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September i S, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL ...
...but always one must bear in mind that this northern, or It is only when he sees life as something joyous and worthMahayana, branch of the faith is a radical departure from while in itself, that he becomes a Christian...
...In going over the witnessed, told in the simple, vivid style of one who was edu- events of his long, active life, he takes us into the secrets of cated, not in schools, but by life on the open road...
...In his pages we find the social and indomitable pluck, won hs way everywhere before he history of the years 1833-1905, and all the changes they have decided that the time had come to rest...
...of lavishness so felicitously implied by the title, and this truly The boy's earliest memories were of rough and lawless times, enormous task has been here carried out with so well-tempered and often of great poverty and hardship...
...And so on...
...ordered and proportioned, accounting perhaps for that curious New York: The Macmillan Company...
...and as many for Hamlet...
...than it, every month and week...
...For his part, the Anglican Bishop of Manhas one) of a watchful owl...
...but that its universal qualities true to its generic elements...
...of the dangers, joys, and sorrows gaudy pictures, and having six peep-holes fitted with fairly of a life spent "i' the common show-place, where they exercise...
...One is A poem which is the concluding trick in Mr...
...beyond his meriting...
...He feels that the graph two years ago...
...Reischauer to the program for world peace...
...The historical sequence ready to believe that show-folk were little better than criminals, is continued down to communistic Russia and George Gerand even to regard them as in league with the devil...
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...The hero of Before The Dawn, a realistic novel, is the betLater on, however, we are informed that "Shinto was vir- ter understood in the light of these two studies...
...the perfect balance, the absence of confusion, of subtlety, light and shade...
...Guatama...
...Part illegitimate form, there has been a veritable plethora of guides of every year was spent in a caravan, traveling from fair to fair and Perfect Wagnerites...
...The story, as it unfolds, faith but was fostered by Buddhist leaders...
...He could recall fierce fights, and the meting out ous a recommendation, it should be acknowledged forthwith of "showman's law" to the brutal ringleaders of an attack on that this tome of four hundred and forty-one finely printed their property at Lansdown Fair...
...scientious British student, of what are the goals and agencies ROBERT INNES CENTER...
...Foot-youth"--and all of you...
...Sort of crackle...
...Sprinkled as it is with quotations from Carlyle We have no means of knowing exactly what "poetry" lay and a hundred other people, it evidences the human sources in the gloomy mind of Dean Inge when he penned this para- from which the author derives his opinions...
...He may even waste a few moments tryNone of the people in this book are convincing, this being ing to recapture that first rapture which the sight of words especially true of Al Wells...
...Takes a speedy bus for a cat . . . Fack is though, one night I did The Equipment of the Social Worker, by Elizabeth get a yowl...
...Each in turn tells Alice of its history and Chaplaincy, Newman Club capabilities, and, with charming candor, of its very important or Catholic College position in the present-day orchestra...
...author, Toyohiko Kagawa, a graduate of the Princeton TheoIt is not within the scope of this work so much to subject logical Seminary and a resident of Kobe, has had, according to Buddhism to criticism as to give the reader a far idea of its the preface, experiences similar to those narrated...
...Too bad those two second-handed Parisians, JOUInt t. +itIact'5 George Antheil of Trenton, and Ezra Pound, had not finished Nereid (238th St...
...She realizes fully the importance of salvaging a very unpleasant child, and `free verse' which can be human waste, and she makes the case for trained workers in an distinguished from sloppy prose, because it is cut up into impressive and often brilliant fashion...
...Eiichi is a real person, more so, one fancies, than is the Christian picture to orientals...
...The well-known "PEDIFORME...
...Not once does this unemancipated ancestors...
...mention other thought and life currents which have been pour- The book is a mixture of the sublime and naive-a coming into this land from all parts of the world during the last bination one is tempted to call characteristically Japanese...
...Correct in looks and form The Golden Dancer, by Cyril Hume...
...Hume, in some portions of The Riddle of Society, by Charles Platt...
...Personal Religion and the Life of Fellowship, by William " . I mean," the traveler explained, "would tor-toyses Temple, Bishop of Manchester...
...other invalids, and received the magnificent pension of Sanger's story has been almost unobtainable for some years, L1o a year from his grateful country...
...Reischauer teaches...
...2.50...
...Nor will older readers be he had learned from two fellow-sailors, and here he bought able to resist its vivid chronicle of struggle and achievement...
...The chapter devoted to education and training in the United States is far from complete, is 5, by E. E. Cummings...
...experience in building up a great traveling circus and menagerie, Nevertheless, this simple, kindly man, with his ingenuity and a European reputation...
...and Murdock Aves...
...He preferred being a showman to keeping by an obligation to pursue a path of relentless duty...
...not to one-god-centric pantheism...
...It is a confusing picture for occidental eyes...
...Anyway, there are too many sodas in this book for Miss Macadam's volume is largely a compilation, by a conconsummation even in this hot weather...
...Martens occasionally essays a pithy critical estimate, in ence, and music...
...and fitted up a small peep-show, with "some movable and very of other days and customs...
...discussed in the opening chapter, The Orient-despite the fact In George Sanger's youth, the country people were always that both are creations of this century...
...Kishio Satomi, race-proud York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...Walter Pach, on his manual toward the elimination of the abnormal, will be the march on the Newest Art, has told us that in all fairness, criticism of science...
...of the wood-wind family...
...Before the Dawn, by Toyohiko Kagawa...
...One could find the germ of this plot in 452 THE COMMONWEAL September 15, 1926 thousands of novels of the Down East type...
...At the conclusion of the concert, she is roused from her reveries by her THE AMERICA PRESS mother, to perceive that she has been attending a sort of concert 4849 Grand Central Terminal, New York, N. Y. within a concert...
...and so are those with whom he comes in contact-students, There are twelve sects, it appears, and as this number is ad- derelicts, Geisha girls, his sister, his father and step-mother...
...But it re- it acquaints us with a life spiritually akin to our own...
...Gave us the rule A scientific shoe renews On orthopedic art...
...the percussion instruments...
...His George Sanger came of Wiltshire yeoman stock...
...It gives me the heebies though, to get a tor-toyse...
...the riddle of the universe...
...New a feeling of the Japanese soul...
...For, though it is following: a fine sonnet, slightly mannered and intricate, it is safe to say "Woodchuck," said the truck-driver, without moving his that our literary and near-literary reviews accept and reject smiling lips . . . "Oftentimes I get 'em with the bus...
...In the shwin's "One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street...
...about the battle of Trafalgar while the public gazed at scenes of the fight in his little show...
...Home economics department...
...at once...
...An original idea but hardly, in chester appends to a lucid presentation of the meaning of Christhis case, handled with anything but studied crudity...
...0. Address Convent Status,,) While the purpose of this book is to present a summarized A Catholic college for women, registered by the New York State Uuiversity, and the New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Boards of Eduexposition of the "book of the opera" and its outstanding tunes, cation...
...Martens employs the unconventional process of national colliers pouring back in panic and disorder from the town, classification with regard to the locality of the action rather where they had been routed in their attack on the old coaching- than of the composer...
...i copy will he sent FREE, on request for book K. an ex-factory hand who establishes a soda-fountain that flourishes beyond belief...
...morning sure lyHer eye s exactly sit,ata little roundtable In some passages, Mr...
...Satomi is not to be interpreted as a reactionary...
...INSTITUTE OF HOLY ANGELS, Fort Lee, N. J. As "the tale's the thing" in opera, a swift synopsis of the HIGH SCHOOL libretto has been provided in each instance, along with mention Registered by the University of the State of New York and by the New Jersey State Board of Education...
...would have had a powerful rival, for Sanger lived in a bizarre how the "Pig-faced Lady," and the much-admired "White world of freaks and mummers, and he never lacked the humor Elephant" were produced ; how he secured buck-jumping horses, to observe it, nor did he lack the humanity to share all its Ojibbewav Indians, and the "faked" sensation of a pack of interests...
...It was the England a style that any reviewer's impertinence in putting the author of Cobbett's Rural Rides, or of Crabbe's studies-rather than "on the carpet" would be thrown into painful relief by Mr...
...strong lenses...
...the idyllic scenes of Miss Mitford's village that he saw in Martens's very generosity...
...Discovery of Japanese Idealism is incoherent, badly written, and a sore trial upon the reader's patience...
...This bus is too slow for cats," said the truck-driver...
...Alice next visits Panoplis, where she profitably enjoys her time with the members By WILFRID PARSONS, S.J...
...Not On this occasion he met a friend of his childhood ; soon that there was need of one: for, since the advent of Wagner after, she became his wife and "the dearest and kindest of and the pivotal position in music he secured for a time to this mothers" to ten children of whom George was the sixth...
...Soon she finds herself in the village of Fiddladelphia, "the capital of Orches- I tralia," where lives the string family: violins, violas, 'cellos, and bass viols...
...fifty or sixty years...
...H. Doran Corn pan y. $2.00...
...His father, "traveling establishment" visited almost every European counJames Sanger, had been seized by a press-gang while on a try, and brought him into the most varied society...
...He would revive and keep before his countrymen an ancient T HESE three books give us, from different aspects, ac- idealism, both because it is gracious and offers a contribution counts of the religious condition of Japan...
...New York: George Your feet should be well shod in shoes Please specify-be sure you do!Correct, corrective, too...
...and, before attending a concert in Fiddladelphia, she goes to Brassydale, home of the brass in- The editor of AMERICA speaks plainly and arreststruments, who later take her to inspect Orchestralia's artillery ingly on a vital question...
...New York: Henry Holt and Company...
...Those inter$2.50 ested in the subject will find Miss Macadam a stimulant as `~~ HEY produce pictures which suggest the handiwork of well as a guide...
...It terms mediaeval tyranny in stops and capital letters, and prints his itself "a contribution to the understanding of those who do verses without then...
...And, lest this appear too ambiguthose days...
...worsted stockings and low-buckled shoes-a costume he never varied till the day of his death-the tall, handsome, well-set- Alice in Orchestralia, by Ernest La Prade...
...Thus, the Russian Stravinsky's Le house by a party of twenty-four soldiers who were stationed Rossignol, and the Austrian Richard Strauss's Salome, are inside...
...and Company...
...Eiichi Niimi tually incorporated into Buddhism about a thousand years is an earnest young student at Meiji Gakuin, the institution ago," and that Confucianism never existed as an independent at which Dr...
...The author reversed bracket looking for its mate, and of majuscules dedoes not even do without the eternally seduced young maiden posed from their accustomed dignity and strap-hanging in a who refuses to divulge the name of the father of her child...
...It is tremendously in earnest, and ture, then all the literary critics had better resign their jobs it addresses itself to the average man without breaking its back...
...in the churchyard, which now forms what is the Haymarket, IT is fitting that the most industrious pen of music-journalBristol...
...For instance, there are a baker's dozen operas associated with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...
...which direction his risible sense of humor does him excellent service-especially in the several pages dealing with post-war operas, for he leaves his reader in no doubt of the incessant monotony of les jeunes' musical commentaries on the monotony of life...
...table between them...
...Scenes that he does not dare allow any human eye BOOKS dealing with the problem of social salvage increase to see he gives us through the eyes and mind (I doubt if it in number...
...He acknowledges no sectarian affiliations, and is New York University under the Charles F. Deems founda- free to criticize Buddhism as well as Christianity...
...The note of optimism implied is refreshing, even of it should be left to the generation whose visual perceptions when it fails to convince...
...But in heard of our coming and had made special prayer in the kirk doing this, he unconsciously revealed far more than his own that rain might spoil our show if we ventured to open it...
...tian belief a few brave chapters concerned with practical religIf pages of soda-fountain advertisements and sentences com- ious and moral problems...
...New York: But Mr...
...E. E. Cummings student, and that toward the development of this, rather than is so eminent an exponent...
...wild wolves which raised a question in Parliament...
...of the East, first given to Nippon by Saint Francis Xavier, The matter, one takes it, is largely autobiographical, since the in 1542...
...but the information it supplies will prove useful...
...should mar a book which gives expression to much that is the Cummings's technique...
...In his white smock-frock, beaver hat, knee-breeches, with A Thousand and One Nights of Opera, by Frederick H. _11artens...
...This little volume, as novel as it is comely, is designed to instruct the rising generation in the mechanical and emotional functions of Select Boarding and Day School for Boys the modern symphony orchestra, and it discharges its pretty task with true grace and occasional whimsy...
...The author, Ernest La Prade, is a member of the stringsection of Walter Dam.osch's New York Symphony Orchestra, whose programs he has admirably annotated for many years...
...lie is driven out of the village by- the good PEDIFORME SHOE CO...
...Tor-toyses H. L. S. too...
...their works last year, when this book evidently went to press...
...But knowledge is hardly less valuable because divined in a dream...
...and intensely national, presents those traditions and sentiments known ere Buddhism crossed the Korean channel...
...and giving to the In some villages we were informed that the minister had world the story of a strange and adventurous life...
...Platt's sprightly uneven lengths...
...The pageant September i S, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 451 presents an attractive complexion for the layman, while it does not obviously affect the hook's value to the scribe...
...Intensive courses open to students preparing for the teaching profession...
...Don Quixote has defeated College of Saint Elizabeth seven composers...
...Hume achieves the same ex- "ofpiecesofof sunligh tof fa 1 1 in gof throughof treesOf...
...ciate, as we cannot, the exquisite significance of a lonely and T. C...
...of modern social welfare work...
...Budout and new ones come into existence...
...New York: D. Appleton and Company...
...He literally sells all, and goes to a metaphysical exercise forbidden to the faithful follower of live among the poor...
...But it will serve as a pretty good esti- "normal" in human nature is what should always engross the mate of the new macaronism of which Mr...
...philosophy...
...Perhaps a generation is on its way which, in dash-anent the subject of early Christian charity, for instance another field, will understand the true inwardness of Mr...
...Hume is a veritable Grilles de Rais, "among otherlittle roundtables Her,eyes count slow(ly the only difference being that the latter delighted in destroy- "obstre poroustimidi ties surElyfl ) oat iNg,the ing helpless babies, while Mr...
...One of them finds something suggestive of and well-informed treatise is relatively ambitious...
...James Sanger would "patter" most effectively MURIEL KENT...
...New York: up young fellow attracted much attention in the fair then held Doubleday, Page and Company...
...Also, that it has introduced the doctrine of salva- Before The Dawn breaks down barriers and shatters the tion by grace of another, and ritualistically is ornate with pattern of those two figures squat beside the tea-table...
...It rather gives the game of the truck-driver...
...perience vicariously, by destroying helpless animals...
...September i S, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 449 and gratitude held as a higher virtue than love, "whose conBOOK S dition is favoritism...
...He confesses how the "Learned Sanger's talents had taken the direction of fiction, Dickens Pig" was trained, and the "Tame Oyster who smoked a Pipe...
...fifties, when he took his own panorama (with views of the Messrs...
...The future religion "Here is the meeting place of four great religions, viz.: must unite monotheism and pantheism, and thus establish a Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Christianity...
...His research proved in Wartime's school if you would wear the proper sho The foot's important part...
...For bells, incense, and wreaths for the god's shrine...
...but not at times-but always from the heart...
...New York: E. P. the book, makes deliberate use of obscenity to obtain certain Dutton and Company...
...They sort of pop when you get one...
...The contending tells of his days there and at home, but chiefly of his work forces then are sifted down to two-Buddhism, and that Star in the slums of Kobe following his conversion to Christianity...
...Bronx, New York City It was a happy fancy that inspired the conception and Conducted by MARIST BROTHERS guided the realization of Alice in Orchestralia...
...Cummings's regaled for nearly forty pages with the unnecessary conversaslim cabinet of prestidigitations does more than let us breathe tion of the hero careening around the country with a depraved once before the lid is closed...
...This unconceived critic may appre- wisely gathered fruit of experience...
...but it communicates Seventy Years a Showman, by "Lord" George Sanger...
...He lived holiday in London, at the age of eighteen ; and after serving to see Abraham Lincoln ; to welcome "Dizzy" (on his way on the Agincourt and Pompey, he was transferred to the back from concluding the Berlin Treaty in 1878) at Verviers Victory, fought in the battle of Trafalgar, and was severely station with a display of flags and the national anthem played wounded...
...folk who believe in Puritanical reform, and he finally wins 36 West 36th Street 322 Livingston Street New York Brooklyn, N. Y. the girl that he loves...
...A conventional pattern is this-but well Studies in Japanese Buddhism, by August Karl Reischauer...
...There are Buddhists dhist and Christian hear each other's points of view...
...others have different tricks, all equally wrong," and attempts to outline a complete redemptive social absurd...
...Of course, it has not been necessary to out- Special advantages in Music and Art...
...Conversation that runs to the level of the whole "refracted" school of poetry away...
...said the traveler...
...The author beholds in Japan a country embarrassed "In Buddhist pantheism, the conception of God is vast but with "isms," and likens it to a bewildered child listening to disunited...
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...New York: Longmans, Green ever screech out any if you hit one...
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...Extensive Campus, field hockey, basket-ball, tennis, etc...
...Like a cat might...
...LANDON M. ROBINsoN...
...lie is rook c treatment...
...and fascinating symmetry which prevails in Japanese art and decoration-the two figures squat upon the floor, with a teaDiscovery of Japanese Idealism, by Kishio Satomi...
...HIGH SCHOOL, GRAMMAR, PRIMARY Alice occupies a box with her mother at a symphony concert, Opens in September, 1926 where she is lulled into dreaminess and "awakes" to find herWrite for Prospectus self skipping through a long brass tunnel-the brass coils of the tuba, the instrument which "reared its enormous funnelshaped mouth almost underneath Alice's seat...
...be made by 30,000 Chartist miners, on the Whitsuntide fair In the arrangement of this bewildering mass of material, day...
...are the more striking...
...When Mr...
...he asks...
...Despite some interesting solecisms, posed of one swear-word after another, constitute good litera- the book deserves reading...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...but this reprint will make an enthralling commentary for chilAt Bristol fair, he first practised the conjuring tricks which dren on nineteenth-century affairs...
...several dozens, not one whit worse and not one whit better "No...
...god, then practically there is no God...
...Macadam...
...One is inclined to think Al Wells had success already far "in the, exquisite...
...The showman-instinct was equally strong this fixed principle radiate filial devotion, honor among friends,in George Borrow-with himself as his chief exhibit-and, 450 THE COMMONWEAL September 15, 1926 indeed, it is no rare tendency in human nature or in literature...
...of its principal arias, and its overture, entr'actes, and incidental Secretarial Department, Elementary School dances, if any...
...George H. Doran Company...
...teachings, and to describe the different sects which exist side It is a very detailed and sincere account, crude and illogical by side...
...tion...
...Ile will be in possession of a syntax straw man come to life, and one feels that he is an absolute which can make something out of the following besides just nonentity...
...Good "Uncle Sam" WALTER V. ANDERSON...
...i.oo...
...with an improved peep-show and a rudimentary sort of round- But A Thousand and One Nights of Opera has that quality about, contrived by James Sanger...
...Patriotism for the subject, is a Protestant minister and professor of ethics in the mission but righteousness for the state, is the simple code which in college of Meiji Gakuin, in the city of Tokio, and the volume his regard would go a great way toward abolishing wars of under review consists of a course of lectures delivered at aggression...
...Hume tries to create some sympathy plain tommyrot: for him by his sudden fall from prosperity, he fails completely...
...pages sets a record for condensation and amplitude-not a thouThe showman's family were at Newport, Monmouthshire, sand and one, but two thousand and four-by actual count of when warning reached them of the great demonstration to the index of operas...
...One regrets that occasional balderit is training...
...This is not to say that the book "Can it [Buddhism] lay hold on God, the Heavenly lacks local color and that the reader does not often pause to Father...
...No, it cannot, and at the same time remain exclaim, "how very Japanese...
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...Oftentimes," the truck-driver repeated firmly...
...Converted to the southern, or main trunk-that it has spread its branches evangelicalism, he bends it to his soul's need and exalts it to far, looked upward and dared speculate as to the hereafter- a plane of lofty asceticism...
...by the circus band ; and to parade his show in the courtyard of "On the return of the fleet, he was paid off at Deal with Windsor Castle before the Queen in 1899...
...2.50...
...If George his most impressive effects...
...Reischauer points out the people love and suffer, meet, or evade problems in a manner poor logic of those progressive thinkers who, looking forward 'twere gratuitous to call oriental ; and Eiichi might be the to a glorious future for their country, would shed this pessi- thoughtful young man of any race or clime who seeks to solve mism and yet remain good Buddhists...
...ism should give to the world its latest "opera guide...
...is Buddhist by tradition, and given to melancholy and despair...
...With this knowledge, the concert opens up innumerable Price Five Cents facets of interest and offers two-fold enjoyment...
...Eiichi who are modernists, and Buddhists who are fundamentalists...
...New York: Boni and Liveright...
...If everything be a god, and if every man be a various voices and uncertain about which one to follow...
...i.oo...
...These mains pessimistic at heart, and Dr...
...Dent have lately reprinted "Lord" George Sanger's Duke of Wellington's funeral and of the Ross Arctic expediSeventy Years a Showman (first published in 1910) in which tion) and conjuring show to Scotland for the first time, "conhe aimed simply at recalling "the jingle of bells . . . the juring was looked upon as a very wicked business indeed . . . blare of music, and the sound of drums...
...And so on, ad infinitum...
...line 2,000 plots, as many of the operas are built around similar stories, with a revamped libretto...
...He seems to be a vain, selfish in print, usually left to dirty-minded little boys, once gave his creature who is at heart a perfect fool...
...As the caravans were in flight on the road, they saw the Mr...
...Bachelor degree in arts, sciMr...
...JOHN STEUART ERSKINE once said of his kinsman, It is a religion of the state which he extols, loyalty to a Boswell, that he "had genius, but wanted ballast to counsupreme sovereign who is inextricably bound with his subjects teract his whim...
...Just !VJ-IICH style to specify may be de E VEN in the old-fashioned, hackneyed novels where the Tided upon after a perusal of our catalog which also contains much authoritative inheroes rise to easy fame, there is no more comet-like f, rnwtion regarding foot-illa arid their carexample of one than Al Wells, the hero of this tale...
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Vol. 4 • September 1926 • No. 19
