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Windle, Bertram C. A. & Stuart, Henry Longan & Low, Benjamin R. C. & Washburn, Claude C.
August 18, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL ...
...But presently it became known no avail before: that the Fascists did not save Italy from Com- that the document was false, with far more damaging result munism, as the Fascists have so monotonously asserted and re- to the regime than if Amendola's death had been chronicled asserted until a majority of foreigners and even -a good many without comment...
...Even creatures of this kind have their uses, for France induced Dr...
...Palais ordered all the papers of the Vincennes diocese, and Studies...
...M. I. STRITCH, S.J...
...truth about the Italian finances under Fascism and the facts I hope most earnestly that this clear-sighted admirable book about the budget...
...In another part of this issue, the 20, 1854: `Bishop Bayley told me that he had Bishop Brute's significance of Shea's work is studied in its relation to the letters and papers...
...We of whales, one closes the book with an overwhelming temptareprint the conditions of the competition, as laid down tion to murmur: "You are a better man than I am, Captain Cook...
...an intrepid leader...
...JOHN H. FINLEY science...
...Peter Guilday which is the longest and best sustained auxiliary, refused to return them to the officials of the Vinnotice upon John Gilmary Shea, the historian, that has yet cennes diocese or to let them be examined for historical purposes...
...In order that he might be free to follow it for many years . . . recording every event in the community faithfully, he took poverty as his bride...
...of reference, where the Conrads, Masefields, and Melvilles of the future will come upon it and rifle it for immortality...
...Bolitho (without evicause it is founded on knowledge, not ignorance...
...KENNETH SLADE ALLING, a contributor of poetry to current magazines, was for some years an editor of The Measure...
...I wish he might have found space Italians so delightful a people-not because they gave one a to quote the initial published program of Fascism...
...viewer, has lived for years in Italy, the snap judgments passed Mr...
...Bolitho has done in it and hope devoutly that every- Apparently, it is a rigid machine...
...August 18, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 369 and in the Church in that part of western Pennsylvania...
...the suggestion of a recent woman writer-save the mark-who caps this pyramid of absurdities that has been built up...
...I did not, however, get access to them...
...The attitude of Fascism toward the Italy Under Mussolini, by William Bolitho...
...As he says, the day of barricades is past, and Mr...
...Bolitho's admirable book proves a wholesome antidote...
...Edward F. from those in authority who should have been his warmest McSweeney, is appended a textual transcript of the famous cooperators and backers...
...that the enlightenment of the public on the news of the day T HIS is precisely the kind of book that should be written was too important a function to be left to private enterprise about Fascism and its leader-a clear, keen, intelligent came afterward and is not worth discussion...
...Bishop de United States Catholic Historical Society: Historical Records St...
...from Mr...
...It is an unimportant problem in To review the book in detail is impssible in a short space...
...actually, its workings can be one sincerely curious about conditions in Italy today may turn evaded without too great difficulty...
...Guilday concedes the justice, is its lack of "arrangeletter to the Archbishop of New York, wrung from this fine ment...
...Will not in cases like that of M. Thibauld, better known Manhattan College as Anatole France, who, in his shameless book, wilfully misrepresented the holy, pure, and innocent being who was all Van Cortlandt Park and 242nd Street that his mind detested...
...Grand Central Terminal, New York City, on or be- WILLIAM EVERETT CRAM is a New Hampshire farmer and writer, fore September 1, 1926...
...examines with damaging coolness the Italians despise it...
...He died kissing shoulder all through these middle years, and there are pages a rosary which had been the gift of Cardinal Gibbons...
...But if you ask me whether I think it will, I do not...
...writing of history generally...
...2-40- mendacious...
...B. S. is Home Economics...
...Freshman class limited to 200...
...A vision seized upon the early Benedictines of Saint Vincent's Abbey, kept a diary his imagination...
...These are invaluable, People will go on, just as before, finding Mussolini a romantic for they show beyond the shadow of a doubt that there is no figure, just the right person for Italy, and remarking brightly constructive doctrine beneath Fascism, which invents doctrines that Italian trains run on time now...
...It is all very cold and Freemasonry, reintroduction of the Crucifix into the schools, clear and unemotional...
...4. It shall not contain more than 5,000 words...
...New York: Benziger Brothers...
...bishop's papers...
...by her genius changed the whole course of history, and that M. A...
...The and with admirable arrangement of the argument and matter...
...New York: liberty of the press is equally a practical matter...
...CONTRIBUTORS 5. A typewritten copy of it must be sent to the Dante THOMAS ROBINSON DAWLEY, JR., is an American journalist and the Prize Committee, care of THE COMMONWEAL, author of Cuba The Child That Toileth Not, and other books...
...DR...
...He gives a clear account of the estimate of the exaggerated nationalism of the average Italian...
...scholars S. BERT CooxSLEY is an English poet residing in California...
...A contem- New College Buildings in a splendid setting porary writer could have told him : "Nothing useful or im- house New York's famous old Catholic College portant has been accomplished except by the Maid...
...But with Shea it took the one form a many years, lifted, and that he died aware that his self-sacrifice scholar dreads, distraction from his real occupation and the had not been in vain, but might be trusted to bear its fruit in dire necessity of interrupting his researches to do uncongenial due season...
...material Dr...
...dividuals...
...psychology...
...2.00...
...Many well-known scholars have submitted of a skilled artisan, might have been made memorable...
...tion on American Catholic history...
...He is in his business relations with certain Catholic publishers which probably the only man who has ever corrected proofs after had best be allowed to pass into oblivion...
...DR...
...To a mind once seized with enthu- the heart as well as the head...
...HELENE MULLINS and MARGARET Ton RIrrER are well-known contemporary American poets...
...Guilday, "he was forced to labor at expected, and one of Archbishop Corrigan's titles to our affecthings that were trivial and ephemeral compared to the work tionate memory is the fact that, largely owing to_ his interest 1., i genius called him to do...
...things Mr...
...She was a hysteric...
...trine and the Fascist Internationale...
...o1 the Middle States and Maryland ]a.titatboal Member of the American Council on Education...
...It will take its place, inevitably, upon the shelves spective of religion or nationality...
...Yet, just for this, the book is a more etc...
...DINO BIGONGIARI He is the author of Pages From the Book of Paris, Gerald Northrop, and The Lonely Warrior...
...Bolitho's book was written) Amendola died as but as "a variety of Socialist boss," a callous, dishonest oppor- a result of wounds received from his brutal beatings, a nontunist who "has robbed his own country of liberty and of all existent death-bed statement from him, saying that he had that makes life in common worth while," and in whose regime died of a disease from which he had suffered for years and is no idea, no constructive doctrine, nothing-only the reckless absolving the Fascists of all responsibility, was lavishly pubwill to power...
...Such a man is Captain Cook...
...when, after the Matteotti murder, "the majority of the parliaIt might almost be said that in proportion to the frankness mentary opposition refused collaboration with him," Mussolini of its acknowledgment by him, will his own sincerity be judged...
...But his fame rests upon ground that is not to be of that little has been destroyed...
...HIS book, which deserves every praise, is not a history As to the book we are dealing with it is written by a man of the Maid of France but, as the subtitle declares: A of great erudition and wide reading, in an attractive manner Study of the Supernatural in Her Life and Mission...
...Moreover, the wild nationalism that has sprung up Ie describes coldly the terrible and terribly corrupt "Ras" since the war is, I believe, characteristic only of the noisy system, gives an account of the Cheka and shows how the minority...
...Registered under the Regent, of New York State...
...Even so far does his hatred carry him as to lead him to assert that "Joan was worth nothing NEW YORK CITY as a soldier, and her influence with the French army was very In the Fieldston-Riverdale Section small...
...all conception of the supernatural, and the object of this book is to show such people how to look at these things from the MARYWOOD COLLEGE only point of view from which they are in the least compre- MOUNT SAM MARY, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA hensible...
...Niggardliness, receiving the Last Sacraments...
...The jury of award is composed of the following E. W. CHANDLER and JOHN ROSE GILDEA are new contributors to The Commonweal...
...Honors and recognition, accepted in ChrisFrank Leslie's publications...
...When they narrate, it is with economy, Competition and almost entirely without color...
...He was the official publicist of Guatemala under President Herrera...
...JOEL E. SPINGARN REV...
...To such a scholarly and un- It is pleasant to record that, toward the close of Shea's life, worldly mind as his, immersed in the past, this may seem a the difficulties and hardships that pressed upon him for so minor deprivation...
...To one, a brief biog- amounting at times to discourtesy and hostility, he had to suffer raphy of judge William Gaston, by Dr...
...Again, I do not agree with Mr...
...These were cases of deliberate destruction, while of those T HE volumes issued periodically by the United States resulting from ignorance and indifference it would be impossible Catholic Historical Society are always a mine of informa- to make a record...
...It in contest for The Leahy Dante Prize of One was written painstakingly and, like a corduroy road, is made Thousand Dollars is highly encouraging to the of logs...
...Bolitho, "no more a doctrine of Fascism than a docpiled figures...
...Not only has done bore only a slight proportion to the work that remained little been done," he writes the rear before his death, "but some to do...
...Sand for illustrated circular to B. W. FEENEY, 1004 Grand Central Terminal, NEW YORK, N. Y...
...the career of this girl of seventeen just because it has lost BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE...
...will profoundly affect American public opinion in regard to Most important of all are the chapters on the Fascist doc- Fascism...
...A Father Ulrich, one of shaken by changes in literary fashion...
...That Shea was also refused access to the collection is interest, not always of a nature pleasant to contemplate across certain from his letter to Father Audran, dated November the perspective of years...
...it the only hope, for the moment, lies in the unshakably coldly investigates searchingly such matters as the Fascist doctrine, hostile attitude of the Church, which remains unmoved by the foreign policy of Fascism, its enemies, Fascist finance, the all Mussolini's cheap attempts to placate it-his abolition of militia, the Fascist Internationale...
...appeared...
...case...
...There is," examination based on the actual facts and on carefully com- says Mr...
...Balaam came to curse but remained to bless and so did Dumas, whose COURSES : Liberal Arts, Science, Pedagogy, Comevidence is entirely in favor of the singular sanity of the Maid merce, Architecture, Civil and Industrial Engineerand of the absence of any evidence for hallucinations in her ing...
...One hopes that never under any circumstances treat in a systematic fashion geographical units that still stand could such an injustice as it reveals be perpetrated today...
...Year Catholic city he got the help and inspiration that was to be in and year out," says Dr...
...JAMES J. WALSH BERCHMANS BOWER All essays must be addressed to: STRAFFORD BOW LAKE A MOUNTAIN-LAKE NEW HAMPSHIRE CAMP FOR,BOYS Permanent Buildings...
...gathered, bound and indexed by his predecessor, to be destroyed...
...Bolitho gives an excellent concise ac- can slip through it...
...CLAUDE C. WASHBURN is an American writer, long resident in Italy...
...Almost it is ballasted with significant figures, data, and statistics...
...foreword by Allan Forbes...
...which, in the hands prize...
...What they The Leahy Dante Prize do they are, so clearly and completely that there is no need of words...
...she who wished in all things to do Opens in September, 1926 as Mother Church would desire...
...He shows patiently, what has been shown to lished by the Fascist press...
...2. The essay shall be written in English, and its litThe book is appropriately illustrated and contains a pleasant erary merit shall be considered an important element of its value...
...And no American 370 THE COMMONWEAL August 18, 1926 Catholic historian of the future, no matter how vividly and to fit the most recently accomplished facts...
...She was even a devil-wor- Write foe Prospectus shipper...
...The great majority are still blessedly without it, semi-official murder of Matteotti destroyed it before it had leading their lives much as before, and cultivated thoughtful reached full growth...
...She was coached Bronx, New York City by wily priests-who must then have been greater masters of the art of war than the professional soldiers of the day...
...the newspapers were suppressed first to stop their tongues, and the theory The Macmillan Company...
...Dr...
...after history, and there are new names among the contestants, spending, with the author, long Arctic winters locked in the the merit of whose work leaves the decision and award ice in the dark...
...College for Women...
...Chartered by the State of Pennsylvania...
...For example, when recently revealing the man as neither a Napoleon nor a Mohammed (since Mr...
...translated saw saints and heard them talking to her as either crazy or by Joseph Murphy...
...August 18, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 37 T Saint Joan of Arc, by Chanoine Justin Rousseil...
...New York: 1926...
...Member of the Thus we have been told that she was an imposter...
...I can only note hastily a few of the perfect system, a bit overdone, too flattering to the Fascists...
...The first was his poverty...
...It is not so much a book as the raw material for a hopes of the donor and the committee that will award the book: one of, say one-quarter its length...
...Probably the great-souled writer siasm for research, the destruction of records of the past comes who never gave a thought to fame or repute, was conscious home as a positive calamity...
...One, of cross almost to the end of his laborious life...
...the suppression of a free press and of all freedom of speech It displays profound knowledge of the situation and its origins...
...For well-nigh twenty years his and material aid, the great historian's later years were his haponly steady income came from his salary as editor-in-chief of piest and easiest...
...Bolitho...
...with an introduction by Allan Forbes...
...in most instances on a mixture of ignorance and facile emo- It is indeed hard to start a revolution today against an organtionalism...
...abolished all but a straw parliament and then launched the HENRY LONGAN STUART...
...How, then, came it that she led all the victorious onslaughts, the tactics for which were her own...
...They BOOKS were all destroyed by order of Abbot Wimmer...
...after fighting mutinies and incendiary fires on entirely open at the present time...
...a man who has done things,-not a THE preliminary survey of the manuscripts received writer of books...
...count of Mussolini's early public history and punctures once There is also, I think, a good deal of Machiavellianism for all the cheap legend that has been built up about him, manque about the Fascist regime...
...Shea," he admits regretfully, "was not able to scholar and gentleman by domestic suffering, is almost un- solve a problem which yet remains to be answered : how to believable...
...and Murdock Aves...
...BENJAMIN R. C. Low...
...But it will be of interest to Though I hinted my wish very clearly, I forbore to press it, recapitulate a few of the attendant circumstances which as I thought that, though once intended for the Church, my heighten the merit of his career and earn him his place in actual lay position would be an obstacle to my rummaging a the martyrology of learning...
...DR CHARLES HALL GRANDGENT BENJAMIN R. C. Low is a lawyer, and the author of The Sailor Who Has Sailed, A Wand and Strings, and Broken Music and Other Poems...
...From the great cardinal-archbishop of America's work that many another man could have done as well...
...Bolitho's estimate of the helplessness of Fascism's eneon Fascism by the majority of Americans, even those who mies, vastly in the majority though they are and comprising all ought to know better, are depressing, founded as they are that is best and finest in the nation, makes distressing reading...
...failing in judgment at moments of crisis...
...Exactly who the Catholic Church under democracy, which will not find or what was responsible for the disappearance of this invaluable itself anticipated and answered in this historic address...
...mind is called on to suffer when economic reasons subject it Faults have been found with Gilmary Shea's magnum opus: to the shrewd, coarse, money-getting instinct, were Shea's The History of the Church in the United States...
...There is something in it as irre- of his faults, as he was certainly conscious that what he had parable as the burning of the sibylline books...
...Father Audran, of Vincennes, made an attempt his death on February 22, 1892, only "short biographical no- to have them sent back, but Bishop Bayley refused to give them tices" have paid tribute to a life that is full of inspiration and up...
...ized tyranny...
...he made his mistakes while she never did...
...Most anything or anyone to the book itself...
...MON WEAL...
...amount J'''i Ovat'Ve...
...It was sense of superiority but because one dealt with them as in.more radical than any program of radical Italian Socialists...
...Dumas, a competent neurologist, to make a careful examina- Conducted by The Christian Brothers tion into Joan's record with the hope that he might light on facts consonant with the great hysteria theory...
...DR...
...The twenty-seventh, just Hardest of all to endure must have been the coldness, published, is notable for two articles...
...the high seas...
...RFIv...
...though no one ever was clearer in her mind nor more un- Nereid (238th St...
...HENRY OSBORN TAYLOR It Has Everything a Camp Should Have DR...
...Registration For Upper Classmen, September 16-17, After all, the matter is neatly and completely summed up 1926 by an unbeliever in religion, Bernard Shaw, when he says: College classes begin September 23, 1926 "The simplest French peasant who believes in apparitions of celestial persons to favored mortals is nearer to the scientific BROTHER THOMAS, President truth about Joan than the rationalist and materialist hisrforians and essayists who feel bound to set down a girl who 372 THE COMMONWEAL August 18, 1926 Pursuing the Whale, by John A. Cook...
...The mere fact is his life's best exploitation, oppression, all the humiliations that the unworldly epitome, and the best epitaph on his death...
...The second hardship came from his knowledge that he had Another, which it is not so easy to admit, is a somewhat oraarrived terribly late on the scene and that his material was torical style, noticeable in a day when so few men write from perishing before his eyes...
...Resident Chaplain DANTE COMMITTEE, THE COMMONWEAL 300 Acres of Play Land, Golf, Horseback Riding and AU Grand Central Terminal, New York Other Outdoor Activities...
...It is with some surprise that we read, on turning "What had happened to the Brute papers will probably never to a preface, that, although thirty-four years have passed since be known...
...To any American who, like the present re- trine of smallpox...
...terrible indictment of the regime than the hysterical attacks On one or two points---of speculation, not of fact-I differ of most of Fascism's enemies, and beneath it, despite Mr...
...she who wore the scapular HIGH SCHOOL, GRAMMAR, PRIMARY of the Third Order of Saint Francis, a much more serious business then than now...
...she Conducted by MARIST BROTHERS who declared at her trial that she had never confided her revelations to any cleric...
...3. The nature of the essay desired is of an interpretative rather than of a philological or research character...
...Volume XXVII...
...T. LAWRASON RIGGS REV...
...after serving as extemporary surgeon to the injured, and generator of morale for a whole ship's company, The Commonweal wishes to emphasize that the final and at every opportunity, adventuring one's fortunes, and not date for the acceptance of the Dante manuscripts in this infrequently, one's life, upon what the author calls the "saving" contest will be the first day of September, 1926...
...New York: Houghton Mifflin Company...
...4-00M EN of action seldom speak another language...
...DR...
...lfeiWst and Day Strdsat...
...Among the documents for which he speech delivered by this early champion of Catholic liberties, had the most urgent need for his history were the letters of at the North Carolina Convention in June, 1830, and it is Bishop Brute of Vincennes, whose life as priest and bishop in enough to say that there is hardly any argument advanced in America from 18io to 1839 "coincided with some of the most our own day for the curtailment of the liberties enjoyed by important years in Catholic American history...
...I find the account of the Fascist tyranny, the it is too full of matter...
...by the committee in charge Moreover, this record of an ended era is of very real his1. The competition is open to all contestants irre- torical value...
...Very unsavory and unmentionable composts are employed to raise rare flowers, and France brought forth Andrew Lang's masterpiece on the Maid from which much quotation is freely 1 JFor Freshmen, September 13-14, 1926 made in the book under review...
...apart ecclesiastically in spite of all identities and similarities...
...All manuscripts should be whose books include Little Beasts of Field and Wood, and American Animals...
...6. The winning essay will be published in THE CoM- CUTHBERT WRIGHT is a contributor of critical and literary articles to the American magazines...
...One suspects that the idea of writing a book never would have entered his head except by persuasion...
...an indomitable commander...
...One passage in a which Dr...
...and of assembly has been shown to be appallingly easy...
...Poverty sat behind Shea's tian humility, reached him before the end...
...origins of Fascism, which have been deliberately obscured today, This, I think, in so far as it exists, is largely a reaction from and shows how power began for the party only when it sold the "inferiority complex" of pre-war days which made the out to the big industrialists...
...IL, and by a series of victories in which she outdid even Napoleon, for B. S. Education...
...studies on the various phases of Dante literature and None the less, after reading Pursuing the Whale...
...That she failed in the end at the gates of Paris was no fault of hers but the crime of a weak, worthless wretch unworthy of the name of a man, whom she had made king and who then and afterwards in her hour of need basely deserted her...
...She was an early reformer, a har- Select Boarding and Day School for Boys binger of the Protestant reformation to come, a victim of free thought versus spiritual tyranny...
...For cat logue ap¢y to Repissw...
...JOSEPH KINNEY COLLINS is a member of the English department of Berkshire School, Sheffield, Massachusetts...
...THOMAS M. SCHWERTNER, O.P...
...she, who Association of College...
...B. A...
...C. A. DINS'MORE SIR BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE is professor of anthropology in Saint Michael's College, Toronto, and the author of many books on religion and DR...
...often mutually conflicting) retrospectively, as it goes along, CLAUDE C. WASHBURN...
...non-Catholic world or a large part of it cannot understand It is adequately translated and well printed...
...dence) thinks that he did...
...For example, persuasively he writes, will dare neglect the debt he owes him...
...Guilday does not attempt to say, beyond recording The bulk of the Society's volume is given up to an article the bare fact that the future Archbishop Bayley, then bishop by Dr...
...Bolitho's Italians credit the claim...
...accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope...
...250 per season...
...For instance, I doubt whether Facta Bolitho's claim to objectivity and rigid impartiality, there really did have a secret agreement with Mussolini at the moglows a passion of hatred that is of tremendous import be- ment of the march on Rome...
...Outside of the imperative mood, they appear ill at case and taciturn...
...theory that parliaments and democratic government will not work, are outworn...
...Such are the fantastic legends invented by those who will not or cannot use their common sense to look at things as they are...
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