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...SCHWERTNER, O.P., is the editor of the Rosary MUSIC-Conservatory Methods in Piano, Violin and Magazine...
...As he says thoroughly, and are doing their utmost to destroy the historical of the Honorable Edmund Burke, he is himself "disastrously personality of Christ...
...Franklin, " `The enormous difference between Christianity and paganwho is too human by his personal admission to need the ism lies in the fact that the person of Christ is historically author's proffer of humanizing, he descends to the trivial...
...Visitors at All Times...
...There vision leads him into serious defects...
...with all his intellectual attainments, culture and study, his education had not prepared him to understand or develop the WITH the publication of The Worm Ouroboros, we are work on Leonardo which he had long contemplated and that introduced to a new writer, whose reputation has prein a sudden fit of chagrin, he made an end to his life...
...One wonders at the learning that passes, and-with Newman-why it passed...
...is a whim of purely scampish intent on Mr...
...The traditions of human stone church, its little grey convent and its venerable manorflight before his time are concerned with the supernatural house of true French architecture, all combine to make it one powers, the magic carpets and birds of oriental folk-lore...
...On this side of the romances of Rider Haggard...
...resounds with the clarion calls of great fighters and bold lovers, This is a reprint that has been greatly revised, especially in the with loyal women and the seductive sirens...
...The book ends with what Jose Asuncion Silva of Colombia, one of the greatest figures will probably be the most interesting of all chapters to the in modern Spanish literature...
...August i I, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 3SI The Mechanical Investigations of Leonardo da Vinci, by always avid for picturesque remains in the shape of ancient Ivor B. Hart...
...To put Lord North among the fathers There are two ways of explaining the myths of antiquity...
...But the numerous French phrases and quotations that are used...
...Guedella's part, The shallow sceptic, seeing in them a resemblance to the rites despite the inverted phrasing that he effects, in order to prove of the later Church, thinks he has explained away the Church failure and omission, as well as victory, among the first fruits by pointing out the resemblances...
...There that the vexed question of liquor permits was exercising the is even a discussion of flight without motor machinery, such minds of the city fathers as long ago as 1702...
...Guedella is too or rather in the sequence of stories making up The Birth of sprightly for any profound issue to result...
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...The workers have made their own, and in relation to the much gracious and honorable Lords of Demonland-Lord Juss...
...The ironical rise from the book stimulated yet disappointed...
...His versatility of the Gods-the idea frequently is in danger of being lost...
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...It mocks this display of physical prowess and elemental forces ANYONE who expected to derive from Dr...
...To contemporaries of the jazz age, this may be the literature Possessing a strong historic sense and a pretty complete ac- of escape, nevertheless it is literature in the real epic pattern quaintance with the early records of the province, his eye is Eddison has forged a style of such sweep and gusto as is 352 THE COMMONWEAL August i t, X926 needed for heroic life...
...He will feel method displayed in such choice is often too self-conscious to that the author got tired and failed to finish what he began...
...It is a rereadable book...
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...The far-off Mercury several times reprinted but of late they have been unobtainable...
...French monarchy" is drawn with a degree of mawkish senti- It was this vision that prompted the writing of Merezhmentality...
...T O imagine Merezhkovsky writing a dull book is only less Guedella is not the first Englishman to seize wholeheartedly difficult than to imagine him writing one that is perfectly on that civil war which made "two nations grow where proportioned...
...woods of the northern campaign gave to the ready vision The story of The Birth of the Gods-which is concerned of Shaw food for one of his most diverting dramas...
...Their days are region of genetics, a subject which the Professor and his cooccupied with fighting and adventuring in strange lands...
...of doing it, would be of the utmost value to our generation...
...At times The IT is nearly ten years ago since the Vanuxem Lectures for Worm Ouroboros is a tale of awe and fabulous wonder...
...A fascinating romance, is merely a reprint of meticulous essays contributed now and a grotesque, fabulous book of wonders for a mechanical world then to scholarly magazines, and apart from enumerations of -written in a style of magnificent periods tinged with the German writers who had spoken of Italy before Goethe ararchaic, but leavened with sensuousness that illuminates swift rived, or of other German writers who had talked about art action in a book of odd enchantment...
...THERE are certain phases of history that have an enduring fascination for mankind...
...The bird," says da Vinci, "is able to rest in the air Notre Dame, built as long ago as 1681, and tucked away in without holding its wings in the place of equality, because not a corner of the city to which few tourists ever penetrate...
...conviction...
...But if the from France, an ancient contrivance for beating butter, a large wings are outside this place of equality then the bird will 'huche' for kneading bread," and, most precious of all, a faded descend by the line of obliquity of these wings...
...In his foreword to the The Birth o f the Gods, by Dmitri S. Merezhkovsky...
...Three Studios Open to MARTHA BAYARD is a contributor of criticisms to the current magazines...
...Child Jesus...
...The blind feel the sun though they cannot see it...
...The having its centre of gravity in the middle of the pivot, as old convent is discovered to be a feast for the antiquary, its balances have, it is not constrained by necessity to hold its relics including "pine coffers with hand-forged hinges that came wings at an equal height, as in the said balances...
...On That idea could hardly be put better...
...world needs a complete exposition of Saint Clement's sentence These are, in the last analysis, delicate, swift-moving vig- (quoted here) that "the barbarian and Hellenic philosophy has nettes...
...OAK KNOLL School of the Holy Child J. Gilchrist Lawson : it will be a welcome supplement to the AN ELEMENTARY and COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL works of Bartlett and William Walsh, and a really friendly SUMMIT, N. J. Resident and Day Pupils help to hurried writers and students who wish to decorate Campus of 12 Acres on One of Summit's Highest Points their writings with quotation marks...
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...It would have been better to have Hilaire Belloc, whose Marie Antoinette remains a biographical discarded the story of the priestess and her lover, and to have masterpiece of scholarly insight as well as poignant sentiment...
...From Goethe to Hauptmann, by Camillo von Klenze...
...Guedella's mind is essentially continental...
...He even fails to be convincing on the Marquis Christianity is the revelation, the apocalypse of paganism...
...is on this list, as well as the romantic figure that was John that the myths are to be understood only in the light of their Burgoyne...
...Music and Art Departments Lead to LouisE HOWLAND is a reviewer for current publications...
...He was THOMAS WALSH...
...The universal acclaim given to his works of gloomy when he has to record instances of its only too-successful art, the veneration accorded to his paintings are easily enough inroads...
...And his style, judged as literature, suffers badly from the Merezhkovsky has thrown out a few brilliant hints...
...be entirely effective...
...He has created on the planet Mercury, a new world, in which he has spun tall yarns that are "neither allegory nor Princeton University Press...
...understood-their transcendent beauty, their sublimated sophis- His route lay along the Richelieu River, which he notes, tication constitute, them the most fascinating problems and "never loses the characteristics which are generally associated works of interpretation of what is considered the most artistic with the rivers of old France," past Chambly, where ruined period of art of either the ancient or the modern world...
...Born of the most unspoiled French villages in the province...
...a more delicate task than the author bargained for at the There are men among these founders of a nation who may commencement of his operation...
...THE COMMONWEAL August i 1, 1926 350 the crux of the whole matter lies in the peroration...
...is no glamour thrown on Hamilton ; and in Dr...
...To him, ever-living Word...
...That Fort St...
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...The reader will consequently well wonder to find themselves in this galere...
...Louis looks down upon the grassy graves of New the scientists of our country should so long neglect a brother- England soldiers who died in Ethan Allen's "push" for Canada, worker of the fifteenth century-that his essay, On the Flight through Fort Lennox, built in 1812 by German mercenaries, of Birds, should remain until the present volume without an whose dismantled casements, solid as on the day they were English translation, is certainly some reflection upon our scien- built, are mirrored in a moat that is the haunt of water-birds...
...How profound are these words: can subjects, properly speaking, are lacking in perception and "Christ is concealed in paganism and revealed in Christianity...
...as to all of those who are gifted with easy rhetoric and oratory, THEODORE MAYNARD...
...there paganism is the sun of the blind...
...turned from modernity and produced pure romance that is T HE title of Mr...
...The de Lafayette, Carlyle's priceless Hero of Two Worlds...
...made, instead, a careful study of the relation between myth The music motif, the wailing of violins that Mr...
...it is as though his ready pen may be, the finished production is not much a `myth' as paganism...
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...Teachers' Certificates and Diplomas...
...44 Blackburn Road, Phone Summit 1804 Lawson tells us, also, that "ministers, lawyers, doctors, and professional men generally can make good use of them...
...ceded his American debut by several years...
...Disraeli recommended "a frequent review" of them, and the poet added : "They spoke in proverbs for the proverbs came...
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...before Ruskin began, its interest lies chiefly in a rather rigid LoUISE HOWLAND...
...von Klenze's of waging furies...
...Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company...
...in 1452, it seems clear from these records that Leonardo was The chapter on Montreal, which is evidently twice- and the first of all the pioneers: for over thirty years he closely thrice-trodden ground to Mr...
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...Guedella and revelation...
...The Witches would annex the kingdom of the Demons...
...We learn that a city ordinance in 1706 forbade is based on observations and practical experiments, studies of the pious but unhygienic citizens to "keep pigs in their houses" the properties of the air, the action of the winds, and the under a penalty of three (un-depreciated) francs per pig, and various materials that seem likely to be used in aviation...
...Ursula of the Blessed Virgin of the Von Klenze Weltanschauung-"His apostasy in 1845 On the Hudson marks at once the crest and the break of the Oxford moveACADEMY FOR GIRLS KINGSTON, N. Y. ment...
...drawing of the tiny stable given to the saintly Marguerite de An interesting annotation to this scientific side of Leonardo Bourgeoys to house her first school, by the Sieur de Maisonmay be found in the story of the suicide of the great poet, neuve, Parkman's "soldier monk...
...The Worm Ouroboros, by E. R. Eddison...
...discussion of Hauptmann...
...He is utterly incapable is too much string for the beads, and the beads in this case of differentiating between sentiment and sentimentality-unlike happen to be priceless gems...
...Eric Rucker Eddison derives from the old folk-lore and legends...
...Boarders and Day Pupils Apply to MOTHER SUPERIOR The World's Best Proverbs and Maxims, by J. Gilehrist Lawson...
...fable but a story to be read for its own sake...
...His mind with Celtic affinities has in- BRIEFER MENTION spired the creation of his Gargantuan world with beauty and Evolution and Genetics, by T. H. Morgan...
...A visit is made as has been subsequently undertaken by the German aero- to the old stone convent of the sisters of the Congregation de nauts...
...of personalities and affairs that shape the destinies of men...
...Guedella is still quite young...
...This B 4 0 K S charm in endings, in setting suns, has also to do with youthFathers of the Revolution, by Philip Guedella...
...aginative appeal than that of the American Revolution...
...Proverbs are the wisdom Rosemont College at Rosemont, Pa., St...
...He has unquestionable genius, but his ideas are one had grown before...
...And with the unrequited love of a Babylonian iron-merchant for recognizably there is no finer work on the Revolution than that a virgin priestess of Crete-faintly suggests the melodramatic of the distinguished historian, Trevelyan...
...bed one Sunday morning they found a pistol, D'Annunzio's H. L. S. Triumph of Death, open at the splendid chapter regarding Leonardo, with other scientific studies, lying beside the corpse...
...Scattered about in his own shadow reflected back upon the whole of mankind to the very clever mind is a wealth of cognizable material (none too well beginning of time is an historical miracle fatal to those who arranged, perhaps) that leaves a picture in "high visibility" would destroy Him...
...1915-16 appeared under the title of A Critique of the Theory Sometimes, however, the behavior of its characters is quite like of Evolution...
...educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and since his college years has been a member of the Viking Society for Northern The Spell of French Canada, by Frank Oliver Call...
...But the story itself is perfuncAtlantic, fact and fiction have but multiplied with the pass- tory, and has obviously been used merely as a string to hold ing years...
...He was one of the handsomest men author, gathered from the very men and women whom he used of his day and apparently a well-balanced character...
...In this fashion the author sees the sun-decorously torn off a fragment of eternal truth from the theology of the gilded--of the eighteenth century, slowly sinking...
...New The close of this epical romance of the bizarre is ironical...
...frequent crossroads...
...Graded Courses in Both THEODORE MAYNARD is a poet and critic whose books include Our Best Poets, Drums of Defeat, and The Last Knight...
...Princeton: daring...
...With a sense that is positively uncanny for the universal history, foe the whole of it is about Him...
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...Ours, a village that As a pioneer in aviation, Leonardo has only recently come seems to be imported bodily from the old world: "its great to the credit that belongs to him...
...They were received with great interest and were the antics of this more prosaic world...
...But in the storythings psychological the imagination of Mr...
...One need not add that the bibliographies are extensive...
...And Mr...
...York: The Viking Press...
...Lord Goldry Hence we get much about the fruit fly on which so many Bluszco, the strong man...
...New York: who always wish to lose themselves in some "golden, remote G. P. Putnam's Sons...
...Of course, the book is confronted with the sinister designs of the nobles of Witch- hardly one for the tyro, but persons with even a modest bioland...
...Some romantic episodes in the back- often too vast and chaotic to be brought into order...
...wild west...
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...His method information...
...and the American scene continues to be The stringing of these beads, however, seems to have been "an admirable place for a declaration of something...
...Naturally enough, with such interests, Eddison has L. G. Page and Company...
...adroit use of words, he is a master of pictorial phrasing...
...It Elizabethans...
...Modern atheistic scholars have grasped this Mr...
...Guedella writes with a brilliant preciosity...
...MARTHA BAYARD...
...logical training will be able to make their way through it The treacherous nobles employ ingenious strategy and the gal- quite comfortably, and, needless to say, no working biologist lants of Demonland are hard pressed...
...forts, convents and chateaux, and for romantic spots where $4-00- some monument helps the mind to reconstitute "old unhappy T HE amazing scientific activities of Leonardo da Vinci, far-off things and battles long ago...
...Frank Oliver Call's pleasant book is sig- saturated with the spirit and feeling of the legends of Cuchunificant of the spirit in which his pilgrimage to several lain, Maeve, and Deirdre, as well as those of the Norse sagas...
...sites associated with early Canadian history was undertaken...
...Even today "the unnat'ral old parent" survives at beads together...
...real.' (Schelling...
...kovsky's book...
...Louis XVI, with "that last unfinished air of the fulfilment, Christ...
...Boston: Research...
...He is happiest when he representative of all that was greatest in the Italian perceives evidence that the stubborn conservatism of the renaissance, have suffered a long neglect by scholars on the "habitant" is still resisting attempts to replace secular forms continent of Europe and still more among students in the of life and architecture by standardized ugliness, and a little United States...
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...Facile "If there was no Christ, there is no Christianity...
...and the vehement Lord Spitfire are valuable experiments have been made...
...A SCHOOL FOR GIRLS A N excellently arranged dictionary of proverbs and maxims has been compiled from the various modern languages by Mr...
...On his as prototypes for the characters in Maria Chapdelaine...
...SISTER M. MADELEVA, C.S.C., is a poet and critic, and the author of ACADEMIC COURSE-Prepares for College or Normal Knight Errant, and Pearl...
...Vocal MARGARET WIDDEMER, poet and novelist, is the author of The Old Road to Paradise, and Cross Currents...
...Fair ladies, in turn, will fail to make himself acquainted with it...
...disputed question of mutations or large and sudden changes...
...Yet the monstrous travails, the poetical conceits, the havoc of violence, the intervention of magic and book an impression of what German literature has been durcolossal combats have the gaudiness and exuberance of the ing the era indicated by the title would be badly fooled...
...tific historians...
...Such a work, if a man could be found capable forces through these sketches, is an obvious "catchpenny" trick...
...THOMAS III...
...New York: The best critics agree that the poet had suddenly realized that filbert and Charles Boni...
...But the wise man sees with of construction...
...Cornwallis, who is touched off admirably, Saint Paul that the myths are "a shadow of things to come...
...the Christ of conception of Washington is genial, but not compelling...
...But to destroy it means to destroy quotable...
...Lord Brandoch Daha, the expert swordsman...
...New Fathers of the Revolution, which he calls "a short treatise on truth," Philip Guedella asserts that no period is richer in im- York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...The great Oratorian appropriately becomes the occasion for a typical sample St...
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...Frideswide's at of the ages," so our American editorial writers may add to Oxford and finishing schools in Paris, Rome and Freibourg, their stores of learned columns by an occasional visit to the are also under the supervision of the Sisters of the Holy ancient treasure-houses represented in these collections...
...This young man-he was in general reader, a pilgrimage to the country immortalized by his early thirties-returned from Europe a finished artist of Louis Hemon, and recollections of the ill-fated young French most exquisite quality...
...His Ameri- save in the introduction...
...It crossed the river to Montreal at St...
...mix in the contest, abetting in the promotions of attacks and being rescued from distressful capture...
...But it can hardly be said to be dearly expressed Mr...
...Call, and which is termed by studied problems of aviation until 1505, when he published him, A City of Contrast, is filled with quaint and unfamiliar at Florence his study, On the Flight of Birds...
...But if Christ has been, His entirely one of surface painting...
Vol. 4 • August 1926 • No. 14
