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...Love positively refuses to mented portions...
...and secondly, to bring that work into its place in the organic evolution of English poetry...
...IMAGERY AS AN ELEMENT IN LANGUAGE Stephen J. Brown, S.J...
...De La Mare, that he "sheds meanings...
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...He has lectured in Sydney and Adelaide as well as in Birmingham and London, always on his favorite topic, and he gathers these lectures together in his latest book...
...It has been assumed by H. C. Lea and other writers that the Inquisition was only too willing to act against Jews and heretics on the slenderest grounds...
...The author admits that the Catholic defense against Jews and heretics was quite justifiable...
...Love has to say...
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...Protestant millenarianism is not new...
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...The Jews, after the fourth century, were found denying the Messianic application of Old-Testament prophecies which, they formerly had agreed...
...The Reformation, in its turn, "contributed to the rise of the German Aufklaerung which in Germany produced a Lessing's Nathan, der Weise, and in France gave rise to the French Revolution and Jewish political emancipation...
...A Meredithian phrase may be used of 432 THE COMMONWEAL September 8, i926 Mount Juicfjael'g Nereid (238th St...
...Flapper Anne is an honest endeavor to draw one of the socalled "Amazons of Freedom," for whatever she may or may not stand...
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...tion of impending cataclysms which would sweep away the However that may be, even philosophic persons can profit apostate Romish Church and usher in the true kingdom of by a reading of what Mr...
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...Elzabethan voices to record reactions as different as those who W E have enough experience with bandits in our own experienced them...
...Thev condemned the Church for withholding the sacred volume from the laity on account of the heretical footnotes, and harked back to the professed fountainhead of inspiration-the Masoretic text interpreted by the rabbis...
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...Given a southern village as a background for the outrageous antics and vocabulary of Anne, the contrast becomes obvious...
...Registration For Upper Classmen, September 16-17, Froude extenuates the Queen's extremes against those who 1926 clung to the faith of their fathers...
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...governmental polity than does the dogmatic Froude in his September 8, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 431 Reign of Queen Elizabeth...
...Harris intends, but is quite an ordinary one...
...The book is an addition to minor American biography reformer who was brought to the stake by John Calvin...
...One and will, no doubt, find and keep its place on the shelves to is inclined to agree with him that the relation of Servetus to which readers turn hopefully and not in vain...
...They were written to be heard, not studied-but the inner ear of the reader will find them thoroughly rewarding...
...Company...
...Physical training...
...recalls how-as in New York today-in Oxford, in 1603 ( at Freshman class limited to 200...
...One most suppose that the reasons are introjust now engaged in preparing a book on that very subject, duced by the rather ancient one to the effect that there is he sees the ultimate convergence of "modern Christianity" and nohing like a bandit for making an afternoon's reading enjoy"modern Judaism...
...In Professor Cheynev's imposing two-volume study of the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the historical narrative is based on an exact The Rise and Fall of Jesse James, by Robertus Love...
...Stately in treatment, they are marked less by any special insight than a general humane sympathy...
...They are fine examples of a not too formal discourse, on ten English poets, from Shakespeare to Swinburne...
...The reader bears this with a degree of equanimity, for although Nancy may be the fairest flower of ecstatic Puritanism, she sometimes seems positively "non compos...
...Courses leading to Bachelor and Master Degrees...
...Granted that a flapper may upset a village, and "be ready at all times for all emergencies," it is doubtful whether she is worth all the printers' ink and pulpit rhetoric that is heaped upon her...
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...The adage, "youth will be served," was not coined for this generation...
...Most of a soldier in this guerilla command, Jesse James learned the the heretics seem to have denied that the Church and the art of marksmanship...
...house New York's famous old Catholic College Professor Cheyney's history is one which appeals essentially to the intelligent reader...
...In this course they followed the Jewish example...
...THE EMERGENCE OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY Flapper Anne, by Cora Harris...
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...Contrast, to be effective, must be subtly suggested...
...In CATHOLICISM AND PESSIMISM almost every story there is an eerie background of mist-of Robert H. Hull old, sepulchral houses on gaunt sea-coasts--of men and battle- Subscription-Five Dollars a Year ments, hoary with antiquity...
...They took with reference to an impressionable young man...
...strongly pro-Judaic...
...Written by a Hebrew, it merely proves afresh that one's viewpoint decides whether one will "point with pride" to the attainments of a party, or, if an outsider, "view with alarm" the machinations of the enemy...
...There was a commercial alliance between Jews and the heretics, both parties practising the usury prohibited by the Church...
...Newman also admits that the Jews were not molested by the Inquisition save when they proselyted or conspired against the Christian state...
...Servetus was notable among his fellow Protestants on account of his reliance on the Jewish commentaries, and thus laid the foundation for the higher criticism of modern times...
...been assumed by Christendom...
...Newman is to be congratulated for his candor...
...that reads, at least, for the beauty Paul Hanly Furfey, Ph.D...
...They concealed heretics from the pursuivants...
...Cultural and professional education...
...That the Jews joined with the heretics Dr...
...Servetus also anticipated the so- the Death of Elizabeth, by Edward P. Cheyney...
...Dean Inge, not believers...
...THOUGHT FREDERICK H. MARTENS...
...What does stand out for enduring charm is the picture of the southern city and its changing small-town society...
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...Love suggests the point, but like a good narfilment of Ezechiel's prophecy concerning Gog and Magog...
...A VOLUME by Walter De La Mare is significant to THE EDUCATION OF A PRESCHOOL CHILD the world that reads...
...But Dr...
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...Sir Richard Fanshawe, translator of the Lusiads, becomes an important figure of the age of Milton...
...and instances the cruel putting to death of the Catholic priest, Richardson-hanged, drawn, and quar- BROTHER THOMAS, President tered at Tyburn, in 1602, who "showed such mildness and dignity that general compassion was expressed for him . . . and it is remarked even by our own good Protestant letterwriter that `such spectacles do nothing to increase the Gospel.' " In every way, Professor Cheyney's book represents an achievement...
...Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Triumph, by John Wiley...
...Alexander New York: Longmans, Green and Company...
...A mere contemporary chieftain appurtenances of His system, promising that they would be- like Abd-el-Krim is an exemplar of the milk of human tenderlieve in Him if He struck them down by sudden judgment...
...Newman is to be sincerely thanked for giving us such possible bad boys that the road to bandit glory is paved with a good portrayal of Michael Servetus, the anti-Trinitarian spikes...
...stories in The Connoisseur fall short in some degree of the CATHOLIC POETRY accepted excellence of that classic, The Memoirs of a Midget, Theodore Maynard and of the immemorial romance of Henry Brocken, there is THE AMERICAN COLLEGE AND CATHOLIC EDUCATION left the haunting appeal, the atmospheric tension by which, in W. F. Cunningham, C.S.C...
...Their zeal against the cross, They were a queer lot, those squatters on Missouri soil just images, and pictures of the saints was frankly Judaic...
...of the telling rather than the action of the tale...
...New and exhaustive documentation which allows hundreds of actual York: G. P. Putnam's Sons...
...3.75T HE late professor of poetry at Oxford has been recently sowing his seeds in many an alien garden...
...To sum up, the theme is the Jewish contribution to the revolt against a Catholic society-a contribution not negligible...
...Elizabeth's own death, and that a genuine affection...
...There is no clear-cut vision, but the shadowy, almost indistinguishable picture that he draws is none the less beautiful...
...In his attempt to retain the old theological terminology while providing new substance, Servetus anticipated the handful of modernists led by Abbe Loisy three A History of England, from the Defeat of the Armada to centuries before their day...
...the stirring tale of the capture of Calais...
...Nobody on the blotter of which nearly six hundred pages of text permit...
...ness compared with bloody cut-throats like Quantrill, who One of the most interesting phases of Jewish influence, supported the Confederate cause for the mere pleasure of however, is to be found in the apocalyptic obsession of the firing his pistol at human targets with statistical success...
...In this touch, Mr...
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...commencement) "cutpurses are so numerous that many of the visitors lost money, jewels, scarfs and gloves...
...From a vast Elizabethan bibliography he has drawn the authentic data he presents in lucid, Conducted by The Christian Brothers flowing style...
...referred to the Messiah...
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...But there are several others-Jesse James as a psychoThe Puritans, as the author points out, attempted to re- logical study, as an illustration of a phase in American hisvive the Old Testament theocracy and carry over bodily into tory, as a sample of what guerilla warfare will accomplish their political system the penal laws of Moses...
...Many heretics who professed Christianity, eagerly long ago, informed us that there are substrata of barbarism followed the false Messiahs who arose during the middle-ages...
...Froude (he said as much himself) approached Elizabeth-especially where her dealings with the unfortunate Mary Stuart are concerned-as a novelist does his heroine, rather than a historian his subject...
...Boston: Houghton Mifflin INTO HISTORY Gilbert J. Garraghan, S.J...
...They were strong for "the Bible and the Bible alone...
...He believes that the Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn controversy about the burning of the Talmud was the actual beginning of the Protestant Reformation...
...Newman agrees 430 THE COMMONWEAL September 8, 1926 that the influence of Judaism on Protestantism has directed Why should anybody care to read about Jesse James to the latter more and more into the paths of rationalism...
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...The Dean was probably not thinking A precursor of James Alexander Dowie, a sort of original of the James history as substantiating evidence, but the thought "Elijah III," appeared in Sicily...
...Physical training...
...He recreates "the parish" of Elizabeth's COURSES : Liberal Arts, Science, Pedagogy, Comtime as vividly as he evokes the dramatic moments of merce, Architecture, Civil and Industrial EngineerEssex's execution or, quoting John Chamberlain's letters, he ing...
...in the moated grange of their existence...
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...an achievement of human as well as scholarly interest, and a convincing recreation of a great epoch...
...Observing the tastes of such men en, ahies us to offer clothing that is intrin, sically refined and always correct...
...Nancy Hoyt, fair-haired daughter of a Congregational minister in staid Bradford, marries (after a qualm or two, alleged to be emotional) one Jeffery Kildare of New York and endeavors to take up life among the reckless fringe that supposedly inhabits that rocky island...
...Newman's investigations have shown that the Catholic anxiety was not unfounded...
...Young of the Night Thoughts and Thomson of The Seasons are burnished in his hands till they shine, one feels, with all their original lustre...
...CAN AMERICA BE COMMUNIZED...
...And the lectures on Shakespeare, Pope, Morris, Tennyson, and Swinburne are bold and happy discussions of major themes...
...a prose that is THE MEXICAN CONSTITUTIONS OF 1824 AND 1857 poetry, delicate, wistful in its imagery...
...are those who note the reactions of sensitive souls amid ROBERT R. HULL...
...Newman's book tells the Jewish side of the story...
...The zeal manifested by the heretics for the diffusion of Bibles in the vernacular is, to our author, another indication of Jewish influence...
...Love up toward certain sins a stricter attitude than had commonly utilizes all these motives and the reader may take his choice...
...and, in the midst of such that the naturally gentle and lovable son of religious, industriexcitement, the peasants were persuaded by the Jews to prac- ous, native American parents became one of the most desperate tise the observance of Saturday as the Sabbath day...
...At the same time, those parts dealing with give Jesse James credit for anything he didn't do, and so the Last Four Parliaments of Queen Elizabeth and Local skilfully punctures the assertions of previous historians that Government, supply a far more careful and reliable backhe sometimes appears to be robbing his hero of well-earned ground of actual Elizabethan village and community life and glory...
...Yet enough remains to satisfy the most exacting taste...
...What is remarkable is that the orthodox Jews themselves appealed, at one time, to the Inquisition against certain heterodox brethren...
...The new autumn style in suits and overcoats Present a very interesting display...
...Everything runs amuck on Manhattan...
...Horseback riding...
...a phraseology, inclined Marie Regina Madden, M.A...
...If these new PERIPATETIC MATTER AND FORM J. A. McWilliams, S.J...
...Campbell, by his objection to Sunday as the Christian Sabbath A LBERT GUERARD has said: "The best historians and his teaching that the decalogue has been wholly abrogated...
...They will not sur- Daniel J. Connor, S. T. L. vive in memory, but the medium will live on...
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...Perhaps this book, like dreams, was made for rainy days...
...His characters may seem but shadowy creatures moving about MONIST OR MANICHEAN...
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...A Quarterly o f the Sciences and Letters The Connoisseur, by Walter De La Mare...
...Mackail's object has been twofold-"to disengage the living and effective poetical value of the work of selected English poets...
...New York: Longmans, Green and Company...
...The plot, unfortunately, is obvious too, with its hackneyed hero, the rude, yet inevitably strong, silent young doctor...
...rator goes ahead with his story and pauses only to remind Dr...
...And behind them all is an THE AMERICA PRESS underlying sense of the supernatural...
...language fitly chosen, Mr...
...Newman repeatedly states...
...They postponed the ad- vented from practising any other art by the prejudices which vent of the latter to the future, and were always in expecta- appeared in the aftermath of war...
...Outdoor sports...
...yet which are limned in a splendid canvas humdrum time to appreciate fully the manoeuvres of a whose events and personalities are presented with the detail gentleman adventurer like Jesse James...
...Especially were the Waldenses pro-biblicist ; they were, indeed, the "walking Bibles" of those days and were held in constant admiration on that account by the yokelry...
...They diffused the writings of Martin Luther in Spain...
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...For the most part sober and modern manner of Robert G. Ingersoll and Sinclair Lewis, even intelligent citizens, they were aroused to the peak of the iconoclasts challenged the Catholic God to protect the fury by the turn of events...
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...ALTMAN §QUA I'\ IE FIFTH AVENUE-THIRTY-FOURTH STREET MADISON AVENUE-THIRTY-FIFTH STREET BOOK S D Jewish Influence on Christian Reform Movements, by Louis Israel Newman...
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...He remembers what Van Cortlandt Park and 242nd Street Froude at times forgets-that the Irishmen and Spaniards of Elizabeth's day were human beings, that they had legitimate NEW YORK CITY hopes, aspirations, and ideals, as well as the Queen they opposed...
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...But he does not draw the reader's conclusions for him-he is content to offer him an admirable opportunity to do so for himself...
...De La Mare secures his effects...
...7-50R. NEWMAN'S work is one of the Columbia University Oriental Studies series, and needless to state, it is not "anti-Semitic...
...There was also a strong tendency among the heretics to reduce materially the margin of Old Testament prophecies which patently referred to the advent of Jesus Christ...
...endangers his record and-speaking in an off-hand fashion- In this second volume of Professor Cheyney's work, the nobody rivals the picturesque originality of his methods...
...Studies of English Poets, by J. W. Mackail...
...as a citizen he seems to have been prekingdom of heaven were identical...
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...There is too much pulling on the strings with Anne...
...Nothing could be more illuminating in its clear, docu- In the Fieldston-Riverdale Section mented exposition, for example, than the chapter, Essex in New College Buildings in a splendid setting Ireland...
...There was a concerted attempt to "bore from within" the Christian body...
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...They supported the Ghibbeline, or anti-papal, party in Italy...
...He has a singular power of dealing with well-known facts in a light that makes them new, and of handling minor and half-forgotten classics in a way that revives in one's mind the excitement we know they caused on their first appearance...
...Jews encouraged the Cathari, although the theology of the latter was anti-Jewish...
...For all its honesty of purpose, its hints of real promise, Triumph, by John Wiley, is dull reading...
...latent in civilization...
...Finally, there was carried on not only a hidden sapping of the Christian foundations but an active work of proselyting in many countries of Europe...
...son, has ransacked memoranda bearing on the Jameses with the fall of the Earl of Essex...
...called "Disciples of Christ," followers of Mr...
...No poetic fancy or "paper-backed" color great funeral processional which seemed to carry to the tomb here, if you please, where there is an author who respects the the splendor and romance of an epoch together with the woman best traditions of scientific research and goes over the ground who gave it her name, are the more picturesque and movewith a very sceptical comb...
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...lesser-known tragedy of the second Spanish Armada, the Love, who is frankly a newspaper man and not a literary per- Armada of 1596...
Vol. 4 • September 1926 • No. 18
