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October 20, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 587 transforms her voice, gesture, walk, and facial expression...
...the Bouradjirs the fallacies of Whig politics...
...It is a dignified presentation of a dignified subject...
...He invented the recital, that is, each other's souls, and understood...
...In this respect the story reaches its apogee in disclosing the adventures of Lady TaverModern French Poetry, compiled and translated by Joseph idge...
...Even after the denouement of 1852, when the has spread broad and shining wings since Plutarch's day...
...court, Brace and Company...
...Henry Dwight Sedgwick, "rests upon the of his day-Wagner and Schumann, Berlioz and Rossini...
...I'd as soon give up life itself as you, Elleen,' fastidious, successful school-teacher, who has reared a son on he said...
...and satire become pathos and irony...
...The letters must be read patiently, for they are of vapidity, usually on the grand scale of an elephantine diglong, verbose, and sometimes confused, as dictated letters are itary interest...
...In his mind the of apostasy that was without a single star, until an angel, on two domains may finally have merged...
...subtle sacrifice of Berlioz at Liszt's feet...
...William Ricciardi out at all...
...but in their animatmember is better than a kiss you forget" is one of the wise- ing philosophy, the two conclusions are exactly alike...
...To the savage or the uninstructed rustic, such pieces tained a speedy distinction...
...Snowden mentions this fact but does not than wickedness, and produces more interesting characters," seem to realize its significance...
...Prather Nevertheless, the merits of Her Son's Wife are great...
...The Twenty Sonnets, by Gustav Davidson...
...Before the Novatian schism, they say, Catholics and Ellen's glowing consciousness...
...New York: Harper and Brothers...
...They must be read intelligently, for they are .Parisian from Italy had discovered how to glorify Gypsy music...
...The paper and print are seems advisable to call attention to the poetic reason for this excellent...
...that, if the permanance of marriage can be made as a tempestuous amateur of goldfish and love-birds gave racial to depend upon a wife's luck in being unselfishly loved, there gusto full vent...
...It the keys of the ministering angels," and promised that the alone accounts for the actual literary genesis of the Book of divine pabulum should "never be taken again from the earth, Mormon...
...Francis could preach to the birds, but Jesus could make the birds preach to St...
...Savage's fifty poets are not chosen quite as wisely and controller of such mechanisms, and the simple conscious- or with the generous breadth of appreciation shown by Mr...
...Personality and Reality: 4 Proof of the Real Existence of a But the goods were derailed en route, and Huneker lived to tell Supreme Self, by J. E. Turner...
...The translator from the French into English is as Turning to the apparent automatism of nature as seen, for certainly born as is any original poet, and we must sigh, even example, in the intra-atomic movements, "matter manifests while thanking Mr...
...It is fair to add that there is nothing very is really nothing much to be said in favor of marriage itself...
...they can- a small yet representative group of ladies and gentlemen not understand that nature is not self-explanatory, dead or from the Court of St...
...full of irrelevant yet meaningful antiquarians attempt to prove an attenuated tactual succession, figures, full of the sharp fragments of events and stories, things starting from the days of Pope Cornelius as a point of conwith no beginning and no end, yet fused into the unity of tact...
...If the ings are, fortunately, in an umbrageous minority...
...Berlioz, on the other hand, reengages our attention and deepens our admiration, by virtue of his technical genius for the orFranz Liszt: L'Homme d'fl mour, by Guy de Pourtales...
...while, as regards the closing decade of the Abbe's life, the tale In this interesting book, Dr...
...Even these imitations fall young and profoundly ignorant, leads an army to victory, short, by their own acknowledgments, of the primitive pattern and places a king upon his throne...
...It is clear forth that the argument from design might be wiped off that the French biographer has a part-time hero in his subject: the board though, as a matter of fact, the abandonment of during the grand noon of his amours and his musical activities...
...long to demonstrate realized his functions...
...though they should not to anyone who gives them a In Casements, by Richard Cloudesley Savage, there are moment's reflection...
...Her past achievegoing to the seamy side of city life for their new arrangement ment, though essentially unmasculine, is sturdy enough in bulk, of lingerie and the cave-man...
...the materialist, "the only logical implication of the perfect mechanism of the natural world is the total absence of any The Green Lacquer Pavilion, by Helen Beauclerk...
...God-almighty blast me and her achievements-is admirable...
...Such, then, is the theory and strong- the saint, not the woman, who did the work at hand...
...The translation by Eleanor finally published during the auspicious year of the artist's cen- Stimson Brooks is very readable...
...It is the sort of book that those who care much for our MThe Truth About Mormonism, by James H. Snowden...
...They must be read the concert with the piano alone...
...She bears many chiland see her victimized by her father's indolence and her dren...
...The play has many ingredients competent enough in intelligence and adventurous enough in obviously injected to make it a popular success...
...and yet turns of the original...
...She was as plain-spoken book on Mormonism...
...and the land fundamentalism...
...I cannot recall any trouble...
...It is a primary intuition, and not cise their courtesy on cannibals, discover in the treachery of a deduction...
...The than vice, though many moralists do their best to deprive it Anabaptist John of Leyden had practised polygamy at Muen- of this advantage...
...Special consideration should The temptation to write the great biography of Liszt seems be directed to the excessively complicated and apparently autoperennial...
...New in re-creating the naive quality of Miss Loos's murderess...
...But the spiritual life churches...
...It had long been touted, and was always shys at "music in a book...
...Realization comes: love is frustrated: and "it seemed ably small in comparison to the poetry translated from the that she had passed beyond fear into the empty spaces where German, Italian and Spanish, or even from the Russian...
...Joseph collection present to us in such excellent volumes as I Mistici...
...No The situations are carefully chosen to bring into relief the arguments," wrote Westcott, "can establish the existence of foibles of these proper Georgians who sail with pirates, exeran infinite personal God...
...order that the latter's child, freed from her dominion, may It gives little opportunity except for some of the broadest have a chance of normal development...
...the purposes and methods of the one from Theodore Botrel is well translated, but lacks the tender have become utterly incomprehensible to the other...
...He was, as Nietzsche knowledge and a great deal of imagination...
...Unwittingly, M. de Pourtales sums up--very apt to be...
...This middle-aged and respectable gentlewoman finds T. Shipley...
...and Overton allow, too many novels, too many unimportant RODERICK GILL...
...Even the Baptist nificant, imperious, intense...
...and, if she had none of Teresa's heaven-sent We are indebted to Dr...
...On the authority of Father Flynn, who to disencumber her mind of all convention...
...one cannot scribof Alexandria, through Saint Ephrem the Syrian, and Saint ble rationally without thinking cogently...
...It can be dealt with briefly honey of life in her heart.' " because it has a smooth, flawless simplicity of conception and MARY KoLARS...
...ness of such an observer, there has gradually arisen an almost Shipley, but a more delicate touch, a higher quality of transabsolute chasm, comparable only to the contrast between a lucency shines in general through his versions...
...adequate preliminary training...
...a football around without ever getting into the game...
...Miss Scudder has given to English readers a sympathetic Is it surprising, therefore, that Mormonism should be an study of Saint Catherine, and a beautifully worded translation almost 10o percent "Nordic" product...
...New York: The Macmillan the tale-the tale of an idol whose lustre faded with intimacy...
...All these are Saint Catherine of Siena: ifs Seen in Her Letters, translated "restorers," but the latter are deficient in that they are an- and edited by Vida D. Scudder...
...In the cracks) she catches nothing worse...
...It is a method which Lights and Shadows of Mormonism...
...In Miss Canfield's plan, The tree-tops above the roof, the mist in the trees, the points Mary Bascomb's decision to get Lottie "flat on her back in of the roof, dull color, all belonging to the farmer, the yellow bed" and out of the way, is a part of her larger decision to wall, the distance lying off across a rolling cornfield that was serve Lottie's child...
...Davidson's sonnets maintain an excellent level, of public reference libraries...
...New York: Greenberg, Publisher...
...M. Trogan comments Become a ghost no longer heard or seen...
...He matic and autonomous machinery which the ingenuity of inwas a man of unrealized potentialities : full of inspiration but ventors has given to the public, particularly in the past few just as full of noise...
...tenary, 1911...
...but we cannot easily them...
...The fact is, that the greater the complexity of the icles the adventures which befall them and their hosts from mechanism, the greater the simulation of automatism and the the time they step through the portals of the green lacquer greater the mind of the inventor...
...The editor's bold assertion : "Goodness, despite a curiwon their converts in England, Scandinavia, North Germany, ous prejudice to the contrary, admits of more variety in type and Holland...
...Each is about a Hatton offering at the Klaw Theatre...
...The Mormon missionaries vision...
...New York: Harit is highly successful...
...translated by Richard Cloudesley Savage...
...This man is Josiah F. Gibbs, who, in i9o9, Joyce, but here redeemed from freakishness and tiring excess published from the press of the Salt Lake Tribune his book, into a sane relation with the objective...
...as a realistic recital, derives from this...
...Its Howe to Dr...
...The study of her reaction to perdition if ever I forget you, Elleen...
...The present volume reprints these Leaving us poorer than ever, we and our papers quite as they appeared, thus enabling one to go over Bright passion slain, our sometime pride and power historic ground with an expert guide...
...AGNES REPPLIER...
...There are the droll interracial con- perfectly fair, upon the appearance of a new novel of Miss tacts for which Abie and his Irish Rose have set the fashion...
...And book worthy to set beside this one in the realization of what still, at the end, when her children are almost grown, Luke, the love for a helpless child can be, and what the misery of the orchard man, can say to her: its frustration...
...It took his world from ours...
...Thus, of the throbbing style, no rhetoric, no departure in manner the Methodist antiquarians, while contending for a providenfrom the severe realities of the matter-are extraordinary...
...But orthodox, whereas her conclusion in Her Son's Wife is that though she catches their point of view ("A bruise you re- the end may sometimes justify the means...
...It is its implications that are at fault...
...He deals with Richard de Saint Victor, Albert the within himself...
...Better Writing, by Henry Seidel Canby...
...We cannot take so all these touched something settled and comforting in her casually, all in our stride, as it were, the notion that one mind, something like a drink of water after an hour of thirst, human being blandly "suggests" spinal trouble to another...
...As a milestone in the progress of a court, Brace and Company...
...can hardly be made to seem a mere annex to other ideas more Later, when she emerges from her wild, solitary childhood, familiar...
...in Her Son's Wife, Mary Bascomb virtually hypnothree notes, save her when Tony is tucking up his shirt-cuffs tizes her daughter-in-law into a state of chronic invalidism in for action...
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...for, had not several of the "It is the charm and safety of virtue that it is more natural leading Reformers condoned bigamy, if not polygamy...
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...The Smiths came from of her letters...
...2.00...
...But this strikes upon the imagination mottled with the wet and traced with lines of low cornwith a terrific effect of disproportion...
...and he who would Gregory of Nissa, and other figures of the Greek and Latin wrestle with the sins of composition must stage the battle Church...
...Luther had winked at it...
...Signor Arrigo Levasti has compiled dates and critical notices Canby's point merely puts it in its right place : all rightly of each of the Christian mystics, quoting liberal extracts from written expressions of thought or imaginative fancy must rest their literary works...
...I have tried to tell again in study and a profound understanding: his selections also are these `Homely Spirituals' the unchanging eternal truths in made with a truly catholic expanse of culture and, while the the prosy form of nature's colloquial speech...
...so francs...
...wholly justifies itself...
...but Liszt inevitably fails each seeker in turn...
...The flux of experience comes through Protestantism cannot disown Mormonism, for Mormonism it with complete authority, unfinished, uninterrupted, yet sig- is the only fully consistent Protestantism...
...They are precisely in the position of the York: George H. Doran Company...
...It should satisfy the current appetite for feverish I T is now fifteen years since Huneker's biography of Liszt literature, and easily become a best seller...
...You're worth all the balance put alongside together.' . . If The Time of Man, by Elizabeth Madox Roberts, a new- He pressed the soil firmly down and laid the sods in place, comer among novelists, receives less space here, it is not because pressing them carefully...
...The "They stood together weeping, she with tears and he with picture of Mary Bascomb at the beginning-the domineering, wrenching sobs...
...James...
...Shipley and Mr...
...And the depiction of the situation which develops heart seems dead, life is too strong in her to be defeated...
...little actress with elements of greatness, it is placed, so to speak, on a time-wasting detour...
...savage when confronted with a gramophone...
...It is unbearable, incidental treatment here seriously impairs one's sense of the and so, too, is the pain, when, at her parting with Jonas reliability of the whole last half of the novel...
...and Oliver Cowdery "the priesthood of Aaron, which holds The Spaulding manuscript origin theory still stands...
...Tony is of morals, the ardent honesty, worthy of the very greatest the sort of city-block champion that the sporting public sees in respect, which prompts her, in addressing her problems, to try preliminary bouts...
...and both are, of course, even in their own terms, faulty But the measure of our dislike was already full when we and incomplete...
...Its matter is the life of Ellen ORMONISM'S secret is simple, but the majority of the Chesser, a daughter of the vagabond farmers who drifted writers who have essayed its exposition have missed it...
...Catherine could not write until a few years before incisively-his gamut as composer when he observes : "This her death...
...To bridge this chasm, we must have some kinsprit, Richard Wagner, to do this...
...And when a soul is given to these to a prime Mover is really just the thing he is seeking...
...tual connection with what they consider to have been the S AINTS are marvelous things...
...This is true...
...Two volumes, lire 16...
...Miss Genevieve Tobin is made to more and more exclusively a feminine occupation, will find coo at a certain crisis in Treat 'Em Rough, the new little to nurture it in these two novels...
...there is the unaffectedly warm and generous in settling neighborhood clashes out of court, but whose enter- humanity, the preoccupation with the social and practical side prise is really run by an adopted son, Tony Barudi...
...Various zealots, appearing about the same Greek, played on the Mormons, with his "manuscript found time in New York, Pennsylvania and what is now West Vir- in the wilds of Mormon" ! Unintentionally, of course, and ginia, undertook the "restoration" of the primitive Church...
...1.50...
...But it is present, place New York...
...It evaluation of these two composers than the aforementioned, it opens with ease, and it stays open...
...ROBERT R. HULL...
...Clemenceau, the Count de Chambord, and Charles Maurras...
...Joseph is a problem for the psychologist as was the Spanish nun, and her words penetrated to the even today...
...mechanism" ; to such an extent that to the naturalist and THOMAS WALSH...
...592 THE COMMONWEAL October 20, 1926 resignation dwells, and even her passion for Safir was become a BRIEFER MENTION dull craving, such as a woman feels for those whom time and distance have taken from her...
...The Mormons, altogether ignowere then initiated, the idea of an altogether new commence- rant of Greek, swallowed it...
...Little Gregory, child and a Newton...
...if our Catho- Grant Overton...
...Among Tony's bevy of bruised is not religious...
...again the love of her youth: "She was returned to the unthinkCasements: Fifty Poems by Fifty French Poets, selected and ing, radiant place that men have likened to a garden...
...solid is the reaction against stuffed and trussed romanticism...
...There are certainly, as Messrs...
...And certainly, if the Church were restored, in skill, Catherine to have demonstrated her powers of states1826 or any other year, who can deny that miraculous mani- manship ; but neither of these women accomplished her purfestations, as in the beginning, would be quite necessary to pose by force of ability, but by force of inspiration...
...An like a little bridge over a stream that ran out of a thicket, like idea so strange in its nature and so sinister in its connotations cool steps going up into a shaded doorway...
...and this delightful fantasy chronalive...
...He is faithless...
...New York: HarLURTQN BLASSINGAME...
...2.50...
...The American reader will be particularly inWe cannot ever, once the moment goes, terested in numerous anecdotes of rare quality and pertinence, Restore the magic or renew the rose ; concerning such well-known individuals as General Maitrot, Nor to the skylark, winging, bid it stay...
...He was an epileptic...
...Signor Levasti has accomplished a noble work in making this The Commercial Side of Literature, by Michael Joseph and compilation from sources often difficult to follow...
...The orphan lifts her crapy skirts and kicks her black In other words, though Miss Canfield is deeply moral, she legs with the best of them...
...Having collected Lisztiana for more than a WALTER V. ANDERSON...
...Brigham Young was a typical Yankee, whole volume is thus brought clearly within the range of his shrewd, practical, and calculating...
...W HATEVER of the condemnatory may hover in the comTreat 'Em Rough monly made statement that novel-writing is becoming `` HATE safe men...
...It will show them, if they All the familiar names are here, from Eckhart, the German, can see, how the thing must be done if it is to be done at all...
...Time is the outlook, to appease the most squirearchical exactions...
...October 20, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 587 transforms her voice, gesture, walk, and facial expression until not a trace remains of the strangely poignant girl in Proces- BOOK S sional or the visionary waif in The Glass Slipper...
...there are times when the insipid face of triteness contrary to that of Roman Catholicism, resting as this does in shows through the make-up of cleverness ; but such shortcompart, at least, on the deductions of scholasticism...
...deepest mystery, the fact of consciousness...
...HUGH FRANCIS BLUNT The name of Joseph T. Shipley has long been associated Author of "Great Penitents," etc...
...These register stroying the human rights of its parent, it will not be long so low a mark in behavioristic standards that they earn it its before all rights whatsoever are treated as non-existent...
...She combined, like justify the revolution in England, was not averse to enter- Saint Teresa, the raptures of the mystic with a talent for taining the suggestion...
...Perhaps the authors of Lombardi Limited markable...
...writer will look into the teachings of that scholasticism, he Truth is scattered here, the truth found in dreams, unreal will find that Saint Thomas's great argument from motion yet more real than life...
...Florence, Italy: Bemporad and who advises his son thus excellently : "Write me every week, Son...
...homme...
...But, when latterly his fortune was Messer Ristoro Canigiani, as a wise friend might write to a made and he was surrounded by a numerous following, he Philadelphia lawyer today...
...It does not take very...
...The whole story was the hill "Cumorah," in May, 1826, restored to Joseph Smith an allegory...
...But until the sons of Levi do offer again an offering unto the Lord what a grim joke the Reverend Spaulding, who knew a little in righteousness...
...He never obtained in his composition a comA gap of nearly six hundred years separates Saint Catherine's plete expression of the greatest that was in him...
...New is rather a pity that a wider reading public cannot be assured York...
...Plutarch, indeed, gave his vote-which counts prejudice against Catholicism, an opportunity to rid themselves for a great deal-to the wicked...
...Nor does she quite succeed The Time of Man, by Elizabeth Madox Roberts...
...Miss Scudder aphorized him, "the conglomerate of a hundred musicians' souls, tells us that the society of the fourteenth century is mirrored but not enough of a personality to cast his own shadow upon in the Saint's pages...
...probable that many readers of this book will receive no other Miss Scudder's volume is a triumph of book-making...
...New York: Blue confusion of the average literary man in the presence of manuFaun Publications...
...And she doesn't mean woman, and by a woman...
...national letters have been praying for-a piece of unqualified New York: George H. Doran Company...
...It translated from the French by Eleanor Stimson Brooks...
...trayed...
...And he was the most and which we are beginning to dimly apprehend...
...The play ends in marriage and reformation...
...He cannot im- T O Taveridge Hall, in the year of Our Lord 1710, come agine that the thing is not alive and self-explanatory...
...task, not merely of restating it, but of raising it to a higher inAnd so we remain without a biography of Liszt attaching dex...
...Both decisions are pragcharacter acting...
...of the watch found on the heath...
...As it is bearable...
...place with the "unpleasant" plays of the season...
...pavilion-which had been, but a moment before its sudden The rest of the argument must be quite obvious, and its enlargment, only part of the embroidery on a Chinese screenfurther working out should be studied in the setting of the until they return, a much sobered group, to their tea in the book itself...
...and England...
...She when little Dids is born, and Mary Bascomb must stand by loves again, and marries jasper Kent...
...Company...
...She writes to a Florentine lawyer, "peep-stone" virtuoso...
...general effect of his work is excellent, we can only regret what Price, $1.50 seems to be a defective rhythmical sense in his versions...
...will be denied by the careless many, and admitted by the First of all, the Mormons offered to a people steeped in thoughtful few...
...Savage recovers himself artistically the first has continuously evolved from the second, so that in with the fine translation of My Heaven, from Sully Prudtheir nature they remain essentially akin...
...Irish fearlessness, Irish re- earlier book, the wife refused to leave her husband for her source and, most especially, the paralyzing effect of a gurgling lover because she realized the superior selflessness of the forlittle laugh that erudite critics profess to be able to score on mer's love...
...This sonnet marks the climax in his theme Regards sur la vie, by Edouard Trogan...
...objectionable in the way Treat 'Em Rough is put upon the that, if the human rights of a child can be vindicated by destage...
...In all of his diversified pursuits he at- decades...
...But she does belong in that superior class of facile love to him when his temper is good, or slapping and craftsmen whose very deficiencies are worthy of serious attenpunching them when it is bad...
...quarter-century, haunting his pupils and gossiping with his friends, the Steeplejack's work was to be the definitive life...
...And don't mind if you haven't anything to say...
...In most of his piano works there is a peculiar quality glimpse it...
...York: The Viking Press...
...est appeal of Mormonism...
...The tial initiation of the Wesleyan system, are not unmindful of Ellen through whose eyes she looks is a poet, blessed beyond the importance of a certain quasi-historical authority by sucmost of her kind in that she lives her poetry...
...Occasionally a Turner continues by stating that this "attitude, I believe, is sally fails...
...The result, perhaps, may be the reflection of credit on our English vi= One Macmillan Book a Week and American knowledge of the French language...
...His At your bookstore or from conscientiousness to convey the sense of his originals rather overcomes the musical result of them, so throughout the book THE MACMILLAN COMPANY we find things that are exquisite in the original spirit reduced 60 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N. Y. rather overmuch to prose standards...
...a book which illustrates so well as does Regards sur la vie, T. C. the finest principles and methods of journalism...
...nevertheless, considering the excellence of Gallic poetry, its inspiration, advancement and originality, the general paucity of French HOMELY SPIRITUALS translations is a surprising discovery...
...His impostures it mentioned") the wisdom of avoiding public banquets, and then took on the form of external dramatizations of certain the claims of poor clients upon his consideration...
...Turner sets himself to the occasionally lapses into East Lynne bathos...
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...Not only as a moral problem, but as a psychological and the companionship of her fellow-workers on this or that possibility, it looms up, challenging and unique ; and its hasty farm is added, the joy is almost unbearable...
...The sun sinks in the west, the river flows, It is a pleasure, indeed, to put one's stamp of approval upon And a whole world will blossom and decay...
...588 THE COMMONWEAL October 20, 1926 The chief technical deficiency of Her Son's Wife, considered "In her mind, the house touched something she almost knew...
...Her letters, whether of his family and the "witnesses" who "saw" the plates of written to the great ones of the earth (she had two Popes, his "Golden Bible...
...Pourtales knows his Liszt-well enough of the dull misunderstanding which can make suffering un- to represent Berlioz in a series of unkindly asides...
...Snowden, only one man seems to have fully method is the subjective one of Dorothy Richardson and James grasped this secret...
...script agencies and publishing experts warrants a further demand for this work: the proper handling of a manuscript IN Twenty Sonnets, the poet Gustav Davidson develops a before and after its acceptance, to save embarrassments for the love theme from its April phases, through loss, to the in- author and publisher, gives a place to this volume with both evitable acceptance of divine fate and the consolations of phil- these classes of bookmen, and a handy corner on the shelves osophy...
...In a way, I suppose, the principle tionary of I Mistici of the mystics of Greece, the Latin world, is intrinsically sound, just as a youngster may legitimately kick and the Italian, German, Spanish, French, English, and Polish...
...chestra and the clear discharge of his generous inspiration...
...She and jasper have a little prosperity, but much more mother's ignorance, is something more...
...animated puppets, the writing freshens into poetry, humor BBRTRAM C. A. WINDLE...
...in none was he preeminent-save of machinery must seem really automatic, and even self-explanaOctober 20, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 591 tory...
...She writes 590 THE COMMONWEAL October 20, 1926 to that unscrupulous soldier of fortune, Sir John Hawkwood, (and this was his Nessus-shirt) in his amours...
...is the training of half-dad girls for entertainment purposes, Not that Miss Canfield is perfect, either as an artist, or as and whose amusements oscillate between letting them make a moralist...
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...z.oo...
...It is worth noting, too, that it is almost impossible to conH. L. S. vey an invented morality in terms of a really satisfactory art...
...Her conclusion in The Brimming Cup was beauty her arrival injects the discord we should expect...
...Paris: Librarie Bloud and Gay...
...alone...
...2.50...
...In any case, they have followed current fashion in his exceptions to the feminization of fiction...
...Savage, for the pen of itself always under the form of extremely complex autonomous a vanished Father Prout and Denis Florence McCarthy...
...New York: E. P. But one cannot dwell forever on the enchanted side of a Dutton and Company...
...practical detail...
...autobiographies, but a special discussion as to their merits and place in the book world is certainly not untimely...
...And the other important The distinction of the author's mind, the intensity of the denominations, according as they may approach for their norm feeling she displays, the tranquillity of its control, the over- the Anglican High-Church ritualism, fix the points of their whelming simplicity of its expression-for there is no sign here departures from the parent stem at earlier or later dates...
...They are, he said, the people of every remaining vestige of Romanism in the Reformed whom the world wants to hear about...
...born of their day, a day when passionate holiness balanced But-"He always played from memory...
...pointing out the undesirability of was enabled to attain a certain degree of religious "sincerity" holding public office ("It ought to weary you even to hear as the profane world understands the word...
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...He was -the first passionate depravity, and when saint and sinner looked into artist who had dared to do so...
...By REV...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and achronisms, merely imitating without any attempt to find tac- Company...
...It was prove its divine mission...
...This is attempted by turning more to the dynamic and itself to the classic line, and more and more the fault seems less to the static aspect, as Paley did in his famous example Liszt's and not his biographers'-who have been many indeed...
...show a gentle charm in many passages, and reveal a poetical personality modern in its reserves and well moderated in its transports...
...But all these bids for box- habits, how just soever, are not quite just enough to be allowed office receipts fail to reconcile us to a bully whose "business" as absolute...
...When I come back, when, in the middle of his senior year, Ralph brings home as we'll get married...
...You got the very honey of life in your heart...
...lic scholarship may hope to recall the world to a realization of what is Christian mysticism, properly so called, from the nebu- ONE would think that the commercialism in literature lous theories of modern authors regarding the subject, so that might be minimized with some good results to letters and culwe may distinguish between the imperfect schools of Hindu ture, but we are all aware that the reading public has theosophists and Rabbinical systems, it will only be accom- increased enormously and with this increase have accumulated plished by a proper use of the sources of information which intricate problems for the writers and printers, publishers and Signor Levasti and the distinguished editors of this Italian distributors of books...
...His words mingled with their weeping, falling beher earnings, knows her job, and is fiercely proud of her place tween their cries and their caresses...
...The "plates" were symbolical embellishments...
...Snowden for some information humor, she shared her insight into men's hearts, and her conabout the "Prophet" Joseph that is not supplied in the average fidence in their redeeming qualities...
...if less well-known, figures of ecstatics and inspired authors...
...No reasoning can establish its truth...
...that argument is urged by Darwin in one of the most unThe period from Liszt's birth to his adolescence is one with philosophical of his many unphilosophical statements...
...HERE is, in some novel or other, a fatherly character I Mistici, by fIrrigo Levasti...
...made up their minds while at Hollywood, that audiences It is not likely, of course, than even an implacably virile share pretty Nora O'Hare's preference for dark and danger- critic would have had Miss Canfield in mind in formulating ous ones...
...He ranges from Saint Clement upon a substantial intellectual substructure...
...Miss Genevieve Tobin is colleenish that the chief practical flaw in the principle of choosing to do after a formula that does not seem to have greatly altered what will work out best, is that, presently, nothing will work since the days of Little Old New York...
...Even which our author is not instinctively en rapport: thus the open- if natural selection were proved truth, the argument in quesing chapters of the book savor of having been written down to tion would merely require restatement-and restated it has the reader, whose capacity for sentimentality is overestimated ; been time and again...
...For "Mormon," in Greek, ment of the Christian Church and, in part, belongs to that means "bug-bear...
...2.50...
...Here, it may be, the higher criticism of a French king, and a dissolute queen of Naples among her Mormonism, which, of late, has been developed in the very correspondents) or to plain people of her own class, reveal bosom of the Church, comes to our assistance...
...If, in his youth, entreating him as he "takes such pleasure in war and fight- he saw France and Austria at his feet for his sheer pianism ing," to join the promised crusade, and turn his arms against (abetted by his position as the world's most adorable lover) the infidels, "who possess our Holy Place, where rested the he could yet meet with lukewarm shoulders in Germany, Italy, sweet Primal Truth that bore death and pains for us...
...ster under his "theocracy...
...Joan is said to have shown military Twelve...
...my boy...
...Her best-loved child dies...
...Her Son's Wife displays the combination of traits to The business passes in an apartment over the cabaret of which The Bent Twig, and The Brimming Cup have already Tomasso Salvatore, known locally as "the judge" for his skill accustomed us...
...Saint Catherine's In the form employed, M. de Pourtales subscribes to the conscious absorption in divine truth, her conscious correspon- Strachey-Maurois school of biographical fiction-and he does dence with the divine will, left her free to suffer, but incapable so very successfully...
...Now, in a moment, all that we have been One to another in a timeless hour I N leisurely but alert essay fashion, the veteran editor of Dies in us suddenly, as any flower Le Correspondant, oldest, most liberal, and probably most That spends too richly and with too serene distinguished of the French Catholic reviews, commented upon An air of giving, its inaugural green ; affairs from 1919 to 1925...
...He even took one more step sympathetically, for they are, above and beyond all else, a along the road to unity by dedicating certain evenings to a human document, affording in their vivid self-analysis a key single composer, Beethoven, Berlioz, or even Liszt, which to the mysticism which is the supreme attribute of saintship, seemed as daring as it was impertinent...
...tion...
...with French translations in the pages of Poet Lore, and his introduction to his present collection has the flavor of serious "St...
...The Irish priest mensions of any ethical canon, a certain opportunism of conleaves her there when the alternative dangers of employment clusion, a lack of the profoundest sense of the consonance in a china store and a private family have been feelingly por- between virtue and the human soul...
...The author alludes to the fact that many believe drawing-room of Taveridge Hall...
...and Tauler, Saint Thomas a Kempis, Saint Peter of Alcantara, One regrets a certain tendency on the part of the author to Fray Luis de Granada, Saint Teresa of Avila, and Fray Luis group so many subjects under a heading that it becomes exde Leon...
...genus of denominations which includes the Disciples ("Campbellites") "Christian Church" ("New Lights") and a little later on the Holiness "Church of God," etc...
...He played fast and loose both with the members secret core of human pride and weakness...
...never anticipating that it would ever turn up as a new "Bible," Thus Mormonism shares with several other movements which he slipped in his little hoax...
...As a matter of fact, though this is very definite to spare...
...A the collection of I Libri Necessari issued under A great deal of academic training in composition surely reL1 the direction of the Italian author Giovanni Papini, there poses on the same principle-write whether you have anything is the highly satisfactory biographical and bibliographical dic- to scribble about or not...
...The mys- zealous as well as the most qualified apostle of the new music tical," says Mr...
...Much of what is said in this little book Great, Abelard, Saint Francis of Assisi and his followers, not ought to be of the greatest assistance to the increasing number overlooking Saint Angela da Foligno, Saint Catherine of of those who have been coaxed into literary effort without an Siena, and Saint Lawrence Justinian of the mediaeval period...
...companions come up over the crest of a hill-comes to her with But the fundamental assumption of Mormonism is that the the sharp impact of ecstasy Catholic Church, at an early date, departed from the Christian October zo, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 589 faith and thus plunged the whole of Christendom into a night interior experiences...
...If Huneker apparently became half-hearted in his biography A CTING under the inspiration of Darwin, the fiat went of Liszt, M. de Pourtales seems but a little less so...
...You're worth all the balance and it is less good...
...and Certainly, the beauty and joy which are attributes of sainteven Burnet, who wrote what once passed for history to ship radiated visibly from Catherine...
...Baptists were members of one body...
...New directive mind...
...An Italian dyer's daughter, (they do not have apostles and prophets) ; whereas Mormon- untaught save by the experiences of life, becomes a controlling ism, consistent with its "restoration" premises, offers to man- factor in Church and state, and brings a Sovereign Pontiff kind the plenary authority and thaumaturgy of the original back to his see in Rome...
...As a stunt, Her Son's Wife, by Dorothy Canfield...
...Life, life harsh cession and have persuaded themselves that John Wesley, an and homely as she has always known it-the planting of ordained priest of the Established English Church, became a gardens, the long toil in tobacco fields, the herding of cows bishop by the default of the Anglican bishops to whom he and turkeys, the glimpses of new country as she and her gypsy appealed in vain to consecrate bishops for his missions...
...But the public made its appearance...
...and there is alsovisits the establishment on his way to sick-calls, his cabaret is what is frequently the concomitant of these valuable and ena pretty good one as such things go...
...execution which centers the attention instead of dispersing it...
...As the sulky young slave-driver, Allan matic-that is, conditioned upon the specific circumstances Dinehart protrudes his jaw and bulges his eyes convincingly...
...Francis...
...revelation" on "celestial marriage" was published, Mormon- and Santayana strikes a modern note when he says suavely: ism was not wholly unattractive...
...green lacquer screen, and on the prosaic side Lady Taveridge T HE amount of modern French poetry translated into is the dutiful-but unloving and unloved-wife of a country English will be found by any earnest seeker to be remark- squire...
...Today praise indeed, it is much better-and not only much better I says to myself while I dug the holes for the Sharons and than Miss Canfield's, but also much better than any other the Elbertas in Arland Booker's orchard, I says, she's got the current novel that comes to mind...
...somewhat finer results, and a rather higher standard of trans"Between the highly developed consciousness of the inventor lation...
...A police sergeant brings terprising qualities-a certain failure to perceive the full dia motherless girl to it in search of a job...
...Among them he has included many of the important, tremely difficult to envisage them properly...
...Elder Sidney Rigdon was the intermediary...
...Henry Holt and Company...
...realism which is also a poem...
...this book...
...and each is, beyond question, resafe-blowers either...
...his bride a common, cheaply pretty, almost illiterate girl, is But Jonas marries Sallie Lou, and though at first Ellen's admirable...
...Canfield's, to remind the squirearchy afresh that she is a There is a slip of a girl, a policeman and a parish priest, all woman, and that the strictures against her sex's literary three guaranteed genuine Irish...
...that the existence of a God is insusceptible of proof...
...upon the Peace Treaty, the reparations, the debts, and the And to whatever liberal gods we pray, Locarno pacts...
...A French farmer's daughter, system of the primitive Church...
...through Kentucky and Tennessee about twenty-five years ago Among the vast crowd of Mormonism's critics, from E. D. -her childhood, womanhood, marriage, motherhood...
...the same unflattering candor, the same sanguine spirit, the same Joseph began as a water-witch, a seeker for lost mines, a stern and urgent appeal...
...1.35...
...At the present moment Happy is the author whose publishers aid and abet her efforts in the evolution of music, Liszt's influence is enormous-so to make her work acceptable to her readers...
...Each letter is prefaced by the precise informaVermont and were steeped in the eschatology of New Eng- tion which the reader requires for understanding...
Vol. 4 • October 1926 • No. 24
