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September 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 47 failed to ring true to common experience....
...With its curiosity, its conanimistic, metaphysical dualism which redounds to psychological cern to capture passing impressions and moods, its desire to monism in so far as mental functions are referred to the organ- be modern, to accept as material the artificiality of modern ism as a unitary sentient principle...
...The Gothic chasuble seems to be considitive materials and colors which were in use in Old Testament ered solely as the property of the Anglican Church, whereas it, times...
...Look around you and, Opens in September, 1926 courageously, make an answer...
...As a fact, scholasticism presents an important sense, aloof from it...
...He has done his work, t 6) A Year oun4 Coat the one work at which he has labored under many disguises, in a sense too well, has made his world too exclusively of things The camel hair polo coat is recognized that have an oppressively personal significance, that remind everywhere as the necessary albseason him too persistently of his identity...
...But there are a great many modern Perhaps Mr...
...JULIA DUNCAN BUCHANAN is an expert on the teaching and theories ment of its parts in space and time, but not in its substance...
...escaping slowly from the dark ages which followed the EVEN the new Italy is very old, a creature of abiding charm...
...puzzling subject has to offer, it nevertheless must be considered Symons's own books...
...Very few have been of lasting value...
...There is a clearTrinity, and the lamb, the grapes and the wheat of the Sac- ness and precision about this part of the book which reminds raments...
...MUSIC--Conservatory Methods is Piano, Violin and Vocal Days of the Brunswick and Fifth Avenue Hotels, Eden ART-Special Advantages...
...But ing in their tracks...
...It was dpply to MOTHER SUPERIOR the golden age of Greenwich Village...
...Dion Boucicault interpreted Irish life in the hunting field, and the sorrows and humors of the bog in The Shaughran...
...And then the incubus of him all the way from Messina to Lipari...
...Proud standards, and when it has no standard other than opposition...
...LURTON BLASSINGAME is a critic of books and events for the magazines.This theory, the author avers, "gives little added illumination 476 THE COMMONWEAL September 22, 1926 to our knowledge of nature...
...One by one we are invited to go Mr...
...New with all the rest of the natural world...
...it is that world we have ultimately to judge...
...Is intellect also to be referred to a capture passing impressions and moods" belongs to the philosuniversal "psychic stuffiness...
...LURTON BLASSINGAME...
...In order to many letters worth (as any press agent would know) many avoid either extreme, attempts at compromise were made in thousands of dollars in a breach of promise suit...
...purple the imperial, symbol of all the pomp and vanity and a time for austerity, a use for silks and gold, and a use of this world...
...have been called upon to gather together so many facts, cor- But it is when the authors pass on to the elaboration of the related and orderly...
...One may possibly the material and the methods of each admit life equally...
...It puts an end to the York: The Adelphi Company...
...Josipg LEwis FRENCH, poet and anthologist, is the author of Christ which would also be in conformity with the principle of conin Art GRACE HAZARD CONELING is associate professor of English in Smith tinuity and, moreover, explain the origin of minds in a nonCollege and the author of Wilderness Songs, and Afternoons in April...
...Golding at Palermo are not on everybody's the improvement in health work-and which should have been palette...
...an Elizabethan dramatist or Ibsen : he exposes himself to each with Gentlemen's Clothing and Furnishings the same receptivity, deals with each with the same scrupulous care...
...But it is entirely can do...
...he happens to realize where guitars are most tender...
...It is quality work without leaving the South: fiction, realistic and genuinely a poet's book, written in that spotlighted, mock- romantic, has been published...
...Di Cesnola displays his Rosemont College at Rosemont, Pa., St...
...It is certain that the student of symbolism finds color of the day, what is going on...
...He knows ever so much, even the works of Samuel included...
...but frankly...
...Symons to one, not as a critic who has written poetry, or a poet who has written criticism, but as a writer who has created a complete world through his poetry and his criticism...
...Sicilian Noon, by Louis Golding...
...Symons, Mr...
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...we are living specialized moments...
...Being a teacher of English, he greatness, which has been burdened with every shame and naturally is interested in the broadening of the colleges, several sorrow that can afflict mankind, is yet rising once more into of which are beginning to rank with the better-class institustrength which will surely dismay her slanderers and shame tions in other sections...
...but it might equally well be called Religion in Needle- Many well-dressed men wear their work, or indeed in art itself, for it opens up a richer field than pocket flaps on the inside...
...Ofily such a world in detail serves to explain the conof pure theatrical art...
...He is delighted with the results Clarence those who seek to work her ruin...
...content to look out of a window...
...These chapters are very fully illustrated, not only with sketches and diagrams, but with pictures which trace the development of vestment conventions in the Roman Catholic My New York, by Mabel Osgood Wright...
...Then modern America seems, or rather ACADEMY FOR GIRLS KINGSTON, N. Y. seemed, to begin...
...From the point of view of this theory it is the soul that it has to be said that if that brief epoch that we call the differentiates organisms from non-organisms, a difference too 'nineties was not important to Mr...
...until we come to the Star, which shone over there are the limitations and possibilities of one's medium to Bethlehem on the night which brought the new dispensation, be considered...
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...We walk sadly through the old streets and squares, past the Jefferson Market Court-House and Engine- amount &t...
...it can unpack the heart almost as completely as a another matter to explain consciousness in potentia by the sequence of sonnets...
...480 THE COMMONWEAL September 22, 1926 Naples Past and Present, by Arthur H. Norway...
...The distinction is well made, and especially since in that sense it denotes nothing but the organ- it shows that a fine critical intelligence has gone to the making ism...
...and vestments, and the special requirements of the Anglican MARTHA GENUNG STEARNS...
...Newspapers and voters bracket things more unlike each other...
...Animism does not necessarily mean work after it was at an end, and that he always stood, in an psychological dualism...
...period of reconstruction...
...live in society," a modern French mystic has said, and nothing And the embroiderer has but to open the Bible to see a blaze is more inevitable than that its outward forms should be perof jeweled color spring from the page-gold and blue and fected and safeguarded and beautified...
...Church...
...his former fiancee, the said earl tries to postpone the seemingly Recently there has been a recrudescence of idealism of a inevitable revelation...
...So we have, definitely purple and scarlet, those glorious colors which now, as then, controlled by rubrics, the use of particular materials and colors are the expression of faith : the gold of the Epiphany's offered in the textile furnishings of the altar...
...But the book as it stands is the most comprehensive Butler...
...it is Knopf...
...CARL CRANSEN is a Scandinavian critic residing in the United States...
...Moreover, it would seem inspiring of critics and of thinkers upon aesthetic problems, to be overworking the principle of continuity to invoke it here has been fortunate in having a writer so thoughtful and so while there is not a speck of evidence to show continuity be- well-equipped, make a summing-up of his work...
...turtle style which, for want of a better adjective, is usually articles and stories for several literary magazines of a high dubbed "personal...
...Three Studios Open to Musee, Maillards, Madison Square Theatre, Chickering Hall Visitors at All Times...
...This is quite the title connotes...
...but there is another sense in which the cutting and making of vestments, we find it to be written from study of embroidery visualizes the Bible pictures for us, and the Anglican point of view, which may be responsible for cerit is that today, while we in the western hemisphere are sur- tain small inaccuracies on the side of what is referred to rounded by the products of modern machinery and whims of throughout as the "Roman Church...
...on his shoes again and absently place the red slippers in the Following the general tendencies of behaviorism, Professor closet...
...Hence the large showing of old founder names in these pages: the Chaplaincy, Newman Club prominent pew-holders and vestrymen from whose class old New Yorkers are so largely recruited...
...during the celebration of the Mass...
...Christina Rossetti or Baudelaire...
...Sometimes his humor the race question...
...A stitch is such an infinitesimal thing, and yet and to the Cross, whose special form is not material only, but "without stitches, there could be no art of embroidery...
...Symons was radical to mark a single step in an alleged process of continuity...
...It can do, in his eventual that consciousness can be nothing but a function of the organ- command of it, much that descriptive and meditative poetry ism, governed by the processes mentioned...
...Wakefield's Drake presents in this volume a theory of the ultimate nature inventiveness is responsible for much of the body of the farce, of mind and matter, in which he asserts that our knowledge largely because, with the exception of Miss Marion Coakley composing the physical sciences is literally true of an existing as the movie star, the other characters are so often left stand- world, and that minds have an equally objective reality...
...even some of the same designs have been preserved with of course, originated in the Catholic Church and is coining to extraordinary fidelity...
...But it does assert our kinship Arthur Symons: A Critical Study, by T. Earle Welby...
...The difference would be nil...
...Yet, awareness is not a property of ]MM RTHA GENUNG STEARNS is an occasional contributor to The Commonweal...
...New York: Church for many centuries, from sources such as ancient The Macmillan Company...
...a very valuable and important contribution to mental philos- Our biographer has done a real service to the reputation of ophy...
...tide of money, the city strode on to the formation of the banker and director class: the railroad king and foreign specu- The editor of AMERICA speaks plainly and arrestlator begin to loom large on the scene : the new class of immi- ingly on a vital question...
...Symons is to be highly considered...
...She is s contributor, in English, to the leading British and American penodicals...
...Its subject matter was too limited and its handling fell far short of its idea...
...New York: The Advancing South, by Edwin Mims...
...The author identifies mental with cerebral states...
...Flavin has somersaulted into a comedy that ought to Mind and Its Place in Nature, by Durant Drake...
...Symons writes is the prose of It is difficult, however, to agree with the distingushed author the confessional, an intimate, scrupulous, patient, hushed prose, as regards the origin of consciousness...
...But one gathers the impression that Mr...
...Patchen Place was i already the address of theatrical people visited by the great A SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Booth...
...MARJORIE CONE is a short-story writer for current periodicals...
...Since 1919 a number of capable authors have produced artistic, time and that others ought to share in the fun...
...and red, the for the purest and whitest linen...
...In our time, this lack of regard is partly due to consciousness to the "psychic stuffness" of matter does away a notion that it is poetry that "dates," that it belongs to the with the need for assuming the existence of a soul...
...Norway is one of the best of English travelers...
...be increasingly used again therein...
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...likewise a three-act play that has about York: The Macmillan Company...
...Since "mental functions" are merely an aspect of organic of this study of Arthur Symons's work...
...Southerners have revoabout volcanic coasts, antique ruins, mediaeval memorials, gaunt lutionized the iron and turpentine industry, and Mr...
...crowded all the pastures...
...The Ku Klux Klan still exists, cause of new volumes, some of which, at least, are of real value and politicians without principles still wrap themselves in the to the prospective voyager or to him whose journeys are all sullied but mass-inflaming mantle of white supremacy and too undertaken on the way home...
...However, he has that the ground covered is freshly seen...
...Golding's person-a kind of annunciatory we like it or not, woman is taking her place in business in message of "here comes a smart young artist" which precedes the South as well as in the East...
...certainly important to it...
...He knows the classics and the writer, especially when he discusses the Protestant theoBoccaccio...
...ubacel'o House, across Jackson Square and Mulry Square...
...Religion is the ensemble his subject upon every hand, and moves through a secret world of all our duties toward God and all the aids which help us to within a world where everything has a special meaning for him...
...We are carried from one country and work, the needled decoration, that they show themselves to be, age to another in the survey...
...With the social sub- or Catholic College sidence of the preacher and his following beneath the rising By WILFRID PARSONS, S.J...
...Frideswide's at Cypriote antiquities...
...actual existence in space outside the knower...
...Wright gives us the proper note of Washington Park and gold...
...in fact, mild speculation as to the "English form of the pallium" which it would seem that a lifetime of research and enthusiasm must "in actual practice in England" is not worn...
...wears any time of year-any kind of Needlework in Religion, by M. Symonds and L. Preece...
...While we leagues, and that is in the hinting at supernatural forces...
...He insists, however, "The two co-exist, and that they do so in harmony, cooperating to make his imaginative world, is his distinction...
...New York...
...still back the Democratic party through all the changes in its Mr...
...tine Nilsson, and Campanini : choral singing and philharmonic Accredited Boarding and Day School for Girls concerts were developing slowly, in the choirs of Georza of Conducted by the Sisters of Notre Dame the Jesuit Church in West Sixteenth Street and the chancel ACADEMIC COURSE-Prepares for College or Normal of Trinity...
...blue, the color of high heaven...
...sometimes exquisite prose...
...CHICAGO, ILL...
...as, for instance concernfashion, the women of Palestine and Syria and Anatolia and ing birettas, and the zucchetta, which is simply called "a the Greek islands are still using the same stitches and prim- round skull cap...
...Doubleday, Page and Company...
...ALTMAN SQUA E In any subject it is necessary to begin at the beginning, crude FIFTH AVENUE-THIRTY-FOURTH STREET and rough though it may be, and as we watch its gradual de- MADISON AVENUE-THIRTY-FIFTH STREET velopment into something sure and true and fine, we realize that needle-decoration may claim to be the oldest of the arts, 478 THE COMMONWEAL September 22, 1926 or at least the one which has come down to us least changed how symbolic is every garment worn, every action performed, by the centuries...
...Earle Welby, I discover a dozen songs and lyrics by Mr...
...Symons has expressed more of himself in his criticism than in his poetry: "The critic is broader, is more nearly the whole man, than the poet in Mr...
...And we can trace, in the embroidered pall of the "in the homespun 'fifties, 'sixties, and 'seventies before the Orthodox usage, some of the stiff and conventional form of listing of society began or the sheep of the Golden Fleece had Byzantium which survives in a Russian Ikon...
...Its lucidity of thought, its fidelity to logic, and its ad- a writer whose work has given distinction to the literature of herence to scientific data put it in pleasant contrast with most our time...
...Twenty-third Street has lost its glory...
...are the means, the lines, by which a thought can be reproFrom those days down to our own, every Christian has duced on fabric...
...Indeed, ligion...
...If one gets the odd sensation of The South has a hard struggle ahead of it in every field, continually jogging up and down, it is true, on the other hand, and the author does not minimize the fact...
...Earle Welby quite easily shows us that the "psychic stuffiness" is purely hypothetical...
...Ursula of the Blessed Virgin eries, carry us down through the days of Abraham Lincoln On the Hudson and the Civil War...
...That is true...
...One may regret a certain conscious poetic standard...
...3.00...
...coveries at Dux...
...If we try to find a philosophy that It seems that rational life is ill-explained by a theory that would be common to such diverse writers as Oscar Wilde, leaves no room for a soul...
...The newspaper man has assumed an im- Boarders and Day Pupils portance little dreamt of before the great Rebellion...
...While the terms "physical" and "psychical" have different meanings, CONTRIBUTORS the difference is not necessarily one of substance or realm of WILLIAM L. RERNAN is a contributor to the current periodicals...
...It is a distinction : no other writer in English has made such a world...
...Many are the references to needlework When we reach the instructions and advice given for the to be found there...
...toward the less durable arts, Mr...
...The metaphysical prin- life, he was in sympathy...
...Here is something interestAs for Mr...
...But the organic-functional view of mind, which as expression that the inspirer of his critical study possesses: such is not original to the author, seems so far the only theory he himself might have written a sentence like this about some which adequately fits our data...
...psychic stuff, but depends upon its correlation and function...
...It is well enough to say that "intel- Dowson, and the Yeats of the Wind Amongst the Reeds, it ligence is an organization of the sensori-motor processes in would surely be the philosophy that Mr...
...other writer, "But what Mr...
...illuminated manuscripts in monastic libraries, episcopal seals M Y New York is a difficult book to review satisfactorily: and monumental brasses...
...New have been a farce...
...Quite question his use of the term "mind" in an entitative sense, obviously they do not...
...dramas written and produced by the Carolina Playmakers...
...We may therefore believe in its substantial nature as found in THE COMTESSE DR CouasoN, an English writer living in France, is the author, in French, of (~uatre Portraits de Femmes, and La Persecution introspection and say that the brain has a psychic character, des Catholiques en Angleterre...
...it goes back to the first prehistoric rock- correct...
...But he persuades me...
...For An English earl, married to an American wife, finds himself a long time animism was universally accepted in one form or in the same hotel with a movie star to whom he was formerly other until finally challenged by radical materialism, which in and unwisely engaged-unwisely in that he had written her turn was reacted against by idealistic monism...
...a time for magnificence treasure...
...The vision of Alcamo, reason to be hopeful...
...Golding, he simply went a-voyaging about Sicily...
...an interpreter of the arts, Mr...
...Unitarians from Boston, of minTo a non-Catholic, it may very likely have never been clear isterial connections, her family left her with recollections natSeptember 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 479 urally associated with the early church circles that were at the basis of the best society in those days...
...He would persuade one, too, that Mr...
...Above all, the book ought to impress on its readers the high Then follow some chapters on the churches: the Jewish and important place which needlework has held and still deChurch with all the richness of its ancient ritual, and the serves to hold among the arts, and to make a new generation Christian Church which borrowed and made its own so many of "women that are wise-hearted" bring their part of the willof the earlier forms...
...scratches, when men "looked with astonishment at the work of Entire contents copyrighted, 1926, by B. Altman & Co their hands," and discovered that they had created something: back to the very art-principle itself, when forms were first used as symbols...
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...Flavin wrote in much of this business-such a realists, such as Bertrand Russell, Whitehead, Broad, and the delectable moment, for example, as when the earl removes his American "neo-realists" who have worked out more or less shoes, planning the comfort of bedroom slippers, only to put complete philosophical theories of mind...
...In his work, now as a poet and now as an interpreter of the arts, Mr...
...in accepting external reality and mental states, respectively, as the data of perceptual and introspective knowledge in so far On Mystery Plays as it is veridical, the author designates his theory as monistic L AST week, The Donovan Affair, the new mystery play realism in contradistinction to the pan-objectivism of other by Owen Davis, was reviewed in these columns...
...but he asseverates that they are growing less, Apparently-I am no judge-they leave out a vast amount that and after reading his book one must, perforce, agree with him...
...and finally to its present majestic proportions, stiff with jewels Mrs...
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...Symons's literary criticism...
...In one respect, in our reactions to it, and we believe this knowledge to be The Ghost Train surpasses The Donovan Affair by several veridical although we are unable to prove it so...
...Earle Welby shows that he had begun writing well and at the same time accept an organic-functional theory of before the period developed, that he did much of his finest mind and consciousness...
...Symons's poetry has never been as well thought of as The author also suggests that his reference to the origin of his criticism...
...Parkhurst thundered at municipal vices, there Bronx, New York City now stands a tall office building...
...In a natural or dark shade it is the world that Arthur Symons has made ! suited either' to sports wear or town PADRAIC COLUM...
...and Murdock Aves...
...We are shown the differences which have ing sacrifice and make it, like every true expression of art and grown up between eastern and western ritual and furnishings beauty, "holiness unto the Lord...
...One readily admits coming from the aesthetic conscience...
...It is these activities, "y...
...He has left out several forward steps for instance, is delightfully bright and new, and the colors one that have given color to the strugglc chief among which is sees with Mr...
...This is good, for in out of a scene, and whose virtues are so numerous that there generalizations and expressed opinions it is easy to disagree with is room to mention only a few...
...comfortable MANY of the best of the modern books we have on the Single-breasted Coats, $125.00 IVj subject of needlework have come out of England, where Double-breasted Coats, $135.00 this art has flourished since the days of the Bayeux Tapestry...
...The concern of the period "to explains consciousness...
...We are not taking part in be adequately explained by mechanistic processes of impulses life...
...The work of the Interracial Commission, is very happy, and then again it is merely humor...
...A hearty, simple world that knew what it wanted and got it: music ACADEMY OF OUR LADY was still in the hands of prima donnas and tenors, like Chris- Nth and Tkreop Streets, LONGWOOD...
...Life orately and justly representative of the nature of the surround- was to be regarded as a succession of moments, most of them ing world that they are able to steer the organism through its leaden, some of them golden ; the escape from life felt as the various dangers and predicaments...
...Symons, himself one of the most psychic nature of matter in general...
...strangely enough, and thanks to the more or less pragmatic nature in Freudian literature, while good sportsmanship of the movie star, with success...
...Being for theories of body-mind relations such as parallelism and peace at any price, and finding himself in the next room to epiphenomenalism...
...Speed the day l crete peculiarities of our perceptual experience...
...enough verse for a poetry magazine...
...weather-smart, informal, London: Sr Isaac Pitman and Sons...
...of music...
...grant like the Irish and the German, in spite of distinguished earlier representatives in politics, journalism, literature and the Price Fire Cents stage, begins to lift its head above the basement floor, to figure, at first in emotional scenes in the stableyard or the kitchen, THE AMERICA PRESS and then under the cloak of official toleration that survives in 4849 Grand Central Terminal, New York, N. Y. some of the older club corners even today...
...Behaviorism represents the extreme of this the "business" injected by the actors is at least on a par with movement, although it is too limited in scope to form a comthe playwright's lines in creating and sustaining the mood...
...His preference is for the so-called modernist in reand he can make even geological data relatively human...
...are also under the supervision of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus 44 Blackburn Road, Phone Summit 1804 Uncle Tom's Cabin, with or without ice and bloodhounds, was the thriller of youth and sentimental old age...
...Camel Hair Cats, $5.50 and one of the most carefully compiled and comprehensive in range is that recently published in London, by Miss Symonds and Miss Preece...
...tween organisms and inert matter...
...At the corNereid (238th St...
...But in spite of this, his book is excellent gossip and picture of existing conditons below the Mason and Dixon line...
...And after its explorer has revealed that world to us, he has this just thing to say of it: "As a world, it is open to the criticism that it is inhabitable for any length of time, by no one except its author...
...When the familiar obIt is said that every man looks at the world with the eyes of jection is raised by him against employing a tongue not underhis own trade-the cobbler sees life as a vast procession of stood by the people, the critic is probably not aware how inpassing feet, and the maker of books sees it reflected through the stantly a Catholic can see, from the priest's attitude, from the printed page...
...high-priced apartment houses smother the Players and Conducted by MARIST BROTHERS the National Arts Clubs in Gramercy Park where, perhaps at night still flicker the ghosts of Emma Thursby, Remenyi, Select Boarding and Day School for Boys and Edwin Booth ! The alleys, the places, the squares deserted by their old denizens, just as the woodlands are de- HIGH SCHOOL, GRAMMAR, PRIMARY nuded of their fauns and sylphs-and for what, for whom, 0 dear old New York brethren...
...Earle Welby has to overcome a bias when he would persuade one that as a poet Mr...
...He contributed to the Yellow Book, and, with consciousness, we would at the most exchange the "x" for a Aubrey Beardsley, he edited The Savoy...
...existence of a soul in the organism merely in order to explain Symons...
...mainly, that have marked him as belonging to the period...
...The point he makes is that he had a good, even an ing...
...Obviously, it will be ties, size, shape, position, motion, mass, etc., which science dea difficult play to write...
...Given a reGreece, where the crescent moon came down for Artemis to quirement or an impelling idea, and the need to express it, wear in her hair...
...September 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 47 failed to ring true to common experience...
...posed of psychic stuff...
...and it is also, I submit, a different note from that Farmer, whose circulation has grown to 450,000...
...That statement cannot leaden succession was through three activities that were thembe disputed, but it does not explain intellect any more than selves shadows of the divine creative activity-love, art in saying that consciousness is a function of a certain character creation, art in contemplation...
...struck by the none the less excellent Baedeker...
...It has, however, several distinct merits...
...Mims castles, withered harbors, and merry, sunny streets...
...Saint Augustine, to an edition of whose Confessions he prefixed one of the most acutely appreciative essays ever written on the subject, or Casanova, in whose archives he made important dis- ALTMAN CO...
...Norway were not so timid about giving way to his his illustrations, and as history this book is most valuable...
...We see, for instance, how the mitre there is so much in it, so much that we have known has developed from its earliest shape as a soft, low cap, to its ourselves from childhood, so many emotional stops and vagaries, first pointed shape in the twelfth century, very much resem- so many personal experiences and adventures concerned with bling the paper caps which children make for playing "soldiers," the old residences, the schools, restaurants, and theatres...
...Symons has only one peer and CARL CRANSEN...
...The Italian and Jew are not yet heard from...
...Mims has a knowledge broad enough to permit generaliover the ground with this expressive guide whose only fault is zations, but fortunately he has followed Walter Hines Page an occasional tendency to squeeze every possible drop of beauty in preferring the specific illustration...
...If we should assume the or even to have left much of a mark upon the poetry of Mr...
...and I do not doubt that many rather than party...
...Italy, relates the story of their rise to affluence with the gusto of that noble land which has been the scene of every kind of The American magazine...
...But it is impossible to question the authenticity of if Mr...
...The author admits all these facts sorrowfully write "to supply those things which the guide-books omit...
...The sentence is typical of H. Poe has accomplished with his paper, the Progressive the book...
...he is Walter Pater...
...But if well done it will be a work scribes...
...But how garment-cool in Summer, warm in much it has meant to many of us that we have had access to Winter...
...Naples, after he had looked at it cautiously, or come east where they can write realism without being studiously, appealed to him, and so it was only natural he should called traitors...
...Mr...
...in mathematics it 'nineties is too brief an episode in literary history to include would be expressed by an "x...
...The world and the arts of its nations are laid under one of the keen, swift needle itself, and which ought to make tribute to prove to us how universal has been the use of sym- the book a very useful and instructive one for every serious bolism in form and color, to express all the finest and highest embroiderer...
...It is amusing-in S INCE the days of Aristotle and Plato, mental philosophy numerous spots-without being vulgar...
...While it makes no has appeared in many different garbs, practical or poetical, attempt to be uplifting, it does not depend on suggestiveness realistic or mystical, formal and dignified, or ludicrous and nor flimsy attire nor beds nor vagrant instincts for its fun...
...of his own origin, he nevertheless cherishes a secret desire to Writers still paint the sentimental picture of the Old South, be an Italian...
...logians...
...GEORGE N. SHUSTER...
...And then he takes up southern literature, the new status of woman, and the Negro problem...
...One also is drawn into All these things are touched upon in this new book...
...On the stage budded the genius of Edwin Oxford and finishing schools in Paris, Rome and Freibourg, Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Lotta Crabtree, and Mary Anderson...
...Symons...
...I realists who hold all data of experience to possess, as such, should like to add a few words on mystery plays in general...
...I should say that almost any percent Americanism to disguise their own infinitesimal ability...
...One anticipates his judgment of the September 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 477 catholicity of Mr...
...Some may hold secondary qualities of objects, such as Color, sound, day-I hope soon-we shall see a mystery play by a playwright taste, etc., to be merely symbolic, we are justified in our belief who can bring all the conviction of supernatural agencies in a real world composed of things having the primary qualicreated by such a play as The Dybbuk...
...There is, perhaps, no other dramatic field offering to the intel- The author argues from data of experiences which are either ligent playwright so large an opportunity for re-creating the perceptual or introspective...
...It is one of those plays where of a monistic type...
...He has had no difficulty in persuading one that, as modern works on the subject...
...Guided to them by Mr...
...Symons suggested which the traces left by accumulating experience are so elab- when he made a watchword of The Escape from Life...
...humor, there might have been a delightful lot of that in his It is the author's contention that the South is not solid, book...
...The cult of woman-worship is passing, and whether attitude about Mr...
...color of martyrdom...
...Nor can freedom of choice ophy that Mr...
...They spiritual...
...is luminous and intriguing...
...In pictorial art the Hudson River and the Palisades Entrance held a leading role...
...PerItalian version of The Golden Legend of De Voragine...
...Belfast Irishmen among the linen drapers, provincial Frenchmen in the chemist shops, Germans in the bakeries and brew- St...
...Graded Coarse" in Both -vanished with the snows of yesteryear...
...on the other hand the development and growth of empirical The best part of this tenuous evening is the acting of Hugh psychology has turned the main tide of thought toward realism Wakefield as the distressed earl...
...We find in the instructions on stitches, with come to know the Keys of Peter, the Ship of the Church, the the accompanying sketches printed in two colors, an absolutely little trefoil leaf with which Saint Patrick illustrated the Holy clear idea of the material, the feeling for it...
...It has been made by a lonely man, in self-defense and for consolation, with a kind of secrecy as he went about what seemed the ordinary business of the poet and the critic...
...which is explained by the brain being made of psychic stuff KENNETH SLADE ALLING and JESSIE STORRS BUTLER are among the con- arranged in a physical pattern...
...Our knowledge of reality consists elemental magic of the entertainment stage...
...Symons enunciated...
...episodes about prison camps, and these are flaunted across the And yet, altogether rightly, Italy continues to be the inspiring pages of the country's papers...
...mental world, it would then follow that all things are comPADRAIC COLUM is the distinguished Irish _poet and story-teller, and the author of Wild Earth, and the Children Who Followed the Piper...
...The intention in this critical study is to show Mr...
...Frederick A. Stokes Company...
...ATHaYN WHITE RYAN, short-story writer and poet, is the author of ception and physics reveal to us the brain only in the arrangeGolden Pheasant, a book of poems...
...New York: Alfred A. T HE South is no longer the Sahara of the Bozart...
...need of introducing such magical entities as souls or entele- C RITICIZING those who adopt a patronizing attitude chies and explains consciousness in natural terms...
...ARRIGO LEVASrr is an Italian man of letters, distinguished among being, nor is it merely epistemological, but the terms are metaCatholics as co-editor with Papini of I Mistici, and the author of the physical, referring to different aspects of existents known...
...It is modestly called Needlework in Re- The CLUB WINDOW Says: ligion...
...But this 'nineties...
...Books of yesterday and the day before have collected Barbarism still breaks out occasionally, in lynchings and in memories, impressions, lore, history-whatever is interesting...
...It is, of course, quite possible to hold the belief in a soul Mr...
...enough material in it for one furious act...
...things in the soul of man...
...These same papers, plus some others (the a traveler who slips this book into his bag-it is much too gen- total is small but their influence growing) are the chief reason erously fashioned for the pocket-will be repaid by the lore for the decline of the Klan's power...
...As the simplest assumption temporary magazine poets...
...softly moulded bas-reliefs...
...Earle Welby, functions, the term might better be limited to a functional indeed, has a great deal of the penetration and of the luminous sense...
...from ancient Egypt, where the not only authorities on the history of form and symbolism, but sun was worshipped in its obvious form of the circle, to highly skilled artists in this particular branch...
...All this is perfectly true, and yet soul...
...kind of reader could derive profit and some pleasure from the The soil is still cultivated ruinously, mineral and timber retwo works under discussion, although it would be difficult to sources are too often squandered...
...Mr...
...Symons has written a powerful tragedy in The Harvesters, but I am not left convinced that there is vitality and dramatic effectiveness in this work...
...of the cruder part of its moral error ciples of which the organism is the resultant, are body and he was the severest critic...
...T. Earle Welby has Professor Drake's theory of mind is on the whole admirable, this to say : "To claim that, because beauty is always beauty, carefully constructed as it is on data of empirical psychology however manifested, all the arts are equal, is to imply that coordinated with those of introspection...
...SUMMIT, N. J. Resident and Day Pupils We are upon the days of Dodsworth's dancing school ; Campus of 12 Acres on One of Summit's Highest Points Lyman Abbot discourses on history...
...even degrading...
...This BOOK S year, Mr...
...Brignoli's well-oiled locks and Lester Wallack's drooping mustache were the ideals of feminine dreams and young OAK KNOLL School of the Holy Child beaux' ambitions, which culminated in the theatrical triumph AN ELEMENTARY and COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL of that tragi-comedy-the spectacular Black Crook...
...Symons that are beautiful poetry...
...But there helped by cool-headed men, both white and black, has produced are many excellent snapshots of scenes and persons, many excellent results--but there is still a long way to go...
...ner where Dr...
...One hemisphere he has made as a poet, the other he makes over again as a critic, completing his world...
...What is there left Music and Art Departments Lead to Teachers' Ceti6cates and Diplomas of them except the fragments of a feast elaborate, rather heavy and half-digestible, in the name and walls of the Brevoort, Saint Vincent's Hospital, and the renovated cellars of Greenwich Village...
...As it is, the journey from Pozzuoli to Paestum is well and he names a list of newspapers that have fought for principle worth making in his company...
...Hence the many pages of While Professor Drake's book, therefore, cannot justly be impressions and literary decorations that are to be found in said to offer the ultimate solution of the problems which his the works of Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, and in Mr...
...plete mental philosophy...
Vol. 4 • September 1926 • No. 20
