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...circumstance that he was the first writer in the realm of the Czars that his name has become a watchword in his country...
...Pushkin, in- fluenced it, nor his readers...
...The fact that his life was not permitted to lated, is Anatole France in Slippers...
...New York: E. P. Dutton elegant but the heart is absent from all his works, perhaps and Company...
...Skene thought it was Bouden Then again, Pushkin remained all through his life (and Hill, not far from Linlithgow, at the foot of which flows this Prince Mirsky admits) under the influence of the early a Scottish Avon, showing that some Brython had left his French education he had received-of the French atmosphere native world for water...
...The intentions idea, very prevalent at one time in certain circles of the Rus- of the present book about Pinkney would therefore merit sian capital's society...
...association with M. France, though at different times, leave A UGUSTIN COCHIN, as has been said elsewhere in this practically identical impressions of the character and mode of issue, was one of the representative French Catholic laythought of their protagonist...
...After all, what is Pushkin...
...Extensive campus...
...There were no knights, no Round Table...
...It is due to the CATHERINE RADZIWILL...
...Burney's contention that Christ was one of the innocence of Dreyfus and in the truth of communism never earliest among the Hebrews to make serious use of rhymes, led him into putting himself into any sort of danger...
...Almost of necessity a pioneer discussion of some An accredited standard college for girls...
...His life brought him into intimate contact with great maliciously emphasizes the master's method of composing with churchmen like Montalembert and Duchesnes, with leaders of the aid of scissors and paste, his regard for the finished product the stamp of Ozanam and Le Play, with statesmen among is no less enthusiastic...
...The Life and Works of Edward Coote Pinkney, by Thomas Prince Mirsky must be a very young man, and probably Ollive Mabbott and Frank Lester Pleadwell...
...obscure person tends to become a bibliographical manual rather tnnrys Courses leading to Bachelor and Master than a life-story...
...Letters to and It is easy to see why M. France chose Brousson for his from these, arranged and edited with rare skill, enrich two secretary...
...loosely mounted on passe-partout, may be heart...
...Outdoor praise of Poe for a laurel wreath...
...Or perhaps it was at Badbury Rings, an ancient be detected in the works of Karamzine, whose historical studies earthwork in Dorsetshire, steep to climb, but with a magnifi- breathe of the French classic school...
...Devoted to various forms of political and Le Goff are admirers of France as an artist, and even in social endeavor, he was also a trenchant writer and successful large measure, as a thinker...
...But as time went on, it was discovered that there was a good deal more in tradition than the early critics were willing to admit...
...There, according whether Prince Mirsky has read the little book which another to legend...
...Unfortunately for the hero-worshipper, intellectual Catholics in the United States neglected these M. Le Goff is also a truthful reporter, and the reporter pre- rich and suggestive books...
...Snell for the large amount of useful in- basket•bell, tennis, etc...
...and it is true that he suffered fools...
...New York: New College Buildings in a splendid setting The Adelphi Company...
...It is well named, for extend beyond 1872 may, in a measure, be responsible for it leaves him in his slippers and in precious little else...
...New York: E. P. HIGH SCHOOL Registered by the University of the State of New York and by the Dutton and Company...
...These lived in that dark era which Belloc calls "the gap," from A. D. 410, when the legions left Britain a prosperous civilized land, through a period of 187 years, up to 597, when the mist rises and we find the same country decadent beyond belief as the result of THOUGHT that lengthy period of pagan oppression against which Arthur, and incidentally, Ambrosius, waged war...
...his age...
...which most of us know Arthur is entirely anachronistic, being Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor that of an age of chivalry which had not dawned when he Contents for September occupied the stage...
...The fact is that Arthur was the Brythonic hero, and which allows a writer to influence, not the mind nor the inwhere the Brythons were strong, there are stories about him telligence, but the soul of his contemporaries...
...house New York's famous old Catholic College T HERE is a type of literary mind which revolts at the suggestion that a man's private life, his every-day char- Conducted by The Christian Brothers acter, be studied in connection with his work...
...These places have also been identified in can never overlook-the fact that Pushkin, in spite of his Brittany, and one enthusiast has even located them in Lan- wonderful talent, absolutely lacked the divine spark of genius cashire...
...CATHOLICISM AND PESSIMISM Arthur almost certainly belonged to Somerset, and it is Robert H. Hull likely that the remarkable earthwork, known as Cadbury Subscription-Five Dollars a Year Castle, was the original of "many-towered Camelot...
...A striking example of this is given by Dr...
...His was talent that might have become genius...
...Physical training...
...A Quarterly o f the Sciences and Letters Such being the case, it must be obvious that the setting in WILFRID PARSONS, S.1...
...The ruins there are of a castle MONIST OR MANICHEAN...
...whom Thiers and Falloux may be mentioned...
...Commissioned high school...
...Arthur, and subsequently Guinevere, his wife, were very distinguished modern Russian author, Prince Serge Wolkburied...
...as the huge Round Table which hangs in the hall at Win- IMAGERY AS AN ELEMENT IN LANGUAGE chester, which Henry VIII showed to Francis I, of France, Stephen J. Brown, S.J...
...Van Cordandt Park and 242nd Street NEW YORK CITY Anatole France Himself, by Jean Jacques Brousson...
...Horseback riding...
...Now it would never do to de- (P...
...Perhaps on the river entirely discarded it was Turgeniev...
...of Gorlois, a minor king...
...be essential for the saving of his country...
...Opens in September, 1926 That is Shelley's Epipsychidion, of course...
...But he neither innor even Leonid Andreyev or Maxim Gorky...
...his daily life has left no impression...
...Intensive courses open to students preparing for the teaching our Lady, and to uphold it in the case of Arthur and others...
...In the time of Henry II, and at the desire of that honsky, has written on this subject, and in which the whole king, we are told that the grave was opened and the coffins part played by Pushkin in the December conspiracy is much of these monarchs with their inscriptions found...
...To such, the artist, when he enters his work-room, closes other things than his physical door-he closes as well the door of an hermeti- COURSES : Liberal Arts, Science, Pedagogy, Comcally sealed spiritual and intellectual compartment, and pro- merce, Architecture, Civil and Industrial Engineerceeds to the expression of a self upon which the imprint of ing...
...Such a man and places named after him-such as Arthur's Seat, near was Dostoievsky, such a man was Tolstoy, such a man was Edinburgh...
...The air seems never to have borne a cloud, HIGH SCHOOL, GRAMMAR, PRIMARY Save where volcanoes send to heaven their curled And solemn smokes, like altars of the world...
...and as for his volume, The Poetry of Our Lord, that Christ generally obsuffering fools, he certainly did not suffer them gladly, but served in His utterances the rhythms and parallelisms that solely because they stimulated his contempt for humanity...
...departure of the legions...
...2.50...
...The singly...
...ligence of his generation...
...M. Le Goff continually harps upon the master's The Poetry of Our Lord, by C. F. Burney...
...eternally culminating in wickedness, hypocrisy, and which he describes as a little poem consisting of two four-beat slaughter...
...a man alike vain and vindictive, It will be good news to the admirers of Dorn Pedro Suberwhose superficial charm covered a mind mean to an incred- caseaux Errazuriz's fine series of watercolors illustrating the ible degree...
...The first Russian writer who where was Camlan where he fell...
...THE EDUCATION OF A PRESCHOOL CHILD Paul Hanly Furfey, Ph.D...
...He lived in dreadful times...
...He A T last it is beginning to be realized that there was an has drawn for us a very clever, instructive, and from a certain American literature during the opening nineteenth cenpoint of view, faithful sketch of the poet's character and liter- tury-a literature, that is, which reached beyond the two ary work...
...Had reader with one of the masters of Russian literature, he lived fifty years later, had he, in spite of the lawlessness should be judged from the foreign point of view-and for this of his private life, not always been the slave of conventions reason it is difficult for a Russian to pass an impartial judg- he hated but from which he could not escape, his was a talent ment upon it...
...Extensive Campus, field hockey, grateful to Mr...
...GEORGE N. SHUSTER...
...They would have had to face the whole treacherous western Another circumstance that communicated to the whole Cornish and Devon coasts, right up to the Bristol Channel...
...He was, of course, not the son of CATHOLIC POETRY Theodore Maynard Uther, the pendragon or ruler of the west, by a base trick THE AMERICAN COLLEGE AND CATHOLIC played through the art of Merlin on Ygerne, the lovely wife EDUCATION W. F. Cunningham, C.S.C...
...2-40- New Jersey State Board of Education...
...Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Com- In the Fieldston-Riverdale Section pany...
...The two books, written by two men who had been in dose Paris: Librarie Bloud et Gay...
...Augustin Cochin: Ses Letters et Sa Vie, by Henry Cochin...
...This atmospehre can even of towns...
...He contends that Christ composed His prayer in and proclaimed himself a communist...
...Still more remarkable from a poetical point of neither was M. France...
...are but vaguely perpetuated in the antiphons of the Latin M. Le Goff himself writes : "The world and men seemed Testaments...
...but a tradition and a literary legend, none the less...
...but at the same time he has never had over his was the first one to give it the realistic direction to which, countrymen the influence acquired by Tolstoy or Dostoievsky, later on, it owed so much of its fame...
...I doubt scription, but cannot be dealt with here...
...It is refreshing to find that he does believe that there was an Arthur...
...The publishers, Messrs...
...The general idea is that it was at in which the Russian better classes in the beginning of the Bath, on one of the hills which surround that most attractive nineteenth century were living...
...Either, as Conan Doyle would probably claim, there which also contains much authoritative inion regarding foot-ills and their corwas a ghost, or as most reasonable people would hold, there rective treatment...
...a struggling lawyer, blighted in his hopes by a damaging reputation as a An ideal school for girls, 80 miles from te art's Chicago...
...But one cannot overlook the interest of Pinkney for literary historians 01 -n--) 01 Otlttt t. itIaet'~ who wish to follow the strange meanderings of romantic feel- Nereid (238th St...
...Address Secretary...
...2.50...
...and if M. Brousson somewhat editor...
...sents us with a character identical to that revealed by M. Brousson...
...formation which he has gathered from all sources for this book...
...the shadow of the December Revolution which inaugurated It is a fascinating legend and one which would repay de- it, was hovering over the whole of Russian society...
...FRANCIS P. LOBUFFE, SJ...
...line, of the ascetic spirit of the gentle saint...
...Errazuriz are redolent, in their delicate coloring and frugal GRENVILLE VERNON...
...It should be added that Augustin true tradition of the Gallic ironists, and the maliciousness of Cochin's position as a liberal is of great importance to the his treatment of his former employer shows that from that student of politics and religion in contemporary France...
...5.00...
...The well-known "PEDIFOIeA E." man of great size, clad in bronze armor with gold scaleslust WHICH style to specify may be dethe sort of man who might have been in Wales in Arthur's cided upon after a perusal of our catalog days...
...a man alike void of faith in God or in his fellow beings...
...This THE AMERICA PRESS is all desperately disputed, for Skene, a learned Scot, identi- 4849 Grand Central Terminal, New York, N. Y. fied every place associated with Arthur in southern Scotland, 410 THE COMMONWEAL September 1, 1926 even finding a Mons Badonicus, the scene of one of the king's that he has failed to see one important fact an impartial judge eleven battles...
...MARY'S ACADEMY, Box W., Notre Dame, Ind...
...The one idealistic book of his career, Le Crime life of Saint Francis of Assisi, which The Commonweal noticed de Sylvestre Bonnard, he dismissed contemptuously as hav- in its issue of December 2, 1925, that they are now available, ing been written to gain recognition by the Academy...
...and an editor far too prone to resent attacks upon his Regular curriculums, Vocational courses policies and integrity, even to the point of issuing challenges in Music, Dramatic Art, Fine Arts, Home in high-handed fashion...
...Bachelor degree in arts, science, and music...
...The popular legend is that Arthur never died, but papers found in Pushkin's desk after his death, was a drawing sits in a cave like Holgar Danske, in the Scandinavian legend, representing the execution of the five Decembrists who were or the O'Donoghue of the Lakes, in Kerry-asleep among hung, with the inscription in his own hand under it, "I could his knights and awaiting the moment when his return will also have been there...
...and Murdock Aves...
...Music, Art, Journalism, Science, formation concerning Pinkney than of Pinkney himself...
...In this very book there is again recounted the remarkable case of the burial mound near Flint, in Wales, Good "Uncle Sam" called Bryn yr Ellyllon, to which, from time immemorial, Gave us the rule A scientific shoe renews was attached a legend that it was haunted by a ghost in golden On orthopedic arts "Foot-youth"-and all of youl His research proved m Wartime's school armor...
...When which had been for the most part generally confined to popuhe scented real trouble or the merest hint of personal peril, lar verses...
...Translated by John Pollack...
...Yet this was the man who came out for Dreyfus triptychs...
...September I, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 409 BOOK S INSTITUTE OF HOLY ANGELS, Fort Lee, N. J. King Arthur's Country, by F. J. Snell...
...Daniel J. Connor, S. T. L. built much later than Arthur's time...
...better described than in his own...
...About the time of Christ the practice among the he promptly retreated into his shell...
...There is refreshment M. Le Goff also is a Frenchman, and being a Frenchman in the acquaintance afforded by the letters with a man so enhe, too, has a sense of irony...
...Petersburg...
...And yet of all his writings, that book will probably procured from them for $2.0o each...
...deed, was more a precursor than a prophet...
...Outdoor sports...
...A copy will be sent FREE, on request for book K. was a very tough tradition...
...But in doing so he has followed a preconceived provinces of Massachusetts and New York...
...but just where it comes in, it is difficult to see...
...His biographers offer no information nor does it' seem likely that definite proof of affiliation could be adduced...
...At all events, his belief both in the view is Dr...
...MARY'S COLLEGE, Box W., Notre Dame, Ind...
...Well, gossip and scandal though it be, most of us will be grateful 411 THE COMMONWEAL September 1, 1926 for the opportunity these two books afford to meet "the master" BRIEFER MENTION at his fireside...
...Zhukovsky could never cent view from the summit...
...probably his Latinized name was Artorius) and that he flour- 36 West 36th Savet 322 Livingston Street New York Brooklyn, N. Y. ished as a minor.king or "laird," together with another shadowy great figure, one Ambrosius (which was Welshed as Emrys, still a surname in the principality...
...That Home Economics, Sociology, Teacher grave, impetuous, chivalric young man does, however, peer otree,Dome training...
...Arthur, in fact, was one of the Romanized British aristocracy, PERIPATETIC MATTER AND FORM left behind to do what they could for their country after the J. A. McWilliams, S.J...
...the heathen were routed...
...5.00...
...To assert that for judg- Freshman class limited to 200...
...ing in America...
...the drift which affairs have since taken...
...Village, reaching the foot of the hill on which the Tor now It is difficult for us now to realize the conditions of existence stands where was the great abbey, Glastonbury of the Gael, in Russia in the first years of the reign of Nicholas I, when said to have been founded by Saint Joseph of Arimathea...
...The aquarelles of Dom 'be the one which will survive...
...and here one sees much more of curious in- Degrees...
...New York: "goodness...
...He employer he learned his lesson And learned it well...
...Even so, this and other overtones of romanticism in the American poet's work are suggestive and interesting, proving as they do that Pinkney was suf- Manhattan College ficiently original to listen alertly to the most kingly music of the nineteenth century...
...and being such, tries to make so well equipped for action...
...M. Brousson, like M. France, is of the practise reading of this kind...
...Conducted by MARIST BROTHERS "Nature is delicate and graceful there, The place's genius, feminine and fair Select Boarding and Day School for Boys The winds are awed, nor dare to breathe- aloud...
...He certainly was not...
...poet...
...So all tradition was jettisoned...
...It is now pretty generally admitted that there was an Arthur PEDIFORME SHOE CO...
...Yet the impression will not I T will be an interesting revelation to many readers, not down that his support for the under dog rested not on love special students of the Scriptures, to read in Dr...
...The sponsored the republic loyally and tried to effect a loyal comoriginal French title of M. Brousson's book, literally trans- promise with it...
...His verses are fine, his prose wonderfully clever, his style artistically Pushkin, by Prince D. S. Mirsky...
...sports...
...2.00...
...Home economics department...
...but it is just possible that THE MEXICAN CONSTITUTION OF 1824 AND the visitor there may see one of those rare birds, the choughs-- 1857 Marie Regina Madden, M-4the ghosts of Arthur's followers...
...a naval officer, abandoning the career for the sake of love and independence...
...Burney's for him, but on contempt for the upper dog...
...Both M. Brousson and M. men of his time...
...Marshall Jones Company, of Anatole France hailed by the world, was ashamed of his youth, 212 Summer Street, Boston, announce that examples of any ashamed that once he had written a book which possessed a of the pictures...
...Cultural and professional eduoil ,cle- cation...
...elements of Hebrew poetry in the discourses of Jews makes This, as revealed in these two books, is the man whom the an important contribution to literary history as well as to world has been told to regard as the greatest literary light of Scripture exegesis and liturgy...
...but they will deny that either of these books can be of the slightest value in a discussion of M. College classes begin September 23, 1926 France's own literary productions...
...Who can say, or who can tell quite get himself rid of it...
...It is true, he took the part at times of the under dog...
...He has become so absorbed in his hero, great praise, were its real merits far less outstanding than September r, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 41 they are...
...Anatole France at Home, by Marcel Le Goff...
...profession...
...Burney alike to him in all times, without change or modification of in his discussion of the Aramaic form of the Lord's Prayer, any sort...
...a sensualist, utterly cynical, to whom love meant nothing but animal desire...
...In the last century the mound was opened by com- The foot's important parts If you would weir the proper shoe Correct in looks and form petent archaeologists, and there they found a skeleton of a Your feet should be well shod in shoes Please specify-be sure you dolCorrect, corrective, too...
...Unlike M. Brousson, however, thusiastic and yet so tactful, so spiritually meditative and yet he is as well a hero-worshipper...
...Horseback riding...
...His trace in the greatest impression on the intellectual movement of his modern Russian literature will never be effaced, because he own country...
...but could Pinkney Write for Prospectus have known that supremely beautiful poem...
...He said to M. Le Goff Hebrews of phrasing their petitions in rhymes began to be that he was no hero...
...his education-the Imperial Lyceum in St...
...It sometimes has the fine grace of the seventeenth-century song-writers, and sometimes the brooding speculation which later on would flower in Lanier...
...as in very truth the table at which Arthur and his knights sat...
...and a young poet dead, with the cad my otre Ddive Economics, Commercial Subjects...
...0. Address Convent Station) A Catholic college for women, registered by the New York State IIttlnounce tradition, say in connection with the Assumption of versity and the New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Boards of Eduatwn...
...Oxford University Press...
...Had he done so, he would Of course it is denied, as almost every historical statement is, undoubtedly have mentioned the circumstance that among the by many...
...Two volumes, 30 francs...
...One of his early poems, for instance, is Bronx, New York City entitled Italy, describing "fairy isles like paintings on the sky...
...Pushkin is one of the writers who have left that might have become something truly great...
...They will hold that the publication of the two studies of For Freshmen, September 13-14, 1926 the French ironist by M. Brousson and M. Le Goff is un- Registration For Upper Classmen, September 16-17, fortunate or amusing, according to whether or not they like 1926 what is scandalous...
...Physical training...
...For catalog address : The Registrar, Practically unheeded excepting by the more diligent an- ST...
...Is it true...
...because he never dared give way to it, afraid of saying too T HIS book, being written entirely to acquaint the foreign much...
...Leonid Andreyev in some of his works-notably in The Seven Where was that great battle at the Mons Badonicus, when That Were Hanged...
...thologists, Pinkney's little volume of 1825 is nevertheless genuinely lyrical...
...Burney's examination of the formal both a physical and a moral coward...
...All these things are as much inventions INTO HISTORY Gilbert J. Garraghan, S.J...
...ment of the work of Anatole France a knowledge of the man himself is necessary, will, of course, outrage these tender souls...
...of his education at Saint Mary's...
...New buildings on extensive from between the pages-the son of a much traveled family, campus...
...Secretariat Department, Elementary School S TUDENTS of literature and history have reason to be Special advance ea in Musk and Art...
...In short, it would be a pity if himself an apologist...
...This accounts, in great Camel-a crooked stream, as its Celtic root indicates...
...For catalog address: The Registrar, who happened at last into Baltimore where he received some ST...
...A certain phase of thought at one time, College of Saint Elizabeth utterly refused to have anything to do with tradition because MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY it was a Catholic principle...
...There is much that is kindred in the two men's volumes which one recommends without hesitation to all who approach to life...
...THE EMERGENCE OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY no Siege Perilous...
...place at Tintagel, in Cornwall-a .lovely spot now much John X. Price, S.J...
...For all his admiration, this manner with the intention of aiding our memory for its M. Le Goff was not fooled ; and we have a suspicion that recitation...
...A great tradition, if you likeBERTRAM C. A. WINDLE...
...The man who introduced, and Jesus first recited the Lord's Prayer in a series won the Noble Prize was, there is no use blinking the fact, of these rhymes...
...New York: was brought up in the same school where Pushkin received The Macmillan Company...
...and some of us will be of the opinion that the man there revealed to us explains much of the man's work...
...marred by a huge hotel...
...That event was said to have taken CAN AMERICA BE COMMUNIZED...
...works of Pushkin something artificial, was the constraint under and then they might have crossed the shallow meres in the which he wrote, and which prevented him from giving us midst of which, perhaps, still flourished the well-known Lake the full measure of his talent...
...If so, part, for the preeminent place which his works acquired in the he could not have been rowed to the Vale of Avallon by four literature of his country, and in the development of the intelqueens-or by any but a sturdy crew in a well-found boat...
...To them his works are BROTHER THOMAS, President what they area-the rest is mere gossip and scandal...
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