Books-Fact, Fiction, and Philosophy
Brennecke, Ernest Jr. & Shuster, George N. & Repplier, Agnes & Colum, Padraic & Sheen, Fulton J. & Walsh, Thomas & Clark, Edwin & Windle, Bertram C. A. & Stuart, Henry Longan & Maynard, Theodore & Riggs, T. Lawrason & Meadows, George D. & Kenny, John M. Jr.
September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL ...
...It "Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harpstring of gold, was only that the prolongation of his life-which he owed A bitter god to follow, a beautiful god to behold...
...The theme was originally from France...
...body of economic doctrine that was as wide and thoroughly There is no doubt about the motive power, since all things synthesized in its philosophy as it was detailed and specific come from God-"the eternal Now," as he calls Him, again in its application...
...The Church is reformed...
...All her life Louise Imogen Guiney remained faithful to a gift for making courageous verse and to a penchant, not wholly fortunate per- T HIS anthology which has had such a rehaps, for digging up forgotten day-before-yesterdays...
...The first is a real addition to that grim handling the ancient epic material...
...eschatology of the Phaedo...
...Health- is no contemporary evidence for the statement...
...ian" in the best sense-however: "I rather dread being found The very charming English girl who is married to a very out as a literary fellow...
...The poems in Love's Bitter Sweet have an histion...
...His attitude is profoundly different from that of the late W. K. Clifford-the "Mr...
...the basic principle of all mediaeval economic teaching...
...middle-age wisdom would not exactly disgrace some of us...
...John Dewey's recommendation of the nity...
...As an historical study, the book is marred by all this intrusive rhetoric...
...though with enough erudition to understand that the only Watts-Dunton is generally blamed for everything, and fig- element of paganism he could revive was its despair...
...It is too fascinating, too brilliant, too clear, too human...
...New We are grateful to Mr...
...Enda's, Dublin Encyclopaedia Britannica gives the number as thirteen, but Give your boy a chance, educate him in an Irish environ- the Catholic Encyclopedia of more recent date, says that there ment and he will love and bring honor to his name and race...
...Who wields that spear shall face "Fascinating . . . attractive . . . very readable a hundred foemen and know no fear...
...The Reformers, especially Cranmer, are always "scripture-inspired, spirit-led," and so forth...
...There were, for a time, the disubiquitous and gratuitous witticisms and puns : when we learn possessed loyalists, and for many years, their descendants, the that Aristotle believed woman to have fewer teeth than man, United Empire Loyalists, just across the border, to keep the we are told, "apparently his relations with women were of the sore open...
...Can he praised Spinoza for declaring that "the eternal wisdom of it be that the voices of Henry Ford, Billy Sunday, and Florenz God has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the Ziegfeld will soon have to compete with those of Plato and mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ," likewise when Spinoza...
...Begin always by life which is "a cigarette...
...A little more democratic bad manners...
...However, Mr...
...Sunshine and Barrie are generously and Colleges of the United States...
...we of philosophers is merely a crowd of impractical social and find a boost for Bertrand Russell's war books, delivered with political radicals...
...The When I ache for Magellan's or Stanley's adventures I trot key-note of this melancholy book is the pitiless maxim of La down the tow-path to Sandford...
...He honestly loves her and, as she says herself, he is her one weakness...
...PORTSMOUTH SCHOOL IN a day when psychology is in danger of degenerating into PORTSMOUTH, R. 1. (Eight miles north of Newport) psychologism and the spiritual nature of mind being confounded with organisms, it is refreshing to meet such a con- To be opened by the Benedictine Fathers of the English Congregation, Sept...
...from Bishop Berkeley which he uses as a rubric at the begin- Three Portraits...
...been a capable story-teller, with an inclination toward tall The Silver Spoon is urbane and intensive as it realizes the tales, and his latest collection is characteristic of his best fiction inner life of its characters...
...So also is the prince...
...less polite incredulity would probably be mingled with a suspicion of "red" propaganda...
...His denial of the sacrificial character of the Eucha- The poem that gives title to the present collection is a rist before Cyprian and Tertullian involves a one-sided reading rendering of the prologue to the epic tale, the Tain Bo Culaigne of the Gospels, the refusal to recognize the implications of -the "bolster-conversation" between Maeve, the queen, and Saint Paul's allusions to the Eucharist, and the ignoring of the her husband, and the quest of the bull that is to bring about the Didache, Saint Irenacus, and Saint Justin...
...Both of these novels have one fault in common...
...Durant's reading nature he was fitted to meet a situation which his ideals denied of the philosophers, and of our critics' reading of Durant, we but which his instinct told him must be faced ; and the men can only reecho Durant as quoting Schopenhauer as quoting with whom he was forced to associate and work, not only gave Lichtenberger: "Works like these are as a mirror: if an ass him a grudging welcome, but were constantly tempted to ignore looks in, you cannot expect an angel to look out...
...It seems markable sale since its publication under clear that at least some of this verse is going to last, and that the editorship of that fine poet and soldier, the "grubbing" has more than temporary value...
...Now, unfortunately for Dr...
...As much of his principles most inimical to the happiness of the people...
...KILMER AN ANTHOLOGY O'SHEEL OF CATHOLIC TO SOME few people in every generation is given the POETRY singular destiny of becoming personalities...
...Edited and plement of by new poems The Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney, edited by Grace JOYCE Images Edited by Guiney, with a preface by Jgnes Repplier...
...book...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...nor is it trans- and religion only the specimens that fit the meshes of one's formable into anything else...
...Thev each present a single full-length portrait of the heroine and leave the other characters in the state of unfinished sketches...
...single bottle of Bass's ale to which Watts-Dunton had reduced him...
...Soames Forsyte, while a (and this is much to the credit of the British government) distinctly individual character creation, represents in his ideas, with one unimportant exception, to have been left unmolested prejudices and customs, the upper middle-class which was made during the wars of the Revolution and of 1812...
...The editor of AMERICA speaks plainly and arrestingly on a vital question...
...leave room for little else...
...He thus departs SERVICE from the Cartesian tradition of making the "soul" and "mind" Our working force is composed of trained men, selected synonymous without at the same time falling into the empirical because of their ability and willingness to make extreme error of denying the soul altogether...
...Spiller's fine mono- woman shattered his fixed world...
...He is separated from the rest of the simply that "all activities fall within a single system, because animal creation by "his sense of free will, the power of choice, all, though with different degrees of immediateness, are rethe knowledge of good and evil" ; for animals have no sense of lated to a single end, and derive their significance from it," sin...
...Enda's School, North Barnstead, N. H. twentieth, and that Saint Isidore of Seville,, Fallopius, and other early writers, including many of the Popes (in fact, nearly all who opened their mouths on the subject of science) should have been ignorant of things which everybody knows ACADEMY OF OUR LADY now...
...Robert Spiller's study of Anglo-American contacts in our national level of taste and learning...
...He thinks logic "the critic, Dr...
...selves with those who make good and bad social weather, who put democracy into cold storage at Southampton or Liverpool, and whose despatches home should, to do them full justice, be The Silver Spoon, by John Galsworthy...
...time as possible was spent at his home at Ealing, where, it is Time, that great adjuster, has brought to naught many of interesting to recall, his two sons were school-fellows of John the fears of these brave, unimpressed, and uncorrupted AmeriHenry Newman...
...have been burdened by the fact that the missal "did not supersede the necessity of separate books for the Epistles and Gos- Each volume $2.00 pels and for the musical portions of the Mass...
...But Miss A study of the activities and opinions of the Joynt's Golden Legends of the Gael (evidently published for thousands of Americans who were in England durthe use of Irish schools) is just the volume to give to such an ing the half century after the Revolution...
...His world is bank- have them discover that the police had been working along the rupted-but not without hope...
...Church unity, if forced into it today...
...Price : $7.50 utmost to prove that the poet's verse is not boring, gets obvi- (including postage) ously bored by it long before his book is over, and crowds into less than forty pages everything that occurred-and it must A Ready Reference Book Dealing with Every Phase of the Catholic School System be remembered that Tristram of Lyonesse occurred-during the last thirty years of Swinburne's life...
...By way of contrast, we are asked to imagine the "superlative haughtiness" of the legate's voice at GILBERT K. CHESTERTON the reconciliation in Mary's reign...
...When the opportunity afforded for the description of the social events of royalty . . . Rush spared no effort in IN The Silver Spoon, the recent history of the Forsyte family painting a picture as glowing and colorful as possible...
...28th, 1926...
...With the pre-Reformation Church Dr...
...This does not mean that Mr...
...lump, thanks to one unhallowed cause or another, not three And yet the joy and recklessness of the portrait cannot dispel guineas a year, seldom as much as forty-five shillings...
...Catullus There remained No...
...we play soldiers here, and I have a gun, and a flag, and a The letters end abruptly, as all the most virile masterpieces sword is all I want," says an early letter with a pretty clear do...
...She longs for him as she longs for nothing else, but she wants to possess him, to run his life as efficiently as she would run one of her own restaurants...
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...And naturally, if the author thinks that Henri Bergson really to those who, like Mr...
...Durant thinks Nietzsche "a mountain peak in dullest of studies...
...an axiom universally accepted...
...i.8o...
...Neither liked the British government nor T HE period during which England was most truly a foreign the British ruling classes...
...Everlasting Man," "What I Saw in America," etc...
...Illustrated...
...temporary Europeans, we find a sympathetic account of the And, inasmuch as the two latter fields are only spasmodically exploded dualism of the spiritist Bergson, and a total and adcovered, his opus gives one the impression that the whole tribe mitted lack of comprehension of the aesthetic of Croce...
...One of the peculiar quirks of modernity is the increasing penchant of civilized folk for taking their awe and terror The Story of the English Prayer-Book, by Dyson Hague...
...here that the book as a whole is no more inaccurate, no more I came to the chapter on Bacon, then, with something of a suspicion that the writer's smartness also involves superof a bore to the discriminating reader, than is the general swarm of "popular" and "humanized" "outlines" and "stories" of ficiality and laziness, and that the book is idiotically proportioned...
...It seems like something own small net, and to label them `mediaeval thought,' is to added from outside, entering into the scheme when the mole- beg all questions...
...His title, despite his disclaimer that the work greater philosophers, from Socrates to John Dewey, has already is a complete history of philosophy, implies a promise of at sold some 50,000 copies, and that its appearance has been ac- least an approach to comprehensiveness...
...This was, of course, NEW FEATURES the No...
...and none of them seem to have the luck to little study, and we find life as merry as sleigh-bells...
...2.50...
...owed its origin, in part, to the genius of other poets...
...Though stating, without offering any evidence, that it was The Cattle Drive in Connaught, however, is not likely to "not subject to Rome," he agrees that it probably had a liturgy have a success proportionate to its merit...
...Ultimately God so loved the world that He ment, but it would be incorrect, according to the author, to gave the Being we are taught to call His Only Son, to live lay all the blame for it on the shoulders of the early Reformers...
...Certainly it contains three chapters scious of ruling the world, had for a moment sought to survey which come very near to being first-class introductions to the it as a whole and to rule it justly," he might have permitted thinkers with whom they are concerned...
...Yet when Swinburne burst like a lascivious satyr upon the A Compendium for Educators-A Guide Book for Parents staid mid-Victorian scene, his poetry struck most of the younger A Reference Volume for Libraries men as being "the most exciting thing that had ever happened...
...He has rendered certain elements of Thomistic continued to send us their printing orders for many years...
...Why shouldn't I be...
...Soo THE COMMONWEAL September 29, 1926 One of the learned professors of beautiful letters has re- tales of the mystery genre...
...bellion is never entirely hushed: "I can do nothing that I like...
...In his solid, persevering graph are the comments of American travelers on the industrial manner, he put some of it together again...
...the American, the exaggerated national assertiveness necessary The effect of all this rubbishy discourse is aggravated by the to meet the new situation...
...On numberlittle more to me than names...
...An unspoiled Celt to the very last secret place of these poems are entirely secular in matter in the spirit which leaped through her eyes, she had nevertheand the anthology besides appealing to less been emancipated from political melancholy by contact with a hard and only rarely comely New England...
...treadmill...
...indeed, not only were they considered argument, though apparently he is ignorant of the fact...
...some snorts on the inductive habit of logical thought...
...and Murdock Aves...
...There is hardly any use in referring such enquirers Independence to Standish O'Grady's Silva Gadelica, or Leahy's Irish Heroic Romances...
...Bronx, New York City Conducted by MARIST BROTHERS Select Boarding and Day School f or Boys HIGH SCHOOL, GRAMMAR, PRIMARY Opens in September, 1926 Write for Prospectus NEW FEET for OLD ! Shane was the product of her heredity and environment...
...New York: Doubleday, what acting his is...
...ENDA'S SCHOOL statement...
...which do not strictly belong to Love's Bitter Sweet-the Fingal W HEN an Irish poet gives The Cattle Drive in Con- farmer's curse upon the mare which has thrown him just as naught as a title to a collection of poems, he is making he was going courting, and the bitter poem about the misery an ambitious claim : it is to nothing less than the power of of a cottar's life...
...To Father Brown he has transhonesty and courage of Marjorie win the approval of society, ferred some of his recent experiences, while lecturing here, who turn from the protected Fleur and leave her to the com- and his comments upon the American scene and methods are pany of her men-folk...
...tions are lifelike and acute...
...fact that Allston, from patriotic motives, returned to the United He interestingly stands for a definite view of life...
...ing until it is too late for the lesson to be of value...
...character robust enough to hold up a poem that is concerned With Dr...
...She is somewhat And in the famous opening chorus of Atalanta in Calydon less successful than Mr...
...But the mystagogues hide a thing at Fleur, climbing on the efforts of her father and husband...
...Austin Clarke, in the anthology of characteristically Irish poetry-the poetry of inpresent volume and the volumes he has previously published, vective-and the second poem abolishes time for us by showing has shown powers which make such a claim seem not at all that the poor man of the sixteenth or seventeenth century had extravagant-he has a flair for rendering wide and windy as- the same things to complain about as the poor man in the pects of country, he has the command of a musical and oddly Ireland of our time...
...There was, on alter...
...The publishers of the present volume seem to think he quoted another of his idols, Santayana, as declaring that so: in an open letter to Mr...
...New York: Charles typed on rose-colored stationery...
...BONI & LIVERIGHT, N. Y. "Louise Imogen Guiney worked hard and loved idleness504 THE COMMONWEAL September 29, 1926 idleness to read, idleness to roam the countryside...
...Catholic Colleges and Schools O NLY a very young man can take much interest today in 544 pages, blue cloth, gold striped ; 3 maps, 4 charts Swinburne's poetry...
...She really did write generously and intimately enough with my old zest...
...Detachment, indeed, was John Quincy's retort to the and Birmingham in our country, should we date the commenceinsolence of Vanity Fair toward a diplomat whose headquarters ment of a system dangerous to its liberties, and fraught with were above a Turkish Bath in Harley Street...
...Anglicanism, by reason of its practical PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Resident and Day Pupils identification of interest with the ruling aristocracy, leaned to- Boys admitted to the Elementary Departmessts ward the side of undiluted capitalism in the rapidly widening rkn,te,ea by the University of the State of New York breach between religion and economics, while the non-conformist bodies, which might have seemed qualified to reassert the supremacy of religious motives and criteria in economics, were rendered largely ineffective by a Manichaean spirit inherent in St...
...The Innocence of Father Brown The author looks at everything through spectacles of the deepest Protestant dye...
...There are many such lucid reflections to help us bear the weary New York City 353 Fourth Avenue, monotony of love-making, and the weary passage of time...
...The world, in unexpected directions and eerie atmosphere of bloody horror as of yore, gives its admiration and appreciation to the inde- mingled with his pawky humor...
...4.00 The occasional poems into which the heightened passages are carried in Irish story-telling are well-rendered, as witness FRANZ LISZT the passage in which the Luprachan, held by King Fergus, (L' Homme d' Amour) offers ransom for himself By GUY DE POURTALES "Take my spear, 0 Fergus...
...Winter after winter, and scarlet fever and the cold and snow and business stopped...
...They are too many, and, for the most part, they are too minutely followed...
...He Sweet comes, but, like the collection of poems, these stories als September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 503 belong to the aristocratic rather than to the folk-life ; they U are the stories that the literati of Ireland concerned themselves with and took care to hand down to their successors...
...He was more amused than impressed, upon his still worse, a commercial aristocracy, which experience proves several visits to Parliament, at the pompous formalities in- to be the most inexorable, relentless, and cold-blooded of all dulged in by the members, but he expresses his feeling again tyrannies...
...A young Englishman tells a Russian lady that she and her compatriots are so clever that Price, $2.00 they take his breath away...
...These tribution to scholasticism as this work of Father Pyne, pro- fathers conduct Downside and Ampleforth Schools fessor of philosophy at Fordham University...
...with anything like reality...
...their countenances are illumined with the strange and solemn light of scriptural knowledge and spiritual power...
...This is do exist...
...It is evident at a glance how difficult was the The Story of Philosophy...
...She But the stanza which begins with mere ingenuity, with appears so much more anxious to advance the cause of women alliteration, and the use of internal rhyme and the factitious in the field of law than to forward the personal story of her antithesis and the familiar allusion to sin ends with: heroine that her tale suffers at times...
...Thank heaven they aren't...
...But it is not the frus- OXFORD MOVEMENT trated passions of Mr...
...Thus, before the veil of ing through unreadable stuff, I got hold of The Story of Phil- the 1\Iayflower-Sulgrave ideology falls upon Anglo-American osophy...
...School-girl deserve...
...And myself is a creature as ought to but a novel 700 pages long which is pure narrative, unbe fighting, or discovering, or breaking horses, instead of mew- padded with introspection, is out of the ordinary range of ing round in the trail of the silly Muses...
...The temptations I can At all bookstores overcome turn out not to have been temptations at all ; and when they really are temptations, I cannot overcome them...
...But it is a Joyce Kilmer, has been here almost doubled in moral axiom that all good children without exception deserve value by the addition of many important poems to be told about the "self" of Miss Guiney, so that when they and poets (sixty-four pages), arranged by have grown, they will recognize her as a kind of lucent image another well-loved poet, Shaemas O'Sheel...
...For Protestantism is a petrifac- literatures...
...manufacture and sale of necessary commodities...
...novel writing, present two novels dealing with women and In the poems are tangled, almost inextricably, magnificence, careers that are interesting as contrasts in viewpoint and locale...
...and finally, in 1899, this was who are already provided with the one husband or the one written: "Some day, when I am free (i.e., moth-eaten and tame wife whom law and custom permit...
...And why is it necessary to speak has not shown-at least as yet-the power of organizing a of "so-called Latin hymns...
...literature in the fourteenth century...
...His was a startling in- poems on obscure sexual perversities should be gently accounted stance of genius somehow associated with arrested develop- for on the ground of a pathological condition that made the ment...
...It cannot develop without reacting toward Catholicism torical value besides their value as poetry, because they help us or dissolving into modernistic naturalism...
...The story of the boyhood and schoolMr...
...The philosopher 510 THE COMMONWEAL September 29, 1926 whom I select for this task is Saint Thomas the `Angel of the SETON HILL Schools.' He is able to carry through his contract without any danger of default...
...Plato may well to meet aristocratic rudeness with simple and homespun digfeel himself flattered...
...He knows what springs they spend in London, what in Auburndale, but rise to new heights with emancipation from early summers in Russia, what autumns in the Vosges, what the "U.S.A...
...The novel is based on the traditional position of the ever saw," his successor merely records that "the opinions in Forsyte family, with its class consciousness and clan dominance, which I feel most confidence, and which are most important, and its resistance to a changing order...
...Thus Tudor absolutism, at the service The Wisdom of Father Brown of a small group of Reformers for the spreading of new doctrine against the wishes of the enormous majority of clergy and The newest "Father Brown" story people, as Dr...
...One of the Fitzgeralds, Gerald, fourth earl of The Cattle Drive in Connaught, by Justin Clarke...
...H. G. Wells, they point with "those dark ages, from which our political practice is derived, proud complacency to such evidence of the birth-agonies of a had a political theory we should do well to study...
...He was frankly dazzled by what New York: Dodd, Mead and Company...
...I'd like to be hard like iron nails, hard, hard, hard, so there couldn't nothing ever hurt me...
...Dreams and Images: An Anthology of Catholic Poets, by Joyce Kilmer...
...Graded Courses in Both York: Charles Scribner's Sons...
...Durant bewails the fact that those "middle-ages" aren't or checkmate its wiles by what might easily be represented as quite over yet...
...The rush and surge of the the smugness of mid-Victorianism, and his frenetic invocations, verse, the almost intolerable ingenuities are there...
...being a sceptic, in so far as his unraveling of worldly mystery She is woman as an institution, rather than as an individual...
...An absolutely Catholic regarded as inseparable...
...By When we soberly consider the result of Dr...
...ship and breadth of view, Mr...
...Simply in order to make himself intelligible, The author's generous sprinkling of smart cracks, in the manner of Will Rogers imitating Lytton Strachey, will Dr...
...him except where the business of diplomacy made association ERNEST BRENNECKE, JR...
...Still, the Galsworthy of his four amateur detectives, who try to keep the matter interest in the future can hardly be said to be entirely disin- from the police until they have solved the mystery, only to terested...
...These books usually exhibit an extraordinary kind Self-help, farming...
...There must have been a beginning...
...Spiller is speak- dissonance...
...Tawney traces the history of the revolution in civilized thought which has so completely divorced How have things come to be as they are...
...London: Desmond, introduced the theme of courtly love into Irish George Allen and Unwin...
...New York: ogy of the Phaedrus, and the Symposium...
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...What a pity that Sir Oliver cannot learn that in this latter dogma and authority and expected the superstructure to remain part of his life, at any rate, he is talking much that is Catholic.firm...
...its sadness-the slow defeat of as exalted a courage as ever It is best to pause with this emphasis upon the fatal barrilived by poverty and domestic care, by the silence of a public cade that was never to be crossed...
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...Beauty he could not withstand or with positive dismay...
...but the knowing of all forms and fashions will keep astrologers, she writes, "finished by sending me out among the them close, will bless their laughter and their sobbing, and will Sioux, to convert them, but not to civilize, as I would not understand-long before they have reached the end of two countenance their departure from the wild life of the prairie...
...in a capsule manner, that is, within the book covers of a New York: Longmans, Green and Company...
...You don't know what it is to have to live to piece out something like a motion-picture of herself ; but on public praise...
...To which she makes wise answer "We are cultivated-too cultivated ; we have made a fetish of culture in Russia...
...We must submit to what we cannot statement is not so paradoxical as it sounds...
...Saunders" In the course of this book, which achieves high distinction of Mallock's New Republic, when he said "the world is made in its combination of deep scholarship, fine literary workmanof atoms and ether and there is no room in it for ghosts...
...Modeled after St...
...The Golden Legends of the Gael, by Maud Joynt...
...AGr ES REPPLIER...
...Bones that groan and joints that creak, No more look as if a freakTender toes and tendons meek, Styles that make the foot so sleek...
...is the singular incident of a Christian gentleman in modern Chesterton in a note to his collected tales, makes certain that fiction...
...dur- Nor any sound or sight: ing his first year at Balliol, there flamed for him Mazzini and Nor wintry days nor vernal, the detestation of Napoleon III...
...Most of them didn't care for either-the earlier diplomats We herewith turn out the guard and fire a 21-gun salute for least of all...
...Hendrik Van Loon: "After forty-four years of plow- that seldom sees the light today...
...However, it is not difficult to pick out cules have become sufficiently developed to receive it...
...And thy are much too superficial to pass as character studies...
...Studiousness has now become a fixed winters in Rome...
...The publishers, to judge from their adver- caste in Britain toward the majority who were fighting to tisements, depend on these and similar flashes of inspiration keep the Union intact, and more precisely, with the Masonto sell the book to multitudes...
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...the English poets at the same time...
...Tawney does not attempt to hide his own sympathies, which are on the side of the spiritual synthesis, The Jesuit Martyrs of North America with which the contemporary world has so largely lost touch, By JOHN J. WYNNE but he never lets his enthusiasm as an idealist interfere with The only complete story of these heroes of our American his impartiality as a scholar or his restraint as a writer...
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...When Gaelic literature was most wine has already burst the bottle, if unbridled chaos of doc- vigorous, it was receiving influences from the current European trine and practice can do so...
...let us see: the book turn the echo of a former age of reason when a few men, conitself will tell the tale...
...2.50 fore (though it is not easy to understand how or why) her heart ran back to the only spiritual country where there was room for her-the land of Platonic Englishmen, where Cra- GOOD BOOKS shaw lived with Vaughan under the danger-haunted rule of Stuart kings...
...He is groping for a way out...
...Discussions of particular phases of Catholic eduproducing an acute piece of critical writing...
...The only book of philosophy which I've been "the Old Home...
...Swinburne's emotional receptivity began to ossify in 1857, But he was a pagan, an elaborate and determined pagan, that is, in his twenty-first year...
...Yet such is the craft of John Galsworthy, that The every hand, "for England, though rich, has poverty gaping Silver Spoon, stemming from the background of the Saga, is an everywhere you look," and where Adams the younger com- independent unit-can be read as such-though its significance plains that "the extremes of opulence are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious in this country than in any I is greater when seen against the continuity of Forsyte family history...
...Durant might have explained to his benighted readers just speed along the elementary reader pleasantly enough: they what intellectual horrors lurked in the empty darknesses of those are fairly brilliant efforts for a Doctor of Philosophy who middle-ages, just what alchemical lunacies scrambled the wits seems to sneer at Ph.D's but finds it politic to use the degree of those poor scholastics and metaphysicians, before he proon his own title-page...
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...By defining mind in terms of the soul, Father Pyne has laid stress on the unity of consciousness which is one of the perplexing problems of modern V psychology...
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...All these things have been described by Max Susan Shane, by Roger Burlingame...
...NEWFYORKNCITY ous and numerous books on this topic which emerge from the press, those at least of non-Catholic origin...
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...Soames is indignant...
...At this moment, bad humor were leading them...
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...The tocsin of re- Page and Company...
...Heywood Broun, know these names only by the vaguest hearsay...
...I would...
...none of the eloquent practical psychol- so much "moonshine...
...Gaelic taught...
...it does not appear slogan: "To select from so immense a sea of ideas about society to be explicable in terms of something else...
...Of the two stories, Susan Shane is by far the better told and more interesting, but it lacks the depth and understanding of a really first-rate novel...
...courts of Europe were made native to the Ireland of these centuries...
...Durant alive, press notices and all...
...enough in Auburndale, was punctuated with compliments from canny men like Colonel Higginson and Doctor Holmes as well as with glimpses of a wider world, Coquelin-"Whew...
...tion of nebulae through which the heavenly bodies have been Those who regard the middle-ages simply from the aesthetic formed are described in simple terms, and the question dis- standpoint of Sir Walter Scott and the "Gothic" enthusiasts cussed as to whether or not the process may be looked upon of the Romantic revival, or else as a bizarre conglomerate of as cyclical...
...New Visitors at All Times...
...September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 497 BOOKS-FACT, FICTION, AND PHILOSOPHY The Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant...
...He does not hesitate to make great 1VIaeve talk like an testantism is "a revival of apostolic Christianity," with a fervor assertive Connaught woman whom we might know...
...n w ,n ~xx,..n n, nn ,,n nmnn, . n,~nn ., nnwmuuunmnnuimmmrvxunmu~unxnenuwx+uwuxnixnnuu~a~wmmu.xwnn~xixummunrvxmuimmunxmux~mniu~um,aisnunraunnm...
...1.75...
...was shown him...
...expounds the business of the "mystagogue" in his revealing Posited in contrast to Fleur, is Marjorie, reckless daughter of conclusion that "real mystics don't hide mysteries, they reveal an old titled family, who isn't accepting life or station, but them...
...psychology intelligible, not only to modern minds, but even to May we sitimate on your printing...
...Tawney quotes from the Summa ters nothing," had that sense-"it was an upward step and Theologiae of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the perfect happiness he fell over it...
...Ursula of the Blessed Virgin their theology, which saw the world of business and economic On the Hudson effort as a special field of the Evil One and as something quite ACADEMY FOR GIRLS KINGSTON, N. Y. incapable of being baptized into part of the Christian synthesis...
...Invitations were showered Scribner's Sons...
...Dublin: The Cuala Press...
...It Heidelberg, or a flat in Mount Street, he makes clear to us would appear that the dear old gentleman hath constituted their surroundings, and prepares us for the next move, me a sort of agent for all America," a letter remarks half The only serious occupation of all these men and women is triumphantly, half complainingly...
...HENRY HOLT & COMPANY rake my shirt-of fine linen thread 'tis spun...
...Here is to be found the clever twists through their tradition and love, are beaten men...
...Hence the complications with years) I am going to emigrate to some hamlet that of their very complicated lives...
...For all this part of his work the author, as he freely acknowledges, has extensively used the researches of Cardinal Gasquet...
...When a wonderful act, dreadful in its inevitable consequences...
...none of the beautiful Sinaon and Schuster...
...One can warmly those sentiments to influence the proportioning of his book...
...of Independence, by Robert E. Spiller...
...Music and Art Departments Lead to Teachers' Certificates and Diplomas PROFESSOR PHELPS is an institution...
...In 19o1 the address has become Oxford and the sense of honor...
...him down for it...
...Burlingame in her result, for she we see the poet struggling with the virtuoso: seems imbued with a thesis on feminism that is a bit antiquated "For winter's rains and ruins are over, in this year of Our Lord 1926...
...volumes beautiful in every way-that here is the quintessence That is native American temperament for you ! But soon the of a genial woman who was also, always, a heroine...
...The In an eternal night...
...political history...
...12mo...
...As Mr...
...obligatory...
...George A. Dorsey writes: seers were traveling in what Hawthorne later was to call "Magnificent...
...Take my crimson tunic of silken mesh...
...Are hymns not hymns unless complete narrative, nor has he shown the power of creating they are sung in English...
...Conversa- about them by their contemporaries...
...Father Knox, tongue in cheek, several glowing passages, is a meditative novel concerned with has set down the story of four gentlemen golfers who, acting a restless and jazzed people and those they disturb...
...in a hundred years its r color will still be fresh...
...Even the staunchest of Dr...
...Hague's communion we would especially time and the inclination to note the brooch or the cloak that recommend the careful studying of a book which, with all its a lady had on and to make a poem about the cloak or the incidental bias, proves by indisputable evidence how little the brooch in an elaborate and literary form...
...As Dr...
...a redemonstration of the hopeless and infallible imbecility of Mr...
...The mutual love, unspoken and incompatible, is allowed to slip away and Susan, with the pathetic escape of many a disappointed woman, accepts in a marriage with Bernard Moore, the wraith of her desire for David...
...It requires from the of the Gallican type, "largely identical with the Roman Mass reader not only a knowledge of Irish tradition, but a knowledge service of that date," and including "the offering of the sacri- of its byways and in many of the passages it demands the fice upon the altar...
...Nicolson set out heroically, and, more intelligible...
...New York: records, "with an easy acquiescence and a genuine enjoyment...
...And we gather from Scribner's Sons...
...Their nation Austin, "the United States is rather an agricultural, than a hates us, their ministers hate us, and their king, more than commercial, country : otherwise, in spite of the Constitution, all other men...
...Father Brown All that she is, is the result of the Forsytean inheritance...
...Chaplaincy, Newman Club or Catholic College By WILFRID PARSONS, S.J...
...He attempts a epistemology, the fundamental inquiry as to the mind's capa- "medical" explanation of Schopenhauer's closely reasoned sysbilities and limitations, as a waste of time and the bane of tem, for which it is well that Schopenhauer is at the moment modern thinking...
...Life is careless-"Bohem- Rochefoucauld : "On arrive novice a tous les ages...
...Three Studios Open to As I Like It: Third Series, by William Lyon Phelps...
...2 the Pines, and the delightful study had put it more tersely with at the top of the house, and the walks upon Wimbledon Com- "Nobis can semel occidit brevis lux, mon with the poet's silky beard tossing in the wind as he nox est perpetua una dormienda...
...chanted a chorus out of Euripides or a chapter from Isaiah, and the delightful encounter of a "be-eautiful babby" in its For even the despair of this poet, who was so inexperienced in pram, and the return home of the deaf, mild, and charmingly living as to be all but innocent, was vicarious...
...Religious feeling was inundating Louise was a convent girl and the daughter of a soldier...
...and every page of her correspondence proves her deep trayed with exquisite care and precision...
...The suspicion rapidly matures to conviction...
...Apparently, Galsworthy will same lines as themselves...
...The Mind, by John X. Pyne...
...One is always rather sure of what to expect therein, but the total effect is charming and beneficial...
...ears, and swing out clear from this very smart century alto- Most of his lovers have sensitive consciences and a delicate gether...
...love for and understanding of the past...
...Thereby they prove themselves Slidell incident...
...Take my cloak, 0 Fergus 1 'tis ever new...
...upon the visiting diplomats, and Rush was in the mood to The Incredulity of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton...
...In London he eschewed smart society, spend- can democrats...
...Michael is one-with the Arnoldians and old stories so slight, that the archaeology and history are largely Soames...
...for the present day and may it attain the success it deserves...
...twill last thy time $2.50 at all Booksellers and thy son's and thy grandson's too...
...Who that shield doth hold will Harry Hansen in Harper's Magazine ne'er get scratch in fight, be he young or old...
...1.25...
...Thank God," says lawyer William keep secure in his own fashion...
...But beauty remained system, already in its full and fell career...
...contained a large number of books, all of which have been 2. Maps and charts to make the mass o f statistics summarily dealt with...
...In this instance it is Roger Bacon, stated to be The Only School of Its Kind in the U. S. imprisoned for eighteen years up to the age of eighty...
...thoroughly demonstrated in The Silver Spoon, where we watch Readers of the previous adventures of Father Brown in the him abandon his publishing business to stand for Parliament, earlier books of The Innocence of Father Brown, and The under the pretense of desiring to help England in its post-war Wisdom of Father Brown, will find a livelier entertainment in crisis...
...One cannot predict that they will enjoy the popularity they indication of which way the wind is blowing...
...Chesterton is deliberpretext to let Fleur bask in the reflected glory of her husband...
...2.00...
...author sees great improvement in our native American "taste...
...Its incidents turn are those which refer to the wealth and power of England and upon a trivial libel suit...
...The extreme Conducted by the Sisters of Notre Dame nebulosity of non-Catholic theology makes them poor reading ACADEMIC COURSE-Prepares for College or Normal for the Catholic scholar, whose manuals possess, as a rule, a Entrance far wider exposition of the scientific, as well as sound theology MUSIC-Conservatory Methods in Piano, Violin and Vocal ART-Special Advantages...
...The both sides, the rancor of a war not fought out without leaving final section, on "American philosophers," is devoted to San- many an unpleasant mutual memory...
...James...
...there are many good words for Shaw and "John Ferguson...
...The writer of the present S IR OLIVER LODGE is always worth reading...
...any Catholic could, that before the Reformation "there was no Chesterton and Father Knox, amuse themselves by writing such thing as a Church of England doctrine as distinct from September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 50 the doctrine of the Church of Rome...
...not philosophy, a fact emphasized by the omission of Descartes, For it soon becomes evident that Dr...
...In Erin's land no better sword wilt enthralling...
...A Biographical and Literary Study It reads like a transcript from the diary of that most disBy BERTRAM NEWMAN cerning and devoted of French diplomatists, M. Maurice Paleologue...
...fully here...
...Durant possesses a tem- Leibnitz, Fichte, Schelling, and we might justly add, of Carperament and 'a set of opinions which (to put it mildly) are lyle, Mill, and Newman...
...All the same, there is a great deal more...
...Many of them kept diaries or wrote letters able to read from cover to cover without getting mad or in which their impressions were recorded with a frankness bored...
...And for these (it is a heavy charge) Watts-Dun- But this beautiful writing-like so much else in Swinburneton must be held responsible...
...At sclemn Mass, where alone they would be needed, the use of separate books containing only the parts needed by different people, is an obvious convenience...
...Price Five Cents THE AMERICA PRESS 4849 Grand Central Terminal, New York, N. Y. Fuming, fretting, fussy feet, Youthified and healthy feet, Tired, aching too...
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...We have faith in his pre- days, the religious experiences and the sentation of human nature, and in the fashion in which it writings of the great Victorian...
...Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company...
...A more or THOMAS WALSH...
...Nor could he unusually artistic methods...
...wrong man, rejecting the evidence they possess against the Not that his vision is distorted...
...Metaphysics is to him a fruitless and German prose," and Also sprach Zarathustra "the greatest squirming contention with bloodless shadows...
...Home economics department...
...Street magnate or the operator of "big business" would O'Sheel, however, has given us considerable pleasure with his receive the suggestion that religion should bear any relation, say, introduction of poems by Joseph Campbell, Tom Kettle, to his manipulation of finance or his profit-making from the Francis Ledgwidge, and William H. Mallock...
...but I shall never be able to plan and carry on Guiney...
...Boarders and Day Pupils The effect of the whole historical process is, in the author's Apply to MOTHER SUPERIOR own words, that, "Religion has been converted from the keystone which holds together the social fabric, into one department within it, and the idea of a rule of right is replaced by They have given an example of heroic virtue that ought never to be lost economic expediency as the arbiter of policy and the criterion to that land to which their spirits gave their brave dust.-N...
...5.oo...
...The great war revived the which should have applauded, by-yes, this also-the insatiable poet's martial spirit: she was a fierce partisan, as might have romantic heimweh which was only her version of the desperate been expected from one who had seen Germany only at its universal hunger for immortality...
...Naturally, except for the character of Father family fortune gives way to a world tour to obliviate her dis- Brown, and some diverting caricatures of types, the emphasis is tressing failure...
...It may be ful country location...
...abuses of his time and his "almost servile reliance on the September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 509 secular authorities...
...And the case of N. C. W. C. BUREAU OF EDUCATION this poet is one of the most fascinating of problems in literary 1312 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C. psychology...
...Mean- meet the right people at the right time, which is a genuine while, my fine tinsel dreams of going here and there, have misfortune...
...In homely language, the early American minister carried a chip on his shoulder...
...The art of Galsworthy, however, their steady augmentation...
...They discover to their cost that life teaches nothfaded...
...varied verse, he has a good deal of the extravagance and The Golden Legends of the Gael belong to a period further boisterousness that belong to the old Irish literature...
...to have done your very best in composing or she did it breathlessly, without a thought of pose or a whiff editing some sixteen books, and to draw from them in the of the "curator mood" which deadens so much correspondence...
...wise, against his archaic theories, or lack of evidence in their In writing about the ancient Irish world, Austin Clarke favor, can have little effect on our author...
...His panaceas for all ills are as dreary as most-and his further adventures which have more of the relishing flavor his advent into politics, for which he is poorly fitted, is but a of Chesterton's insatiable spirit...
...to those words, "a Lofty Being," for the curse of much non- The beginning of the transition to the modern attitude Catholic writing is the ambiguous use of terms due to its faulty toward economics becomes clearly discernible at the time of philosophical training...
...Calvin, more logical and spiritually more URSULINE ACADEMY courageous, took the main features of a commercial civiliza- Grand Concourse (East 165th Street), New York City tion for granted and endeavored to apply his own rigid rule to economic conduct...
...This is the actuality, and it accords with Mr...
...Irish atmosphere...
...and fifteenth--even the fourteenth-centuries were not like the Headmaster, St...
...girl had grown, poems had attracted attention, life, stagnant GEORGE N. SHUSTER...
...2.00...
...3.50...
...Spiller The Viaduct Murder, by Ronald A. Knox...
...ture, or rather of an immemorial civilization, and of an unSeptember 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 505 canny intelligence...
...The originality and depth of As I Like It will not Conducted by the Christian Brothers astound anybody, but there are so many discreet and interestAddress: Sound View Ave., Bronx, N. Y. C. ing remarks that the volume deserves to be put where you will find it within easy reach at any time...
...Ossification was all but complete, however, by the time that Swinburne had been taken charge of at Putney...
...He illustrates the individual being absorbed by tradi- assumed for the sake of the story...
...It is our good for- thorough, and orderly account...
...The poems in the slender collection which Mr...
...On the English side tayana's rationalism, to the cowardly slap-dash of William there was the grudging admission of final and irremediable loss James's pragmatism, and to Professor John Dewey, who has from a people temperamentally reluctant to own defeat ; on yet to make it clear what he stands for...
...In this wav, the volume gains in value with the inclusion of some five of Joyce Kilmer's best poems, but the book is strangely silent about the work, very superior and very lovely, of his wife, Aline Kilmer...
...The the crazy old king...
...Of Plato, we get only the impossible Utopian the remark that his mathematics, logic, and epistemology are dream of The Republic...
...for their new intelligence...
...The envoy at court," says Mr...
...36 West 36th Street 322 Livingston Street New York Brooklyn, N. Y. pens in 50$ THE COMMONWEAL September 29, 1926 his inclusion of work by Aubrey Beardsley, Sir Roger Case- Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, by R. H. Tawney...
...Secretarial Department, Elementary School Special advantages in Music and Art...
...that is of high merit and interest...
...Hague is simply un-• Readers of Chesterton's two earlier books able to deal calmly or accurately...
...One would think that the reading of almost any of A S TO the facts concerning the development of the Anglican our newspapers would be sufficient-but it isn't-and the vogue prayer-book, and its descendants in Scotland, Ireland, the set by our great master minds finding relaxation in mystery United States, and Canada, Dr...
...Rich enquirer, for it is the work of a scholar who knows the originals in anecdote, social gossip, religious, literary, and in their difficult language, written in clear English...
...But it was circumstances The American in England During the First Half Century rather than himself that put it there...
...Baring's dramatis personae which make the charm of his book...
...But nothing save love seems to interest them, business in hand the resuscitation of Vaughan...
...Saturday Review find in a prince's hand...
...Jefferson, introduced September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 499 while on a visit from Paris, is more emphatic...
...2 the Pines period, when Swinburne lived carefully i. Much more detailed information regarding indiswathed in cotton-wool by Watts-Dunton, but the period also vidual schools...
...He must be pardoned, if possible, on that account, just as his was practically destitute of feeling...
...The queerly mixed Such was not the case...
...O'Sheel is constant to his Irish affiliations with the introduction of a number of ancient songs which were quite beyond the scope of Kilmer's horizons for his anthology ; while he makes no mention of G. K. Chesterton and Michael Field, INSTITUTE OF HOLY ANGELS, Fort Lee, N. J. HIGH SCHOOL Registered by the University of the State of New York and by the New Jersey State Board of Education...
...We learn how the first American flag dis- enjoy two of its three desirable attainments-liberty, sufficiency played in England was painted by Copley on a marine picture and security-in combinations of twos...
...The first man, "whether we call him Adam or not, mat- and that end was, as Mr...
...recommend Dr...
...After reading Rush's Residence raises this drawing-room scandal into a potent symbol of the at the Court of London, one no longer wonders where the status of contemporary manners and morals...
...e_ The notes to the book are distinctly valuable-a study of 9 il them will help to clear up the main points of Irish mythology...
...A Splendid Review of the Growth of the Catholic They were enchanted by a new music, and rolled his sonorous Educational System Between 1920 and 1926 blasphemies upon their tongues with a dark, voluptuous delight...
...Forty-four years...
...This is all very good...
...Spiller, "was caught between two irreconcilable dilemmas...
...Unable to continue his artistic studies after the war, he gets a job selling bonds-at which occupation he is not overly successful...
...Of conspecial branches of politics, sociology, ethics, and aesthetics...
...Yet, he would have claimed with instant and vociferous unanimity by practically us accept his notion that after Aristotle's death there ensued every important and unimportant critical organ in the United a big black gap of i8oo chiefly Catholic-Christian years, during States...
...Hard...
...A./Ir...
...ignoble diatribes on the subject of the Boer War, of course, came later...
...And that Bertrand Russell, being the The ill-will may be said to have culminated generally dursecond son of the Earl of Russell, "missed an earldom by an ing the war of secession in the bitterness displayed by the ruling heir's breadth...
...Six year course...
...Dreams With a SupPADRAIC COLUM...
...But it was developed by the Irish poets in a Love's Bitter Sweet, translated from the Irish by Robin manner very like to that in which it was being developed by Flower...
...New York: what might now appear as a piece of doctrinaire pedantry was George H. Doran Company...
...New York: Boni and Liveright...
...As a foil for Susan Shane's philosophy of materialism, the author provides David Cord, a childhood sweetheart who has become a sculptor...
...While this work in England and Fort Augustus in Scotland...
...yet so great I am, I will not say embittered-my worst enemy would allow was the prodigality of her pen that time and fatigue seem that I have no grievances!-but atrophied...
...If I ever finish longequally out of the reckoning," says Miss Repplier in an ad- begun and long-interrupted tasks, I shall do almost more than mirable preface to the collection of letters compiled by Grace I now hope for...
...They Two Important New Books are retold by a well-known Irish scholar, Miss Maud Joynt, and they make a book that is of real value...
...Where is brought up to date...
...Genesis, he says, is not to be taken as a text-book of science, but we must try two factors of life-religion and economics-which were once patiently "to dig out its meaning...
...its triviality style of that eminent American envoy to Britain, the late throws a bankrupt society into high relief...
...Hague's doctrinal position it is impossible to deal with great action...
...Problems of a very similar sort tion...
...Either they had to let the British Foreign Office "put it over," Dr...
...Johnson once said, every man has a right to them stimulating, and may consequently feel the urge to attack express his opinion-but every other man has a right to knock the originals...
...New York: Charles Beerbohm in his inimitable manner...
...and with the exception of Susan Shane and Victor, her Irish flute-playing father, who was "sometimes a socialist and sometimes a Catholic," Mr...
...and other worthies...
...Bachelor degree in arts, science, and music...
...Susan September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 507 A OUf t Aitbla.le 5 Nereid (238th St...
...Hague has written a clear, stories, has found increasing followers...
...They all disinter once more poor old Galileo, who really deserves a rest, and generally his disinterment is the signal for an orgy of misST...
...Hence his passionate fulminations against the economic BERTRADM C. A. WINDLE...
...the Irish, but a collection which will have a fresh appeal to The book's final paragraph is a plea for the eternal main- those who know Irish poetry through translations of folk-songs tenance of the sixteenth-century status quo...
...A College Preparatory Boarding School for boys...
...20th...
...I'll be hard...
...was founded to give mankind, reach us, in this age of chilled Richard Rush, minister in 1817, is the first of a fairly long enthusiasms and moral fatigue, carrying with them "such grace line of representatives whose aim has been to ingratiate them- as morning shadows wear...
...498 THE COMMONWEAL September 29, 1926 of the existence of Unamuno and Count Keyserling...
...ment, Joseph I. C. Clark, Lord Alfred Douglas, Francis New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company...
...Hackett, Joseph Blanco White and Oscar Wilde, would have IT WOULD be interesting to see how the average Wall set up barriers in Kilmer's mind, difficult to surmount...
...It is refreshing to find ProApproved by the Regents of New York fessor Phelps faithful as ever to his conviction that literature State is a matter of good books rather than of the "great American novel...
...theory about a universal empire and a catholic church was in It sounds incredible, but it may be so...
...The Circuit of Cuchullain, and The Frenzy of Suibhne...
...and an English commentary on the Contra Gentes are quoted whereas no mention is made of those works of the Angelic Doctor which bear on his subject, such as De Unitate IntelLadycliff Academy lectus, or his commentary on De Anima...
...Far from it...
...The transformation Detective Stories of the Mass into a Protestant communion service by the abolition of the doctrines of the Real Presence and the Eucharistic That Are Different Sacrifice is clearly demonstrated, as is also the abandonment, in the new ordinal, of Catholic teaching concerning the priesthood...
...family and home life and a legal career...
...It seems, at first blush, to indicate that our national which no single valuable human thought found enduring excivilization, so long addicted (in the general estimation) to pression...
...THE CENTURY CO...
...In pairs they function whose completion was only waiting upon the formal declara- harmoniously...
...And above all, why N 1ti1tir% % N should not the author in treating of mind go to Saint Thomas's Highland Falls, N. Y. very treatise on this subject, De Mente, to be found in De Chartered Regents School for Girls Veritate...
...in secrecy and darkness and when you find it, it's a platitude...
...The Church only...
...cannot doubt that he endorses whole-heartedly the sentence Sequel to Parkman's "The Jesuits in North America...
...extreme worst-in England...
...gradually extinguished as he wrote on Swinburne...
...In cloth, gilt letter, Warren paper, 250 pages $1.50 not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, The Universal Knowledge Foundation but will indubitably make a sorry patriot and statesman...
...with a supplement by Shaemas O'Sheel...
...Flower for including a few poems York: The Irish Book Shop...
...Baring's prodigious memory enables him to naturally enough, become the favorite living author, although people his canvas with scores of characters whom he rememthe correspondence reveals a growing intimacy with English bers, though the reader doesn't, and to follow their fortunes connoisseurs of the world's oldest literature...
...there is hardly need to repeat a commendation for the good taste and discrimination shown in his collection which has proved useful to many lovers of poetry...
...Stevenson had, fiction...
...Here, Galsworthy is not so much On the title page of his mystery story, Father Knox has the satirist, as the social philosopher, for his society satirizes quoted from Gaboriau this bit of advice for provoking mystery itself...
...She laughs and mocks seen it, it's still a mystery...
...The younger Adams was of more philosophical our republic would soon be lost in an aristocracy, and what is temper...
...the same mistake that Huxley and the Victorian agnostics made All his life, M. Jourdain had talked prose without knowing in the field of morals-that is, he knocked away the props of it...
...Patience is the only remedy...
...cheapness, and positive silliness...
...After this stirring event [Mr...
...In him a sense of self-preservation is lacking...
...but the presence of all three quickly produces tion of peace...
...2.00...
...and there- Catholic readers has a much greater general appeal...
...When Blanche admits her fundamental weakness, she does so in an unforgettable sentence : "What I find Price, $2.00 is this," she tells an English priest...
...Whereas, however, the Catholic scholar has been content to let the facts speak for themselves, the Anglican author gives vent to his intensely Protestant animus on every page, almost in every sentence...
...Burlingame offers a straightforward account of the "And time remembered is grief forgotten, rise of a modern business woman from her humble beginning And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, of peddling pastry to the residents of the summer colony near And in green underwood and cover her home till she is a famous restaurateur in New York with Blossom by blossom the spring begins...
...The Genesis narrative "contains a great of man in the vision of the divine essence...
...The irony of Father Knox and have to wait for the children of Michael and Fleur to sur- his admirably written narrative, with its human interest, repass their parents and bring flux into orderly movement...
...story...
...Love of Irish culture, literature, and of mental twist which causes absolute lack of historical permusic especially fostered...
...touched on by the author are fundamental, but never are they 'This feature of our organization accounts to a large extent for the long list of representative concerns that have uninteresting...
...but the "Come down and redeem us from virtue, Our Lady of Pain," defect of Swinburne was not in his head but in his heart...
...In this, as in other books on the subject, there is a sort 11th and Throop Streets, LONGWOOD, CHICAGO, ILL...
...Bound up with this theme has been his exposition in London at the close of the eighteenth century-Copley, of the relationship between the individual and the institutions West, Trumbull, Samuel Morse and their circle, who seem of society-particularly the family...
...most amicable kind...
...He remains convinced that Pro- today...
...The Silver Spoon, in spite of believing what seems incredible...
...not say...
...entertaining...
...If they rent a house in Seville, or rooms in habit, rewarded by the especial favor of Doctor Grosart...
...It moves this book, like that of Chesterton, from the banality of looks as though he would have to wait upon time before con- this overworked type of fiction...
...Finally, the impeccable intelligence task imposed upon the first ministers-plenipotentiary sent by of Heywood Broun : "Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates have been the young republic to the Court of St...
...Here, certainly, is ammunition for text or provocation whatsoever, commits political hara-kiri...
...by battling manfully with his own tedium, has succeeded in ,3...
...in its various forms, a recurring obstacle to the full it, and regard the prospect of its ever taking root in America flowering of his tradition...
...her spirit then as it did afterward, and had done throughout "Will you ask Santa Claus to bring me a little sword, because her life...
...the account that, had the process gone one step further, Swinburne would have drunk milk out of a feeding-bottle like one Portia 161arries, by Jeanette Phillips Gibbs...
...The There is a new introduction and a new romantic impulse burned more brightly in her than in anyone index...
...What existence and believes that recent discoveries, so far from excluding God and the spiritual world, in moments of insight, requires explanation is, not the view that these matters are part of the province of religion, but the view that they are not...
...and especially in that bed-rock of conservatism, the law, have The days dividing lover and lover, not vet cleared all the hurdles that time and custom have The light that loses, the night that wins...
...Le secret d'ennuyer est de tout dire...
...It ought not to be Flower has made, come out of the aristocratic life of Ireland reformed again...
...I am an abject slavey...
...Gibbs, as indicated in her title, has taken for her heroine Time, practically the only poem of Swinburne's that sprang a woman lawyer, and recounts her successful combination of a out of a genuine experience, these things come...
...Supporters of the to get a more balanced view of Irish society in the sixteenth religious revolution of the sixteenth century are powerless to and seventeenth centuries...
...In the face of social differences from which they had book gets the entire reverse side of the jacket-and John emancipated themselves, they had to convey, courteously but Dewey's portrait covers a full page, and the exposition of unmistakably, that such things (so far as they were concerned John Dewey's philosophy, ten pages of the text...
...1926 Directory of Swinburne, by Harold Nicolson...
...holds the reader...
...Father Brown has a penchant for "the worship of the Virgin Mary" would then hopelessly delving into the mysterious and displays keen complicate his liturgical tasks...
...Doubtless, too, he enjoys the paradox of his priest In this travail of society, Fleur is the darling of tradition...
...Assuming the mantle of a literary unique in a professional philosopher...
...For instance, we read of about Father Brown-and those readers num"each sentence" in the litany "being sung one hundred times," ber tens of thousands-will welcome heartily the Ordinary of the Mass is described as its "variable parts," this new series of stories in which the keenand, worst of all, we are asked to imagine "the difficulty of witted jovial priest plays the part of Sherlock the priest during the month of May" on the assumption that Holmes...
...Feet that feel reborn...
...JOHN M. KENNY, JR...
...He states as emphatically as tune that occasionally, writers of excellent style, such as Mr...
...but I have . . . avoided reproducing any real one...
...Frankfort and Jacob Streets, New York City we can rely to carry the work to completion...
...inseparable, but, as he tells us, economics was but a subdivision As to the physical universe, the processes of the consolida- of ethics and ethics itself a part of theology...
...e! seek: What, oh what to do...
...Chesterton has always pendent woman who held her own...
...Those who have a slight knowledge of, but a great interest in, Irish literature, THE AMERICAN IN ENGLAND often ask: "How can one get close to the originals that form the groundwork of James Stephens's and Lady Gregory's famous During the First Half Century o f stories...
...And our at least) no longer applied...
...College of Saint Elizabeth MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY (P...
...and enough nimble-witted chaffing is passed round A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL to assure even the most pessimistic that lecturers-at least Yale FOR BOYS lecturers-are perennially human...
...In passing it might be said that most else I know...
...And now I read this fine, less occasions they had to insist upon a recognition of facts fresh book, and it's all as exciting as a news report of a first- which Britain accorded with a very bad grace...
...Beauty in the guise of The most interesting passages in Mr...
...Her attempt to found a salon on the highly amusing...
...Father Pyne writes in the preface : "To carry on the work BURR PRINTING HOUSE of construction, we require a master-builder, one upon whom Cor...
...Evidence, however, liturgical or other- metrical sense that comes from an appreciation of Gaelic poetry...
...In this modern instance, for a brief span, old ing of Elkanah Watson, author of Men and Times of the Soames had all three desirables in his snug and complacent life Revolution] the two hurried back to the studio and painted of orderly acquiring of worldly acquistions, when his security the American flag to the mast of the ship, `the first American was endangered by the appearance of a "disturbing beauty flag hoisted in old England.' " impinging on a possessive world...
...The Relation Between Science and Theology, by C. Stuart ELEVATORS Lager...
...Then But a careful perusal of the first essay, on Plato, makes one a long series of anecdotes about Voltaire-amusing enough, but hesitate to join in the general chorus of delighted welcome...
...The mind," he writes, "is the soul as the sub- RINTING ject of some, and the primary principle of all, of the powers by whose activity consciousness is produced...
...loved doctors better than poeticules...
...19 Union Square W. New York, N. Y. GEORGE D. MEADOWS...
...on the planet, and to undergo the rejection, the torture, the Martin Luther, indeed, remained in the stream of mediaeval death which were in store for a Being higher than the sons of tradition in his economic conclusions, but he was guilty of men could understand...
...through scores of years with the minute accuracy of a chronThe high spirits continue through the era of postmistressing icler...
...Father Knox amuses himself with the efforts bloomed into his generosity to Fleur...
...It is the custom to dismiss Swinburne's work x„ xn nor m n«„„mix x..x„xx~~n.nx...
...Durant's discussion of Aristotle and his scien- Of course, in such a work as this, it is far better to dig deeply tific system, of Spinoza and his ethics, of Kant and his critiques, in small plots than to scratch acres with a niggling pen-point...
...Tawney puts us on our speaking in the language of Catholic theology...
...But to any A COLLEGE FOR WOMEN student of Saint Thomas, the wonder will grow why the (Also for girls who want to be treated like women) author did not make more use of his master...
...Wells's Outline of Bacon we get chiefly an analysis of the casual Essays and History has given birth...
...Trade marked: PEDIFORME FREE CATALOG -Send name and address for complete catalog showing all late styles and a fund of information ow foot-ills and their corrections...
...And it is difficult for a modern Order from reader to see anything in Swinburne but the virtuoso...
...In a defiant explanation of herself, she says: "Money, money, money, it's the only thing in the world ! . . . Hard...
...some scholastics as well...
...placed for them, but much of Mrs...
...but the gusto and cation, such as, continuation into high school, gaiety that made his study of Tennyson so notable were length of high school courses, etc., are included...
...Head Master) then the sensuous faculties, and finally thought and volition...
...praised...
...On such occasions, the talent of marked that Michael Mont, who married Seames's daughter, such men refurbish a hackneyed story form...
...mental acumen in the solution of these mysHague, May devotions, which have never in the least affected teries and in tolerantly divesting his detached sinners of their sins...
...The past and present is thrown into sharp relief by and suspense : "In the matter of information, above all, regard Soames, a man who lives by ideas, as compared to contemporary with suspicion that which seems probable...
...accept as many as he could...
...High-school students will find deserves more space than Jesus Christ, he is entitled to his opinion...
...Only a man familiar with Latins could have written this adMany things that had been hoped for-adventure, travel, mirable description: "In spite of his excellent education, Prince imaginative freedom-never came to pass for reasons which Roccapalumba had absorbed little knowledge, nor did he greatly Miss Guiney stated in a rare moment of confidence: "What- care for arts and letters...
...Durant's omissions calls for some very non that this 6oo-page book, a collection of essays on the hard sayings...
...Thousands of Americans, whose ranks included diplomats, The transcendent mentality of our critics is sufficiently dis- consular representatives, merchants, students, and mere sightplayed on the publishers' jacket...
...For ironically again, Soames and Michael, upon the turns of plot...
...Portsmouth School-Portsmouth, R. 1. One of the fine traits of this book is the relation it shows between the soul and the mind...
...illuminates clearly the pseudo-supernatural...
...entirely to the care of his maiden-aunt, Watts-Dunton-made Hence, too, the exquisite hopelessness of The Garden of the ossification, with the appearance of each of the later vol- Proserpine: umes, painfully apparent...
...Y. Times...
...And in all justice, it must be admitted ceeded to damn them all so cleverly...
...Neither the book Great Britain during the last quarter of the eighteenth and nor its reception indicates the slightest urge to come to grips first of the nineteenth centuries makes fascinating reading...
...Ask for Style Book K. PEDIFORME SHOE CO...
...Extensive Campus, field hockey, basket-ball, tennis, etc...
...That warfare in one form or prevent another in the twentieth, indeed they cannot even try another was pretty constant during these centuries is evident, to do so with any appearance of consistency...
...But the gether by a unity of idea...
...0. Address Convent Station) A Catholic college for women, registered by the New York State University, and the New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Boards of Education...
...This is back in history than the period out of which Love's Bitter not to say that he is that seldom-born genius, the epic poet...
...Hague's DODD, MEAD & COMPANY rather childish argument, is not the presence of a separate PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Bible and hymn-books in Anglican churches, not to mention separate copies of occasional musical selections, a hopelessly 502 THE COMMONWEAL September 29, 1926 mediaeval state of things...
...confesses itself...
...It is not the crossing and re-crossing By SIR BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE of their lives-indicated by the title-which interests and Author of "The Church and Science," etc...
...2.00...
...a Fifth Avenue establishment, and married to the rich admirer Swinburne was under the unfortunate necessity of shocking who had backed her courage and ability with his money...
...New York: Benziger Brothers...
...ANOVEL 700 pages long is not the anomaly it ought to be...
...of backlash at the Church, as being really responsible for this Accredited Boarding and Day School for Girls lamentable delay in making scientific discoveries...
...The locale and the characters are of variety of Fundamentalism...
...Glowing . . . excellent . . . enlightening . . . Take my sword, 0 Fergus...
...He meets Susan again at the height of her success, but their points of view are so widely separated that they part...
...Or is there any way whereby the energy now being surprised to hear that mediaeval Europe-especially in its fulldegraded to a level where no work can be affected, may again est intellectual flowering in the great scholastics-possessed a be brought under working conditions...
...The painstaking scholarship of the details may be demonstrated by the frequent references to second- press, and public...
...The theme of loyalties has been prevalent in Galsworthy's There is an interesting chapter on the American art colony writing...
...They had class trial in the Criminal Courts Building...
...He was, one felt, more intelligent than he had a right to be...
...Henry have again) to read an actual and uncensored record of how Hazlitt : "I fear that this volume will never be used as a text- England and Englishmen struck Americans...
...It is, at any rate, war between Ulaidh and the four-fifths of Ireland...
...Index and list of ning of his volume: "Whatever the world thinks, he who hath books consulted...
...mained throughout his life the essential stimulus: there was Only the sleep eternal no stimulus after 1857 that became really essential...
...Born into a family whose poverty and incompetence bred in her a determination to rise in the world, she was ruthless in her business relations...
...tinuing his new series...
...The theology of never loses sight of the actual Irish scene nor sense of the Cranmer is the flag nailed to the masthead of his Anglican actual Irish character...
...It is the grace of sentiment, the distinction of style, the undercurrent of religious feeling-ennobling even A brief history of the important religious when ineffectual-and the skilful contrasting of nationalities epoch and a directory of the personages concerned, together with statements made which lend value to the ruthlessly protracted tale...
...Hence ures in the biographies (even in this one) as the villain of his great cry the piece...
...T HE critics have had their say regarding the excellence and the limitations of Joyce Kilmer's anthology, Dreams and Images, published in 1917 amid the stress and disorders in which the brilliant young editor and poet gave his life for his country...
...Address Secretary...
...Sinzon and Schuster...
...Even into The Triumph of Mrs...
...T. LAWRASON RIGGS...
...J. HUGH DIMAN, O.S.B...
...Jubilant references to the to fall in love, and they invariably fall in love with persons seventeenth century multiply...
...Their alternatives were two-fold...
...thriller...
...Good relations with the great one must know why Kant never married, in order to appear the western republic became the unsleeping concern of parliament, complete cosmopolite...
...No doubt, women in careers, And all the season of snows and sins...
...Life is not guard against fitting our history to some pet theory or modern one of the forms of energy, it is sui generis...
...The author's remarks on the ancient British Church, so These, and about sixteen short poems make up a collection dear to Anglican controversialists, are likewise significant...
...It is a continuance of the married life of Fleur and Michael Mont that began in The White Audubon, the naturalist, is shocked at perceiving beggars on Monkey...
...Instead of a drawing-room battle of So though these stories have a wide range from Europe to wits-caused by this slur-their difference is taken to court and South America and to the United States, they are bound toa technical victory won by Fleur in the suit for libel...
...The plots are both the missal and breviary, were originated by Roman Jesuits in startling and ingenuous and their development the eighteenth century, and could therefore scarcely have to an effective end is accomplished through bothered the hypothetical mediaeval priest...
...The abundance of examples proves the Catalogs, Magazines, Books, Commercial Printing fine mental digestion the author has for abstract principles...
...Gibbs's story reads like the old-fashioned pre-war brand of feminist propaganda...
...Those who know Unitarianism, commingled with the strange wine of a revamped only a little about it are inclined to think of Gaelic literature mediaevalism, will surely burst the bottle of our Anglican in Ireland as developing in isolation from other literatures...
...Cat's Cradle, by Maurice Baring...
...The essence of everything is lost country to Americans was the half century which imme- in ceremony," observes the elder after his first reception by diately followed its separation from the British empire...
...They set a thing up in broad daylight, and when you've experimenting with her own talent...
...From this time on, statesmen in Great Britain sound American business men : even the smart New Yorker seem to have awakened to the dangers into which hauteur and recommends it to its fashionable customers...
...Walter H. Page, was formed...
...Yet he gave the impression of culever fire was originally in me has died out for lack of a flue...
...The new wine of a revived Arianism or in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...
...may surprise those who have identified psychology with a study of the subconscious or the abnormal, it will nevertheless de- Six Years' Course College Preparatory light those who know the traditional treatment of this science...
...will there be crusades, wars, pageants, dog-Latin and bad sanitation, may be an end...
...From the moment," says merchant Joshua E. by a dignified detachment, and more implied than stated com- White, of Savannah, "that we see such places as Manchester ment...
...And it is interesting history of their Church's official worship entitles them to the to see how an art and an attitude which were created in the name of Catholic...
...The Opens Sept...
...He regards prose poem in the literature of his century...
...Swollen, sweaty feet that reekWear the sh, oes and the e wise banished ones pique...
...Hague admits, has his entire approval, while Stuart absolutism, favoring the High Church views of Laud and his school, is a horse of a very different and far less The Incredulity of Father Brown pleasing color...
...That this lofty truth-man's disobedience to the higher light within him," principle was not always kept sight of in financial and comwith a further threatening of a death of the soul-"a falling mercial practice, that the thirst for wealth led to abuses away from grace...
...Intensive courses open to students preparing for the teaching profession...
...Hague's Low Church sympathizers might well prefer to have his history less constantly interlarded with pastoral exhortation...
...5o6 THE COMMONWEAL September 29, 1926 as being all sound and no sense...
...Guido's intelligence bodes ill for his lovely young wife, and the ruse by which he succeeds in shutting her away from the WHO'S WHO OF THE world is more dramatic than credible...
...I T would seem to be a miraculous and encouraging phenome- The subject of Dr...
...And yet there was a time when Evolution and Creation, by Sir Oliver Lodge...
...Even life, science, and social service as Lord Mayor Wood, Owen, their honest prejudices, so much in line with all our republic Bentham, and Cartwright...
...Cat's Cradle begins with the Franco-Prussian war, and ends with the world war...
...New York: Harper SHAEMAS and Brothers...
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...To the High but it is also evident that there were men then who had the Churchmen of Dr...
...For further information, apply to The author has closely followed Aristotle's treatise on the Very Rev...
...But unfortunately we absorbed it before CARDINAL NEWMAN we were civilized...
...Nicolson fairly conclusively demonstrates, sins he celebrated impossible-pathetically impossible-to him...
...Here at last is a book that has told me what I always contacts, we have a chance (which we shall probably never wanted to know and never could quite discover...
...There were many changes and additions to be made in Dreams and Images, which would surely have been effected had Joyce Kilmer survived the great war, but in his place the publishers have made the wise selection of Shaemas O'Sheel to bring the volume up to date and to remedy some of the unfortunate omissions...
...EDWIN CLARK...
...procure, and they are By ROBERT E. SPILLER for students rather than for the ordinary reader...
...of conviction equal to that of the Reformers, but with less Love's Bitter Sweet is a collection of poems translated from excuse for his illusions than they had...
...Even Mr...
...The sea, the sun and wind," writes "Then star nor sun shall waken, Mr...
...But the last paragraphs of the book the Reformation and was largely conditioned by that moveenlighten us...
...But a good many years must pass before we ing his leisure preferably with such prominent figures in civic can definitely pronounce their misgivings unfounded...
...In this work says: "The criticism which dismisses the concern of little book, he finds himself impressed by the majesty of churches with economic relations and social organization as a modern innovation, finds little support in past history...
...It is And what of man...
...His treatment of the revolutionary and essential changes in doctrine and worship, made possible by the separation from Rome, foreshadowed The "Father Brown" Stories by the vernacular litany of 1545, reaching a climax of Protestantism in the Second Prayer-Book of 1552, and substantially retained through subsequent revisions, is an accurate presentation of indisputable historical fact...
...Why, to follow out Dr...
...perfect attitude...
...Take my shield, 0 King...
...He scarcely sees fit to mention, except in laconic the swift pursuit of wealth and power in motor cars, accom- disdain, the Stoics and Epicureans, Christ and Saint Paul, panied by jazz bands playing mother-songs, has at length ar- Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, the neo-Platonists and Saint rived at a reflective stage and is beginning to take stock of its Augustine, the Scholastics, Scotus Erigena and Abelard, Saint accomplishments and aims-to wonder just where it is going: Thomas Aquinas-briefly, the whole Christian ethics...
...It is not too much to say that anyone in hand sources, and to a quotation from Carlyle, referred to that public life who attempts to disturb them today, on any prewriter's Past and Present...
...He treated formal ceremony," Mr...
...5.oo...
...States, just as his vogue and popularity in the older country Such is the make-up of human existence that it is possible to seemed assured...
...Burlingame's characters are but a shadow of reality...
...It is bland and civilized as real murderer, because his motive for committing the crime he relentlessly pursues old Soames, whose hard egoism has seems so obvious...
...Hague completely agrees with Leo XIII that By the distinguished author of Anglican clergymen have ceased to be priests in the Catholic "Heretics," "Orthodoxy," "The sense...
...We are asked to picture the scene during the preparation of the Second Prayer-Book as follows: "There is upon each face a look of earnest resolve, deep and strong...
...Nicolson's R OGER BURLINGAME who once did a devastating theory of the union in Swinburne of "the instinct of self-asser- satire on the advertising business, You Too, and Jeanette tion" and the instinct of "self-abasement" being the real essence Phillips Gibbs, the newest of the Gibbs family to take to of his genius...
...Nearly all detest for him...
...Mediaeval worship, according to him, was little better than a jumble of unintelligible mummery and corrupt doctrine...
...Three valuable maps...
...Be that as it may, this work has a genuine mission Military Training in Small Boy's Dept...
...He confines himself, consequently, to the unable to eat Dr...
...Baring is a candid writer...
...smells strong of the middle-ages, and put cotton-wool in my Baring introduces us to the society of libertines...
...Such volumes are difficult to...
...At the outset, Mr...
...Its craft on the above idea, attempt to solve a mysterious murder...
...Here the men to whom this noble teaching was addressed robbed and one begins to wonder what exact meaning the writer attaches cheated, proves only that they were men...
...This strange assortment re- Nor days nor things diurnal...
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...It is an odd reflection upon Christianity that this this hobby for diversion will not be taken too seriously by colorless, withal pleasant, but wishy-washy character should remarking that he didn't "know if it is necessary to say, of be a synonym...
...We find a complete unconsciousness...
...That has all gone...
...New York: Henry From the two Adamses, as one would expect, we get the Holt and Company...
...is that of Galsworthy's usual detachment-but its spirit has They build up an improbable, yet persuasive case against the not the perfect detachment that was behind The Forsyte Saga...
...twas my One Park Avenue New York grandsire's mother wrought it for her son...
...Robin was reformed...
...The old Gaelic conception of educa- an invention, like the "eppur se muove," which Galileo did tion, "fosterage...
...spective, and invite the reader's astonishment that the sixteenth For catalogue, write JOHN X. REGAN, M.A...
...Gibbs has gone no deeper than the clear, white skin of her Jane Thorndyke...
...Anonymity is like a rose-water bath unpleasant Roman prince (one feels that her father must have for me...
...ately "joshing" his creation on the Sherlock Holmes pattern To Michael, as to Soames, Fleur is beauty-a disturbing ele- and the whole influence of the wide interest in the detective ment to orderly concepts, but one before which they serve...
...Nicolson, "had been absorbed in childhood ; with Eton Nor any change of light: came Sophocles, Sappho, The Birds of Aristophanes, Catullus, Nor sound of waters shaken, the Elizabethans, Landor, Hugo, Mary Queen of Scots...
...of a certain time and habit of American civilization...
...courteous old gentleman to a roast leg of mutton and the THEODORE MAYNARD...
...We glean the and secured by the industrial revolution of the Victorian era...
...There noteworthy that the existence of Catholic Eucharistic doctrine are two other poems that are out of the older literaturelong before the middle-ages should be granted...
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