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October 6, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 53 BOOK S The Young Delinquent, by Cyril...
...In 1922 it had risen to $29.18...
...period and since, there have been considerable outlays of capi- Illustrated...
...Perugia of living...
...Boston: Arthur Waley's translation with the original Japanese, all Houghton Mifflin Company...
...one turned to the tale itself, it is highly probable that he fell GLADYS CHANDLER GRAHAM...
...in fact, to all who are concerned with the problems of the The treatment aspect of the various types of delinquency is younger generation...
...As a matter of we have selected four books for discussion here, are comfact, it seems to be a little of each...
...Another comparison that should be made, but which Pro- IIII!!IIIIIItll~lllllll!Illllhlllllllllllllll!IICnIIII~IIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIInilfll!!!luIIIIIIIIII!!!II!!NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIII!IIIIIII!!NIIIIII!!IIIIIIIIII!III!nlllllllllllllllllllllllll~llllluu° fessor Anderson does not include, is the relative per capita r, wealth...
...His activities, his friendships, and his memories he has set forth in his autobiography with gusto and INSTITUTE OF HOLY ANGELS, Fort Lee, N.1...
...Real and Other Essays of Italy Expense...
...an artist...
...Three Studios Open to ROBERT R. HULL...
...Florence: The Soul of Tuscany purchase...
...Political Economy...
...Art, in its very nature, is unmoral...
...Love of Irish culture, literature, and rest of the cost of production is to be borne by the publishing music especially fostered...
...He knows that nothing is reversible...
...Zug der Hitherto Discovered U Gestalten-which means something like a "pageant of figures" -contains one of the best essays I have ever read about Franz Universities" Liszt, and a very informing as well as attractive study of Camille Desmoulins...
...and scenes as delicately and sharply outlined as a Japanese stencil...
...The with his explanation that her insight along these lines was conflict between religion and pagan opposition is portrayed, not "owing to the accident that mediaeval Buddhism possessed cer- only as an element of the early Christian era, but also as a October 6, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 535 clash of forces continuing through time...
...J. HUGH DIMAN, O.S.B...
...the Self-help, farming...
...Kempten: Josef enthusiasm for this feminine portrayal of the Japanese Don Kosel'sche Buchhandlung...
...There has been an increase in the cost of govern- CONTENTS ment, but so has there been in the cost of living, and the cost I. Assisi of Saint Francis of government responds to exactly the same causes as the cost II...
...He has loved Bronx, New York City the classics and yet that has not inhibited him from battling Conducted by MARIST BROTHERS for Wagner, and in later years for Debussy and the modern Frenchmen...
...The old Gaelic conception of educaat which it is sold, he says-and a mere glance at the volume tion, "fosterage...
...Burt, "is assignable to no single Natural Theology...
...and though he may lead a revolutionary party, Our Higher Schools, by the REV...
...It is good because of the intensifica4849 Grand Central Terminal, New York, N. Y. tion of feeling it produces in its votaries-its hard, unyielding enthusiasms...
...JOHN RICKABY, S.J...
...During the same Italy a story of rare beauty...
...and spiritual atmosphere of the home and its neighborhood 55 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK that is found to be most significant...
...JAMES U he is never motivated by the doctrines of any party...
...it is as a pioneer and educaNereid (238th St...
...Briefly summarized, the theme of an isolated Freudian in the Japan of her period...
...JOSEPH RICKABY, S.J., B.Sc...
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...count as a part of the normal cost of government...
...court and the discovery of Genji's intrigue with Princess George Terremare, a younger Viennese writer, uses the career Oborozukiyo make necessary Genji's fleeing the palace into of Saint Jeanne as the basis for a carefully written historical voluntary exile...
...By the Rev...
...It is conceivable This feature of our organization accounts to a large extent for the long list of representative concerns that have that much of the Franciscan spirit breathes in a man who can continued to send us their printing orders for many years...
...That of the laws governing boyhood life...
...children will find this an inspiring and illuminating study...
...It was the least civilized of all centuries...
...Frideswide's at and reactionary parties, but they are all revolutionists...
...Programs of reform are Theodore Maynard urgently presented and he who would scoff at reform in city THE AMERICAN COLLEGE AND CATHOLIC EDUCATION affairs, as well as in any public affairs, is either ignorant of W. F. Cunningham, C.S.C...
...By the Rev...
...try...
...Greater intelligence of com- Daniel J. Connor, S. T. L. munity work must be acquired somehow by the citizenship...
...And the myths which we of today consider as having been entirely destroyed by science, the sys- U tem of Ptolemy, for instance-did these prevent Greek civili- We assume that you are educated by books U zation from attaining the most decisive and harmonious equili- or life-even by both...
...Crime," concludes Mr...
...532 THE COMMONWEAL October 6, 1926 The author would place a larger responsibility upon the ern psychology into every-day popular language without any school for the training of the conduct and character of the sacrifice of accuracy...
...However, the author emphasizes Crown 8vo, $3.00...
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...Thus measured in real expense for IX...
...Artists may even belong to retrograde Rosemont College at Rosemont, Pa., St...
...The greatest religions have been the St...
...introvert, the audacious street urchin, the overindulged child, Exhaustive, also, is the author's consideration of spare-time the weakling, the subnormal, and the gifted child-are considactivities...
...The papers dealing suc- Our working force is composed of trained men, selected cessively with Siena, Florence, Bologna, and Ravenna recount ecause of their ability and willingness to make extreme all the most essential information, but rarely give a fresh per- efforts to satisfy our customers...
...By the Rev...
...Florence: Vallecchi...
...tion of the recently widely exploited subconscious plays a large Petrus is the most recent play by Ilse von Stach, whose part in this novel of the eleventh century and has led critics achievement as a poet, a playwright and a novelist has merited to conceive of Lady Murasaki as an artistic freak of time, international attention...
...The first charm of dis- mendable particularly for what they have accomplished in covery is gone: that rather perverse charm which defied the the field of belles-lettres...
...G. H. JOYCE, S.J., his study of the temperamental conditions of the delinquent...
...and it, too, will build its temples after victory...
...These artists founded great religions because the religions have left great monuments...
...The child, with no adequate standard of experience, the preadolescent, The Gang Age should be of particular informs an altogether distorted opinion of the adult social life terest to recreational leaders, parents, social workers, teachers and manners...
...Though his book lacks the drama which Schiller's during this time, fill most of the book, which closes with Genji's play draws from rapidly narrated and closely packed events triumphant return to court when his son is proclaimed emperor...
...so on...
...for using Catholic terms to describe heathen rituals...
...Thus, if the city provides free hospitals, the individual is relieved to a considerable degree of the WILFRID PARSONS, S.J...
...The only faith SUMMIT, N. J. Resident and Day Pupils they have is "an unformulated and monstrous faith in the inCampus of 12 Acres on One of Summit's Highest Points difference of God...
...Give your boy a chance, educate him in an Irish environIn his introduction, the publisher, in all modesty, offers ment and he will love and bring honor to his name and race...
...Oxon...
...RICHARD F. CLARKE, S.J...
...However, the most unique feature of this work is, not the Introduction by Padraic Colum intensive study of a delinquent group of 197 children, but the fact that parallel with this study, the author has studied a group of 40o non-delinquent school-children in the same neigh- $1.75 at all Booksellers borhood...
...By the Rev...
...publication a notable event in this great year...
...Six year course...
...In Fair Verona increased fully 75 percent...
...The Newman Club Movement will be disThere is no progress anywhere except in the field of indus- U cussed in a challenging paper by the Rev...
...This might be due to either of two Zug der Gestalten, by Karl Linzen...
...Delin- their attitude towards life and in their relation quency, according to the author, is nothing but an outstand- to one another...
...Frankfort and Jacob Streets, New York Cit ders if anybody will find much that is original in it hk...
...U Our Bicameral Colleges, by BURGES JOHNLife, to the author of this well-written book, is simply a U soN, is a brave and pertinent discussion of U struggle for self-expression...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...The artist will accept J. Elliot Ross, of Columbia University, U any myth as plastic material on which to work rather than which has been awaited with a keen interest U rationalism...
...A little more salt might have given it a little more Secretarial Department, Elementary School flavor, and it is certainly not of the school of Lytton Strachey...
...LESLIE J. WALKER, S.J., M.A...
...Head Master) The Stratford Company...
...My It was compared most favorably with everything literary from reason for doing so is that the outward forms of mediaeval the One Thousand and One Nights to La Recherche du Buddhism stand much nearer to Catholicism than to the paler Temps Perdu...
...He "creates, develops . . . undermines...
...3.00- But they cannot afford to miss the following T HE "new fundamentalism," which frankly breaks with articles-to appear soon-which treat of edu- U rationalism and the theory of eternal progress, has already cation sanely, without catering to the double- U produced its law and gospel...
...porarily at least, and an impression of unwieldly length hangs One welcomes the absence of esoteric diction and suggestionominously over the whole...
...out its physiology...
...It is vage and reconstruct the precious human material placed under not the function of a modern text-book to be a volume of rehis observation...
...Special advantages in Music and Art...
...44 Blackburn Road, Phone Summit 1804 The artist may join a party, but he is constitutionally apart from all parties...
...Furfey, "seeks to throw a light a way as to encourage the study of the business of city governon the influences which modify the character of a boy, par- ment as a practical tool for the citizen...
...tremendous amount of preventive work which could be accom- The various types of boy personality-the extrovert, the plished by trained social workers in every elementary school...
...The The editor of AMERICA speaks plainly and arrest- defeated write the most poignant music...
...A College Preparatory Boarding School for boys...
...Even his careful English is never bold...
...collection of exquisite vignettes of characters and emotions JOHN A. LAPP...
...The encouragement and direction reader to say whether it arose from the utter unfamiliarity offered by them to Catholic writers during the past twenty of this oriental elegant who lived and sang a thousand years years have enabled these confidently to take their places side ago, or from his almost startling contemporaneity...
...Just what is his position...
...translated from the Japanese by Arthur Waley...
...Idem...
...An array strange exotic thing in itself...
...The cities must pay wages commensurate with the III...
...He reBURNS, C.S.C., former President of Notre U jects all dogmas, the dogmas of the radicals as well as the Dame University, is a frank statement of the dogmas of the conservatives...
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...Nothing is certain...
...Revolution is U merely a change of symbols, never of substance...
...Enda's, Dublin its origin...
...It Catalogs, Magazines, Books, Commercial Printing is all pleasant to gaze on that old city beneath you, and follow the windings of the Savena and the Reno and the little Aposa...
...and the fourteenth or fifteenth year of a boy's life...
...Human energy is increased and transferred by heredity...
...Every line is written was Carlyle's carefully framed opinion of his U by a man who knows life as well as he does art and letters...
...In 62 percent of the cases no delinquency has occurred, pages, bearing on all conceivable problems of the preadolescent...
...He has written it frankly for the general public, with no private Ladycliff Academy ax to grind, and no scores to pay off...
...Irish atmosphere...
...The nouncement on an important subject by the nineteenth century...
...The artist is, therefore, going on outside...
...The main source of harm is keenly analyzed...
...The idea that human personality is built up students in colleges...
...Who can tell the cost in blood and Price Five Cents treasure of the "promised land" ? It is wrested by the stronger from the weaker nation...
...and Murdock Aves...
...of Genji, appears, and the welcoming chorus has become noticeably pianissimo...
...too narrow...
...In only 2 percent of the cases have results been wholly dis- EDWIN J. COOLEY...
...universal source, nor yet to two or three...
...Stories permeated with true ing sample, dangerous perhaps in the extreme, but none the spirituality and not a little gentle humor...
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...of great moment, or which Shaw derives from a swift impact But the story, in any sense of continuity, in Murasaki's work of contrasted ideas, it is both interesting and beautiful...
...Tragor Catholic College edy is the answer to the world riddle: it produces beautiful By WILFRID PARSONS, S. J. things in both the victors and the defeated...
...28th, 1926...
...If, however, the sceptical back to the still less appropriate terminology of Anglicanism...
...scrupulous intrigue, wild emotionalism, and cheap sentimental- As a constructive, illuminating treatise on the problems of ity...
...Everything that moves wishes to the battle between the class-room and what is U express itself, to dramatize its ego...
...Arthur this extensive and thoughtful verse-drama is the part played Waley pricks this bubble of fantasy in his The Art of Murasaki by the first apostle in the construction of the Church...
...the fact that it is not the external aspects of the home which exercise the most powerful influence, but rather it is the moral LONGMANS, GREEN & CO...
...causes: an actual decline in the second volume or merely an- T HE German publishers from among whose recent issues other case of "something too much of this...
...of the campus paths or hot foes of the Prexy...
...Subscription-Five Dollars a Year The most needed thing in the study of government, and THE AMERICA PRESS especially of city government, is a proper and wholesome point 4849 Grand Central Terminal, New York, N. Y. of view...
...feeling...
...get little comfort from the scientific treatment found in this Assistant Professor of English in the College of the City of New York chapter...
...The cases examined have One of the most valuable features of the book is the inbeen under supervision and observation from three to ten clusion of an exhaustive bibliography, covering twenty-four years...
...Extensive Campus, field hockey, basket-ball, tennis, etc...
...Burt has followed McDougall's theories of instincts in Principles of Logic...
...He disproves the theory that the cinema contributes ered, and the behavior problems typical of these types are largely to juvenile delinquency...
...Assisi leads the array...
...5.oo...
...The total per capita wealth of the United States in 1912 was $19.50...
...Memorable, too, is ~IIIII/VIII/Iiill/VIII/VIII/VIII/11111/VIII/VIII/VIII/VIII/VIII/VIII/VIII/VIII/VIII/11111/11111/11111/11111/Illu the artistry with which the difficult subject is treated...
...The results of the study appear in twenty-two tables wherein are enumerated and compared those factors which D. APPLETON AND COMPANY appeared in the lives of both groups and in one resulted in delinquency, while in the other had no serious untoward effects...
...A. W. G. RANDALL...
...which the citizen most needs to know and to present it in such "This study," states Dr...
...This volume is the first of a projected series of three which aim to consider the three OF HAPPINESS major forms of juvenile subnormality: first, those who are subnormal intellectually ; second, those who are subnormal emotionally...
...G. H. and converging influences...
...Rationalism is the worst lie of all...
...is convincing-represents no more than the cost of paper...
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...Reformation," was the artist-interpreter of the middle-ages...
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...In what U respect are they [the "certain results" of modern science] more verifiable, in what respect are they more true than the Other articles, by prominent educators and myth of Genesis, for example, by which a whole people was U men interested in the colleges from outside nourished in order to elaborate in them notions on which we U their walls, are in preparation...
...appointing...
...But of its kind it is very good indeed...
...ought to be in the homes of the people who care about public All in all, The Tale of Genji, for occidentals at least, will affairs...
...the natural leader of the people...
...so widely echoed today...
...The book very properly gives due attention to the analysis The value of Dr...
...by a few as a skeleton in a museum, but the study must be CATHOLICISM AND PESSIMISM general among those who control the destiny of the city-the Robert H. Hull people themselves...
...New social is its general outlook, that all persons working with York: Henry Holt and Company...
...center around the family life...
...The increase per capita amounted to about 50 percent...
...It should be realized that such a book is not solely for Europe today...
...New York: D. Life in an American Appleton and Company...
...Siena times, and must pay the prevailing prices for things that they IV...
...Wickham has assumed, is an appropriate occasion for the publication of a series of essays about Italian cities...
...It is slightly shorter than the well-known standard text of Antonio Cesari, PORTSMOUTH SCHOOL but all the essentials of the great spiritual classic are here, PORTSMOUTH, R. 1. (Eight miles north of Newtort) there is only occasional verbal condensation, and if I add that the whole volume is lavishly illustrated with woodcuts, repro- To be opened by the Benedictine Fathers of the English Congregation, Sept...
...Moreover, this increase, if analyzed further, would be disclosed His interpretations of the Umbrian hills and other places are to, be largely for the purposes of education, charities and high- written with an insight and fancy that make his idyls of ways-purposes which no one would decry...
...All artists are unbelievers : "Pascal, despite AN ELEMENTARY and COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL himself...
...New York: Harper and Brothers...
...The demagogues who have been talking about vast increases of public expenditures and overwhelming public debts, By JOSEPH F. WICKHAM, M.A., LITT.D...
...M. Faure, who is being hymned U as "one of the most penetrating and fervidly critical minds derringer critics or to the soft-tongued white- _ of our day," gives us the law in his The History of Art in washers: four volumes ; and now we are introduced to the gospel in the shape of his latest book...
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...He came, not to make men brothers, "not to bring peace, but a sword...
...The Pessimism of Von Hartmann, with its invalu- necessary to know what is going on...
...The change of power at time, a more detailed account of this poet and her work...
...Second by side with the leading secular authors of the Reich...
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...Highland Falls, N. Y. Chartered Regents School for Girls I Fioretti di S. Francesco d'Assisi...
...Another consideration that should be borne in mind is that cities have been assuming more and more functions which THOUGHT) would otherwise have to be performed at the expense of the A Quarterly o f the Sciences and Letters people as individuals...
...Gaelic taught...
...Furfey's work consists in his direct and of the composition of the population of the modern city...
...Rationalism and mysticism-these are but 95tk and Throop Streets, LONGWOOD, CHICAGO, ILL...
...Professor Anderson's Paul Hanly Furfey, Ph.D...
...Lake Como the normal cost of government, we find that the increase is This year the entire world is celebrating the 700th annionly about proportionate with the increased cost of living...
...These duced from a rare edition of the seventeenth century, it will fathers conduct Downside and Ampleforth Schools be clear that this book is indeed a worthy offering and its in England and Fort Augustus in Scotland...
...Nothing is more cruel than love...
...and third, those who are subnormal in morality By GEORGE N. SHUSTER and conduct...
...Sarri, dei Minori...
...The best thing about Linzen's book, U however, is its own admirable geniality...
...Communism is sure to triumph...
...Nothing is true...
...The cinema usually preadolescent boy and the relation of this unseen tide of life portrays adults in a moral atmosphere of deceit, flirtation, un- to the external factors of environment are clearly portrayed...
...Jesus is a myth but a very good __ A SCHOOL FOR GIRLS myth...
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...There will also be numerous reprints of the Little Flowers of Saint ST...
...Ursula of the Blessed Virgin greatest persecutors, precisely because they were founded by On the Hudson artists...
...Enda's School, North Barustead, N. H. The text selected-and it must be added that the editor, most "francescamente," as the publisher remarks, has contributed his work of introduction and revision gratis-is a new one, found in the Royal Library of Turin...
...sonal view...
...blue, and the air quiet and dreamful and breathing peace...
...clinic, a juvenile court, and a family case working agency...
...Franciscan Monastery The Gang Age, by Paul Hanley Furfey...
...WALTER DAMROSCH probably will not go down in American musical history as one of the great orchestral AlOunt Ahrbael',5 conductors, nor have his efforts as a composer raised him to the ranks of the creative artists...
...tween the more vociferous behaviorists and the older schools The book is a progressive treatment of city government...
...The mental and the emotional life of the a much more elusive and subtle one...
...Ruth experiences are notably and sadly less thrilling than initial Schaumann is a young poet whose previous work, evaluated ones...
...Art, ACADEMY FOR GIRLS KINGSTON, N. Y. stifled by the Church at first, obtained revenge in the twelfth Boarders and Day Pupils and thirteenth centuries...
...The masterly presentation of the various factors which influence city is shown as an outgrowth of the needs of human beings preadolescent conduct...
...The practical application of the techpupil...
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...In 1922, this had in- VI...
...It is the problem of the author to select that troup and a pack of Wolf Cubs...
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...It examines the cause of juvenile delin- decidedly human viewpoint of the brothers in quency and the more effective ways of treating it...
...U Catholics at Oxford is a paper by the Rev...
...Anyone reading the reviews only might well ceremonies of the Protestant church, and if one avoids words have felt that the American critics had once more run amuck with specifically Catholic associations, one finds himself driven in their frantic search after genius...
...On the basis of a comprehensive statistical inquiry, the author General Metaplxysics...
...MUSIC-Conservatory Methods in Piano, Violin and His poetical frenzy is worth a burning of Rome...
...BERNARD BOEDDER, S.J...
...BURR PRINTING HOUSE Thus the book is appropriate just now, even though one won- Cor...
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...THE EMERGENCE OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY The functions of city government cannot be too closely INTO HISTORY Gilbert J. Garraghan, S.J...
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...U able critique of modernism, here has another day in court...
...wide variety, and usually from a multiplicity, of alternative Principles of Natural Theology...
...The value and force of the various for special devices to handle their common affairs in the environmental factors-home, companions, school, community, crowded conditions in which they find themselves...
...It would seem from the exhaustiveness of the treatment that no single contributing factor had been neglected...
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...must feel the beauty of style in his fluent and sympathetic L AST year, the publication in English of the Lady Mura- English transcription...
...James J. Walsh...
...Healththis book to Saint Francis, as a gift from his firm...
...U Karl Linzen is one of the most agreeable of contemporary U German essayists...
...Idem...
...35 West 32d Street New York Penetrating and comprehensive is the author's consideration of the causation factors in delinquency...
...The ecoand church-are carefully weighed and analyzed...
...So complete is this work, so penetrating, humanistic, and it merican City Government, by William fl nderson...
...Whether in presenting the Wagnerian music-dramas, in Opens in September, 1926 bringing composers like Tschaikowsky to America, or in orWrite for Prospectus ganizing and training military bands in France for the American Expeditionary Forces, he has done his work with ad October 6, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 537 mirable effectiveness...
...ment which are used principally in college courses, but a The attitude throughout is that of the keen-minded, warm- new one is always welcome-not that new books always add hearted educator, who seeks to penetrate to the very core the to the knowledge of the subject, but that they may present juvenile nature, and to propose those remedies which will sal- well-known matter in a more effective or vital form...
...and in the remaining 38 percent progress has been satisfactory...
...empty words to him...
...of the specific instincts-hunger, sex, anger, acquisitiveness, Moral Philosophy (Ethics, Deontology, and Natural hunting, wandering, curiosity, fear, self-assertion, cruelty, and Law...
...It deals with the city as a living, growing thing and discards The result is a judicious, sympathetic, and lucid exposition the idea that anything about city government is static...
...So it is with numerous new functions, more Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor particularly with those related to schools, health, and sani- Contents for September tation...
...The artist alone has ACADEMY OF OUR LADY found equilibrium...
...Idem...
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...He must be hard...
...Confucius, Buddha, Christ-it matters not...
...analyzed if we are to have correct understandings on the part IMAGERY AS AN ELEMENT IN LANGUAGE of the people who determine the policy of the city, both Stephen J. Brown, S.J...
...For the sake of self-expression, Football and the Faculty is a provocative pro- I "new" moral slaveries and new tyrants are accepted...
...Lire 2. IN THIS year of Saint Francis, there will be many boors devoted to him, old and new, learned and popular...
...sible explanations invoked by the criminologist has been much Psychology, Emo rical and Rational...
...a book for leisure, gratifyingly out of joint with realism The Sacred Tree: Being the Second Part of the Tale of Although few American readers will be able to compare Genji...
...Burt's study is another proof of the surrounding their work are dispelled...
...scriptions of natural and historical scenes are done with a It is this concern with motives and reactions rather than events fine, incisive poetry, and the characterization is graphic without which gives her writing such a modern aspect...
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...The presentation of ticularly those influences operating during his spare time, and bare outlines, as is done in so many books on government, to indicate how the recreational worker must take these in- while ignoring the workings of government by human beings, fluences into account in performing the task of character build- would be similar to teaching the structure of the body withing which is his...
...T HERE are several good books on American city governThe style is simple and direct, yet engaging and interesting...
...M.A...
...It is the weakness of our educational of different layers which may act in conflict, that an emotion system that the average citizen thinks of books as something may exist in the fullest intensity and yet be unperceived by to be studied only in school and college, instead of being every- the person in whom it is at work--such conceptions were comday tools in their civic lives...
...To show his care in regard to nuances saki's The Tale of Genji was the occasion of a full chorus of feeling as opposed to heavy-handed literalness, one may of critical enthusiasm...
...Books like Professor Anderson's monplaces in ancient Japan...
...THE MEXICAN CONSTITUTIONS OF 1824 AND City government is not some curious specimen to be studied 1857 Marie Regina Madden, M.A...
...OF SAINT FRANCIS No better chapter has been presented to give a wholesome point of view than the chapter on Money Expenses vs...
...SERVICE Wickham always retreats modestly into the background...
...Graded Courses in Both Music and Art Departments Lead to Teachers' Certificates and Diplomas My Musical Life, by Walter Damrosch...
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...Perhaps that is really a virtue...
...Wickham's book presents Assisi and her saint in a most fascinating manner...
...Remote from the savage tragedy and the "The Worst of All U grim economics which seem to have engulfed most of the U younger writers of his country, Linzen deals calmly and underU standingly with personages who belong to the past...
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...points out precisely the weaknesses and the absurdities that CATHOLIC POETRY have crept into city management...
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