellent...
...But no Greek woman, snatched be, is powerless to enhance the story of Saint Francis by an evil power from the shelter of her husband's roof, and of Assisi...
...son...
...chat about so unprepossessing a creature as the lep- Form is, however, always quite as important as matter...
...The Saint, raising his eyes in thanksgiving, made lection...
...6.00...
Vol. 4 • August 1926 • No. 13
