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...GEORGE N. SHUSTER...
...It is not in the germ-cells, nor is it contributed in an orderly and easily visualized manner, emphasizing the by the parents: "It is not the soul of the mother or the tendencies which one by one became influential in the life father...
...enumerated here, it illuminates the script of genius which too It has, he thinks, got into a blind alley by becoming the victim often ignored the western mind, or at least assumed that its of false bifurcations...
...It was a crass, ignoble period, a day f1 n fl merican Tragedy of barbaric wealth and bad taste, of plush carpets, horrible T O start with an honest confession, I have merely glanced portieres, gaudy wall-paper, offensive gilt and crystal chanthrough the pages of Theodore Dreiser's two-volume novel deliers, graceless silver, blatant buildings, of brag and bluster...
...is also memorable in these days of sloppy acting, but Mr...
...Sir Bernard never condescends The Church, of course, teaches that each soul is the separate to develop possible sensations, never pauses to exploit glamourOctober 27, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 61 ous detail...
...Lee's Business Ethics, one-third of which is devoted to CRITICS may finally decide that Miss Lowell was bean appendix of codified trade maxims, rules of conduct, busi- trayed by grim fate into a lifelong hankering after a literary ness creeds and similar formal assertions of principles drawn medium that could never really be hers...
...On the whole, GEORGE MARIANO is the pen-name of a well-known advertising man...
...Cosmic Evolution, by John Elof Boodin...
...public-spirited civil servant and magistrate, keenly appreciative Bronx, New York City of the reputable pleasures of life, a friend of many literary Conducted by MARIST BROTHERS men, with a nose for what might be called the "low-down" in their private lives, and a relish for humor of a Rabelaisian Select Boarding and Day School for Boys tinge, Hardman's science of living is as dead today as mutton or mutton-chop whiskers, as antiquated as a congress-gaiter or HIGH SCHOOL, GRAMMAR, PRIMARY lace-paper valentine...
...their own name and family life...
...The same thing is true of the memoirs and diaries which men Majestic article by majestic article, Msgr...
...secrations, requiems, and devotions like the Forty Hours...
...James Kent Stone solved for himself, from obscurity of a number of important figures in American not without disquiet and mental suffering, such problems as literature and art...
...The centuries...
...He is much too complex a lines the climactic-one somewhat loses touch with one's backcharacter for any except a master dramatist to display in all ground ; life seems well-nigh altogether a matter of robbery, the essential shades...
...In Father Fidelis's life as a Passionist, we find outbreak of the European war in August, 1914, found him little resemblance to the scholarly retirement of Newman's offering his services to his religious superiors for work as an Oratory at Edgbaston...
...But beIt is the largest of the subscription theatres, which is indirect tween those moments, you do not find yourself carried on by testimony of popular favor in a new type of undertaking...
...Hardman was a Tory in politics and his references to The simplicity of the stage mechanism and costumAmerica and the Civil War show a bias and venom almost ing make it admirably adapted for amateur production by schools and drama groups...
...Lunt's voice relaxes, one us...
...The play is, The author has told a tale without pointing a moral...
...is animated and picturesque...
...The travel letters written to izer and founder...
...CHARLES SEARS BALDWIN, professor of rhetoric and English at Barnard PROFESSOR MANION, as an excellent and experienced College, Columbia University, is the author of Essays Out of Hours, teacher of American history, undertook the writing of a textintroduction to English Mediaeval Literature, and other books...
...Robinson singleness of problem which makes Hamlet and Macbeth great gives so much forthrightness and active power to his Diaz, as a as plays...
...At this time, he says, the IF WRITING history by decades be one of the American Church was "maddened by spoliation," and adds that "a swarm reactions to Wells's "Outline," the work of covering the of pillagers, fraudulent purchasers, and generals in search of years in their tens moves on apace : we have had The Fabulous booty settled on the confiscated lands...
...The victimizers were thieving, scuffling, intriguing, and jacket-blurb mysteriously whispers, to add, without apologies to lying...
...Edward colorful pages, that most horrors have their mitigations...
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...PAUL CROWLEY...
...There is conflict always, but never the same conflict Dudley Digges in his portrait of the Archbishop of Mexico is followed through its different phases...
...Royality is not spared and there are references to the means by which the im- THE REVELLER mense private fortune of the Queen-Empress was built up, to A Franciscan Play enrich a host of needy German relatives, which make strange comment on the outward loyalty and reverence for the throne By DANIEL SARGENT and royal family typical of Hardman's age...
...step by step, to the conclusion that there could be no middle FREDERICK H. MARTENS...
...Back to Aristotle and Aquinas-and single issues...
...Only in the larger not quite so happy...
...If one longs at times for a deeper undercurrent of at the moment of crisis, deserted him, leaving him to be shot majesty in this pathetic figure, one soon realizes that Mr...
...New York: George H. Doran Company...
...that of a master, despite the frequent flashes of power that it All in all, Mr...
...A Church marshaled in battle order by the Catholics there...
...upon your knowledge of Mexican history, nor upon previous Two other portraits stand out vividly in a play abounding interest in his character...
...Therefore I am more interested And yet, it was a decade in which lay latent the germ of in Patrick Kearney's play as it stands than in discussions of much that was best in its successors...
...It never jumps to of Austria, encouraged by Napoleon III to attempt the forma- attention as the drums of tragedy beat high...
...the play-in spite of the vast labor applied to building up Perhaps-the drawback to a mode of treatment which undersentimental sympathy for him...
...Catholic missionaries and their companions...
...is certainly one reason why such a book as Sir Bernard Pares's There is no doubt that he is right in this and in his further History is important...
...To the growing scepticism of the pres- "free Church in a free state" of De Lamennais, without that ent day, much of this work would possess but an academic in- unfortunate cleric's academic heresies...
...The method of the volume is clear and well-regulated to serve practical purposes of devotion, as well as to render in a fit CONTRIBUTORS manner the ancient usages which the Church throughout its REV...
...It is of importance because of the honest comment it supplies concerning the life and personages of the time during which Abbot Guibert served God-comment on monasteries and the fortunes of the Church, glimpses of Saint Anselm, Rufus the Red, and the fighting nobles of Laon, etchings of beliefs and traditions current among many...
...senses the power that will some day be his, when he has become Your interest in Werfel's Maximilian does not depend the complete master of his voice...
...A whole corps [he is speaking of the Order a hundred for distribution campaign of Lee and Bragg] was taken from one and added to the other, and again brought back when it had served its purpose with as great ease as if they had been within a few THE COMMONWEAL hours' march of one another...
...It is a statement all black and BOOK S all white with none of those shadings so important to an under- The Dreadful Decade: Detailing Some of the Phases of the standing of a complex situation...
...Robfacing the treachery of his French allies, facing the tragedy of inson's series of sharply etched portraits is rapidly becoming his wife's approaching dementia, and, at last, facing the de- one of the premier exhibits of the Theatre Guild...
...The book is refreshingly free MARY CAROLYN DAMES is the author of Youth Riding, Drums In Our Street, and other books of poems...
...as a common adventurer by order of Benito Juarez, then the Lunt has given doer the obvious chances for theatrical effect dictator of Mexican liberalism...
...which fails to account for the functioning of either the body But apart from this service, Sir Bernard's large volume or the mind with which it deals...
...Clearly association with men whose tastes and customs I did not deserve to be beaten, for if he had had the skill in' demand the finest things--vide the clubman...
...Nevertheless, the style of the narrative is commendably pleasing and H A LTMAN & Coo lends itself to the pleasure of those who read for pleasure...
...Its narrative "hits the high spots" of the decade or, to quote the scenes are too broken, its glimpses of events in Clyde Griffith's foreword, "chronicles the more unusual . . . political, physical, life too fragmentary, to build up the necessary absorption in moral, military, and financial calamities...
...effects on all its performance may concern...
...And there is modern be- is valuable because it is history of a superior kind...
...But his vocal Macbeth...
...His I believe, one that could never stand on its own feet...
...After has not pierced its mark...
...The victims were sore and Dreadful Decade, the "strange" story of the 'seventies, as its angry...
...Its dramatic suspense...
...Body and soul consti- which, even after the great war has taught an unparalleled tute one integral unity in minded control...
...East Wind, by Amy Lowell...
...obvious, circle, which could not be brought to any conclusion, much less understood...
...The three years immediately following his novitiate were spent in what he himself T HERE are persons of a certain temperament, endowed with much religiosity but little religion, who yearn for the described as the happy retirement of a Roman cloister, but in r88o he was recalled to this country and then sent down to middle-ages as a period when religious belief and practice the Argentine to minister to the spiritual needs of the Irish were romantic...
...It is worth remembering, however, when reading Mr...
...the Indian wars and Custer's massacre, the entire Grant adAnd they, of course, will compose the initial audiences...
...gregation of the Passion, is much more suggestive of some of Advancing years and the infirmities due to all this labor and the great apostles in the history of the Catholic Church or of stern endurance apparently left his spirit as youthful and full the Jesuit missionaries of the sixteenth and seventeenth of the thirst for adventure in the cause of Christ as ever...
...At several points, you might leave the many thousands of annual subscribers provide it with a gener- theatre as comfortably as after the conclusion of any part of ous budget at the beginning of each season with which it can the Wagnerian trilogy...
...First of all, there is the Cartesian dualism own milieu was better known than it was...
...The definition of lying delphia: H. L. Kilner and Company...
...scandal, bloodshed, and corruption...
...Werfel has not quite achieved this objective...
...these Irish exiles and consolidated a work that was threatened To such persons the present life of Father Fidelis may be by disruption and failure...
...In addition, there are other delicious bits of characterization, of which the following description of a mediaeval T14...
...ographer-and one suspects that the fault is not entirely As if to provide for the simultaneous debut of its entire Werfel's...
...But it does seem to good behavior has interested Professor Lee for many years...
...It is curious that a writer cannot be neglected by any careful student of philosophy and who sees so clearly the failure of materialism should fall into especially by those who are dissatisfied with the popular "be- such opposite thickets of incomprehensibility when he comes havioristic" psychology of the day...
...It is significant that he, a New England conCouncils of Trent and the Vatican and molded into the spir- vert of English descent, entering an atmosphere charged with itual life of her children by such saints as Ignatius Loyola and tension and misunderstanding because of Irish fears of being Alfonso Liguori seems, to these neo-mediaevalists, to have "Italianized" or "Anglicized," should have won the hearts of abandoned her part as the nursing mother of high romance...
...New York: Alfred fully agree...
...Our choice would be The Note-Book in the separate detail ; deduction is too dull or too difficult...
...He Gate-Legged Table, a peculiar and very dramatic narrative quotes Herbert Spencer for a definition of ethics as the science of insane neuroticism...
...Though modern readers may occasionally be a little shocked by the mediaeval plain speech of Entire CoWet2ti copyrighted, 1926, by B. J?ltntntm r`.: C,,,._ the Abbot, his work is a valuable and beautiful document which, in its present attractive form, ought to become widely known among those who cherish an interest in the middle-ages...
...On the other hand, she had an instinct for merce...
...J. L. J. KIRLIN typical in every way of the generation in which he flourished...
...DANIEL J. MCKENNA is a poet, lawyer, and writer on public affairs...
...One hesitates to say that any of the entirely with getting the facts of news interest and arranging versified stories included in East Wind is essentially great, them in interesting order...
...No part of the produce 'Forties, The Mauve Decade, and others...
...Their value is greatly enhanced by the voluminous Even the time of acquisition of a soul is indefinite...
...ing his voice convey the same dramatic notes as his face and In that, and in the universal analogy which their decisions body...
...of civic institutions as they are...
...Such details have not the journalistically those of religious persecution, the relation between the Church piquant appeal of subjects like Victoria Woodhull and the and Scripture and between Anglicanism and papal authority: Naked Truth...
...Werfel has taken this stark in favor of honest characterization...
...Author of "One Hour With Him," "Our Tryst With Him...
...There was no middle ground-except, not allowed him to overlook the scandalous...
...Coulton says, distinguished by a renaissance of thought and civilization in Europe which is almost comparable to the renaissance of two centuries and a half later...
...On that score, the production year, moreover, there is an added point of interest in the crea- is quite worthy of its material...
...He has drawn one of those crafty prelates sense-that of individual biography-do we find unity...
...James Kent Stone's boyhood and early life, as revealed in The reader who likes to see his hero in his habit as he lived, the present volume, gave clear indications of that fineness of will be grateful to Father Fidelis's biographers for giving us character-of a soul bien nee-which was so apparent in the those little touches which show the great convert and missionbeautiful interlude, for it proved to be but that, of his married ary as a very human and lovable personality, and temper the life and in that later period when a greater Love demanded awe inspired by his austerities and his achievements as organall his affections and energies...
...terity...
...It supplies, better than any other work statement that of all philosophies, materialism makes the great- we know, the background which is essential to a comprehending est demands on man's credulity...
...The writer has evidently and admittedly been much influenced by Alexander's Space, Time, and Deity, and from time BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE...
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...If it does not reveal business man as defining business, "service for profit...
...For all their confidence in what we generally incline to regard as superstitions, the early middle-ages, as Abbot Guibert describes them, were already in touch with Latinity and polite letters...
...FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK The Autobiography of Guibert, translated by C. C. Swinton Bland...
...He has not yet succeeded in makmake stupendous decisions and to abide by the consequences...
...Grand Central Terminal, New York, N. Y. Hardman's letters to the Antipodes throw interesting light 618 THE COMMONWEAL October 27, 1926 on a complacent generation which had little conception of creation of God-a simpler and far more comprehensible, not how many problems its complacency was bequeathing to pos- to say reasonable, explanation than what we have just read...
...tion of a Mexican empire...
...de Sevigne, Horace Walpole or Fanny Burney called upon to take mental bearings in our complex 60 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N. Y. and sophisticated age What lends interest to the budget of gossip and small beer bequeathed by Sir William Hardman, a second instalment of whose letters to a friend in Australia has been published, is just this strange obsolescence, though sixty years have not Ottl~t t. fihitIjaet' £~ passed since he flourished in London...
...and to instill in the mind of the reading pupil an understanding ALFRED BATTLE BEALLE is associate editor of the Birmingham News of Alabama...
...A distinctive feature of Father Fidelis's journeyings was the A friend of the late Father Fidelis once described him as enormous distances traversed by him on the South American "the Newman of New England...
...in the national story, to ward off misconceptions and prejudices, MARIE DE L. WELCH is one of the editors of the San Francisco Review, and a contributor of poetry to the magazines...
...The tortured workings of his mind are laid bare to Eames's portrait of Carlotta, a vibrancy of emotion which us, and it is from this, and this alone, that the play lays claim slips through quite unclouded by technique or that cerebral to our interest, captures our emotional response, and sum- quality which has been characteristic of much of her past work...
...the treatment is pedagogically adequate...
...Probably the best section of Professor Manion's author of 1001 Nights of Opera...
...i.8o...
...Rather, it recalls the apostolic career army chaplain...
...The present play is very crude in spots...
...Seitz's narrative has color and movement ; evidences...
...Alfred Lunt has been given the role of Maximilian, the United States was engaged in civil war...
...and now president of Holy Cross College, is the author of several standard works on the history of education...
...The mere catalogue of the names of the countries two men there was, perhaps, enough similarity to justify the in which he labored is impressive-Argentine, Brazil, Chileexpression, but James Kent Stone's career after his conversion a tour in Spain, a period of poverty and trial in Cuba, one to Catholicism and especially after his entrance into the Con- of spiritual consolation and physical hardship in Texas...
...plement to the Theatre Guild program notes...
...October 27, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 617 The Letters and Memoirs of Sir William Hardman: Second One Macmillan Book a Week -Series, 2863-x865, edited by S. M. Ellis...
...After that the narrative unfolds, what it is not...
...Were they to appear among us, we feel that a very slight reorientation would put them into touch with At your bookstore or from all that is being said and done today...
...Abe Lincoln...
...In so intense a spirit of faith did Father of Saint Vincent Ferrer or the life of the venerable Jesuit Fidelis live that his death in California five years ago seems Azevedo...
...The French em- and in many respects, it is the finest work I have ever seen peror gave Maximilian the support of French troops, and then, him do...
...For so uninstructed was he that he retained incorrectly what he had, as I have said before, cone badly learnt late in life, and if he let anything slip out (in, cautiously as it were) he maintained and defended it with The CLUB WINDOW Says: blows, regarding all his opinions as certainly true...
...If Fiske is as stated, for a master...
...This, however, is liberals, and all self-seeking treachery on the side of the cleri- buncombe...
...Today the names of Dostoyevsky, Pushkin and a world of chance of any order at all, the emergence of life, Tolstoy are included in the universal vocabulary and to them with its series of forms and organs, the final appearance of in- others are constantly being added...
...The mate- will be a divination and practical understanding of the Russian rialistic scientist has a truly marvelous appetite for the mind is an open question...
...We hear of the Russian historians...
...and Murdock Aves...
...And a brilliant director can do the same offering Franz Werfel's massive play based on the tragic and with the weaker portions of a play...
...We do not find here the the play as her own for sheer mute tragedy...
...The form of this autobiography was suggested by Saint Augustine's Confessions, which served as the prototype for a kind of literature that was extremely popular...
...JAMES BURNS, C.Q.C., former president of Notre Dame University, long history has preserved and cultivated...
...But ministration, in fact, until "the dreadful decade was ended," by restating the book in stage terms, lie has had to risk criti- are passed in review...
...and the emergence religious Protestantism...
...One is conscious of a nervous strain that defeats itself...
...With much of what the author says we can A History of Russia, by Bernard Pares...
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...Both men were summoned against their will to mastery is still inadequate...
...A brilliant writer can make even the dull moments repertory company, the Theatre Guild has selected for its initial of history throb...
...r ----....-- - -_--------- ..•"AND now with a prayer to the most excellent Mary patron of heaven and earth, with Denys lord of all France, let me bring my book to an end," wrote Guibert, abbot of Nogent-Sows-Coucy, thus concluding one of the most interesting of mediaeval autobiographies...
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...One is that of Clara Eames as the tragic Emficiently common type to give him universal interest, placed press Carlotta, and the other the Porfirio Diaz of Edward G. before us dramatically at the periods of his most difficult de- Robinson...
...to grips with the real objects of his search...
...620 THE COMMONWEAL October 2'7, 192 Business Ethics, by James Melvin Lee...
...In the early lives of the continent...
...That the exacting nature I think that as much pure happiness can be secured among of his life's work as a Passionist did not entirely submerge the them as from anything else on earth . . . They seem to me to taste for literature which he had formed in his earlier years be the holiest as well as the highest things in God's creation, we can gather from several of his letters, one of them conand in the midst of their purity and solemnity one seems very taining some excellent criticism of John Inglesant and others near to Him who is `higher than the highest of His works...
...The seventy years between 1053 and 1124 were, as Dr...
...Mass, the Holy Week ceremonies, the rites for festivals, conGEORGE MARIANO...
...might be reduced to "intentional deception...
...Of rather than more crimson aspects the following might have the ethical aspects of the play, those who have read the book been touched upon : the advocacy before Congress, by Senator can judge for themselves...
...None the less, he is struck by the changes foreshadowed through the wholesale use of rail-com- Ten cents a copy, Seven dollars a hundred munication in war...
...with an introduction by G. G. Coulton...
...In nearly all the modern codes of business ethics by the Sacred Congregation of Rites...
...Seitz's Sondra Finchely unexpectedly sympathetic...
...But the existence of this literature miraculous...
...While science has insisted that material effects must have T HE stature of Russia has altered during recent years adequate material causes, it has not been equally ready to admit from the "giant of the steppes" to the sinister "red terror," that spiritual effects must have adequate spiritual causes...
...New York: The After this very incomprehensible account it will not be surMacmillan Company...
...Of the acting, there is also tion of a permanent acting company, which will form the much to be said-and presently...
...Hardman was very much in the line of the sort of gossip Opens in September, 1926 that did not often get beyond clubs and messes...
...married life-his wife died within six years of the marriage- American Catholics will feel that this is an important book, added to the sum of his experience and deepened that knowl- for it records a life that ranks with those of Father Hecker, edge of human nature which was of so great value to him in Archbishop Ireland, Cardinal Gibbons, Maurice Francis Egan, his later work as preacher, confessor and missionary...
...Francis was successof legend eight years ago, proves to have been remarkably fully produced by the Tavern Club in Boston, forbearing in his use of material...
...And in whom antique British fiction abounded but whose puerile of all forms, that unity is the most difficult to present in obviousness would in real life inevitably defeat his own ends...
...I recommend the above passage from Hannay as a sup- past twenty odd years...
...October 27, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 615 Which leads to a remark on Werfel's statement of the Mexican problem of Church and state...
...on which this play is based...
...A hard-working and Nereid (238th St...
...We have, rather, a series of one-act plays-of Maxi- foil to Maximilian's inner sensitiveness, that he quite overmilian facing the decision between liberalism and conservatism, shadows the intended power of the unseen Juarez...
...Though there would naturally be argument about many a passage in the book, the author's impartial temper and rigorous regard for fact are never in doubt...
...All through the rest of it are mingled cases for that sort of analysis and quota- Ceremonial for the Use of the Catholic Churches in the tions of varying assertions by varying minds concerning such United States of America, by W. Carroll Milholland...
...Bland's translation, commended by his editor, is lively 77Le a ly Loyreet ~jarrer J ey wear and charming...
...Dreadful" serves as well as any other adjective to sum up the decade in question...
...history is devoted to the settlement and colonization of the BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE is professor of anthropology in Saint Michael's College, Toronto, and the author of many books on science and religious present United States...
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...in David Hannay's life of Diaz...
...Logic is "one of those things in but many of them are beautiful in a kind of morbid, even college" to him...
...With his entry into the Passionist novitiate in 1877, at Fidelis of the Cross: James Kent Stone, by Walter George the age of forty, Fidelis of the Cross, as he was henceforth to Smith and Helen Grace Smith...
...The emergence of the soul presupposes a tions, its genuine aspirations to sanctity, its gradual blending creative contribution from the cosmos to the life-stream with with the civil power, and its tragic final adventures, exempliits heredity...
...Where, then, does the of the Orthodox Church, its contest with heresies and defecsoul come from...
...This attempt was made while Mr...
...In the physical portrayal of this all, it matters little to us whether Hamlet ever existed-or character, Mr...
...Thus, Goodman's direction of this play is swift and intelligentthe "dreadful decade," actually, is not all a chronicle of crime, perhaps the best that could be done with disjointed material...
...The remedy...
...cision between utter abandonment of his project and almost Arnold Daly's clear and decisive attack as Marshal Bazaine certain death...
...She knew a great up by trade associations, business clubs, and industrial or mer- deal about poetry, and she achieved wonders in making it cantile houses...
...of masterly individuals-a way justified by the canons of "We must go back for historic orientation, not to Descartes, historical writing because of the peculiar destiny of Russia but to Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas...
...cast for the role of the heavy villain in the Gold Corner plot, When it is not depicting Clyde's seduction of Roberta Alden Jay Gould is not whitewashed ; and I feel that the additional with a crass reality, it grows obstetrical in the doctor's office vice of hypocrisy makes him the more guilty of the two...
...Whether or not the result telligence and a sense of beauty-all are miracles...
...The next phase...
...This rarely beautiful and effective...
...In the play, all civic virture is on the side of Diaz's Gibbs, that "now at last it can be told...
...It is not the fusion of the two of the nation...
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...CLU 100}-MAN school-master may serve as an example: "Now the love this man had for me was of a savage sort, and excessive severity was Being well-dressed is simply the natural result o f shewn by him in his unjust floggings...
...Nothing is so past as the near-past...
...REGINA WALSH and JOHN HANLON are occasional contributors of poetry to the magazines...
...to time we seem to catch the note of Lloyd Morgan's Emergent Evolution...
...To have written and published such a book is to have benefited Gentlemen's Clothing and Furnishings the English-speaking world...
...that presidential ape and Yankee idiotic buffoon, Mr...
...His con- and others like them who have helped to build up the tradition version to Catholicism in 1869 bore fruit in his book, The of a cultured and earnest Catholicism in their country-the Invitation Heeded...
...indeed, one of the pleasures in reading this book has been to However, this necessary sacrifice is compensated for by discover a modern philosopher who knows and appreciates the a discerning way of making the story hinge upon the career Angel of the Schools...
...Its fidelity is, however, most questionable, as rilh qveninn e2yesf aye avhafe kcal critics have clearly observed...
...New York: G. P. Putnam's call himself, found his permanent vocation in the organized Sons...
...Lytton Strachey, whose monograph so effectively broke the atmosphere THIS one-act play about St...
...It is not fate the pathos of heroic futility, the tragedy of mistaken idealism, nor circumstance that crushes Maximilian, but his own unand the eternal vitality which centers about the mental tor- solved inner conflict, an idealism that soars far beyond his ture of any man who is called upon to make decisions of high own power to achieve, and therefore falls, like the arrow that moment against the whole trend of his inner character...
...Few of the other characters broken faith with his prefatory promise to tell his tale without live as much more than types, although Miriam Hopkins makes partisan coloring...
...NUMBER THREE There are unedifying details on Thackeray's later days and conversation, and a good deal on the Dickens domestic imbroglio, discreditable to the great novelist...
...FREDERICK H. MARTENS is musical critic for several periodicals and the heart reposes...
...Of particular interest to western readers will be the career With all that we can fully agree...
...With his scandal...
...There is a new depth and tenderness in Miss cisions...
...Boston: Allyn and DR...
...The pace of Maximilian what has often been called the ghastly story of Maximilian and Juarez is too slow and measured...
...analysis is taking things apart to study in terrible, way...
...Bacon...
...New York: The BRIEFER MENTION Ronald Press...
...It is one integral pattern...
...aside, in 1872, by Congress as "a public park or pleasure 616 THE COMMONWEAL October 27, 1926 ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people," the terri- still maintain a precarious footing on the middle ground of tory known as Yellowstone National Park...
...For he is all of that-from what boyancies of an extravagantly criminal and vulgar epoch are I have read of the book and gathered from both hearsay and strung on an easily running thread of fluent journalese writing...
...The appearance in literature...
...course between Rome and scepticism...
...S. M. a constructive sense can we attribute soul to the embryo or Ellis, often of a frankness which surpasses Hardman's none even to the infant...
...religious life of the Catholic Church...
...with incidental music arranged by C. M. Loeffler...
...Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Comof this particular situation, but I find the following pany...
...In more ways than can be ment is followed in the discussion of the psychology of today...
...One has the sense of listening to a leisurely bitain artists in a wide variety of roles...
...souls of the parents...
...distance of 2,000 miles...
...What are we to make of that cryptic statement...
...heartily recommended...
...For unless it be taken as a laboratory of 1876, which gave the entire nation a broader economic and study in dementia, one can only regard it as misleading senti- industrial outlook and supplied a distinct impetus toward the mentality or as an attempt to negate personal responsibility development of a higher American creative art...
...from jingoism, even though its treatment of such periods as KATHRYN WHITE RYAN, poet and short-story writer, is the author of that of the Revolution leaves no doubt as to where the author's Golden Pheasant...
...WITH HIM IN MIND VICTOR HUGO has told us that no man is so unlike the generation into which he survives as the man who was By MSGR...
...A man's body is lesson of solidarity, permitted a small group of intellegentsia not the same in actuality when the soul is present as when it is to seize control of its fortunes...
...His Maximilian becomes episode and, by dint of a searching study of the mind of the type of defeated humanity-defeated because self-conquest Maximilian himself, fashioned from it a play brimming with has not preceded the attempt at outer conquest...
...The Federals are "Lincoln and all his production may be secured from THE COMMONvile lot from Washington," the great sad President himself WEAL...
...a soul as "the outcome of a process of creative interaction," T. C. for "to develop a soul requires continuous exchange with soul in the cosmos...
...how far it re-creates the characters of the book...
...He has followed such Obligations in charity are hopelessly confused with obliga- authorities as Martinucci, Joseph Halgy, and Adrian Fortescue tions in justice, both as to arrangement and as to such solution in minor points upon which no definite instructions are given as is given...
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...Indeed, Abbot Guibert supplies a counterpart of Saint Monica in his own SMARTLY DRESSED M E N mother, who is set forth in words so loyal and charming that they become almost one of the rarest portraits of motherhood No...
...GEORGE D. MEADOWS is a general critic for current periodicals...
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...that all her compromises with prose, her polyphony and inHe is the head of the School of Journalism of New York tellectualism, betray a fundamental innate inability to know University, and as "lecturer," he manages the required course any of the things her beloved Keats had accomplished so in business ethics in the New York University School of Com- spontaneously...
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...PAUL CROWLEY is well known among the New York book reviewers...
...The tranquil, steady love for his dead wife his parents during his Harvard years are particularly attractive and the solicitude for his children contradict the impression in their combination of a youthful naivete, unusually mature of want of affection which a superficial reader, not knowing powers of observation and description, and a keen receptiveness or admitting his spiritual viewpoint, might base on the fact to feelings and impressions beyond that of the average American that when he felt justified in following his vocation to the college youth...
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...The author THE closest fidelity to approved Roman custom insures the leaves us uncertain as to the moral quality of the "not at correctness which the reverend author aspires to promote in home" phrase...
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...The Black Friday of 1869, the book overboard, except for its theme, and written a well- the Fiske murder, the Panic of 1873, the "Virginius" affair, built play, the Dreiser enthusiasts would have mobbed him...
...G. K. CHESTERTON is the distinguished English poet, novelist, and controversial writer...
...the setting by a sort of shallow determinism...
...that many readers will enjoy essaying a comparison of this Early in the book the reader is introduced to the principle collection with the dialect poems that came from the pen of considering an act with regard to its probable and possible of Tennyson...
...The subject of modern business in its relations once again an object of popular interest...
...plan its program of plays long in advance and avoid the slap- The Theatre Guild's settings for this series of episodes are dash methods of many strictly commercial producers...
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...History of the United States from Reconstruction to ResumpI do not pretend to have any deep historical knowledge tion, by Don C. Seitz...
...He is, primarily, a man of a suf- in good acting...
...not forgotten ; and an entire chapter-which to many will Morgan Farley, except for an overtenseness at all times, seem out of proportion-is devoted to the Beecher and Tilton does remarkably well with the material given him...
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...Kirlin's sincere leave behind them to confound us with a view of life abso- and forceful exposition of the Apostles' Creed draws the lutely at variance with our own...
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...The possibility is important enough to have whole process of evolution becomes a succession of miracles driven most thoughtful men to a careful reading of Russian without intelligible ground in the process...
...614 THE COMMONWEAL October 27, 1926 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Maximilian and Juarez theatrical terms...
...The whole of this little posthumous of determining what makes for happiness...
...Nor need we feel surprised to be told that rendered much more readable had it been subjected to a "Jesus remains for us the choicest incarnation of cosmic genius process of judicious pruning, but none the less it is one which in the warm flesh of mother earth...
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...JOHN SHERRY MANGAN is well known as a translator of the classics book for secondary schools in a spirit of scholarly enthusiasm...
...The same stream of argu- reading of the Slavic authors...
...The human being, if we can so call the too guarded references to the foibles of the men and women creature, remains a kind of Undine until it receives-if everwith whom he came in contact...
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...But in the direction, there nucleus of all its productions and give the New York public is little brilliancy to make up for the one essential defect of a much coveted opportunity of watching the versatility of cer- the play...
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...Great spirits like Augustine, minds of his readers into areas of contemplation where thought Montaigne, Bacon, or our own Henry Adams belong to no loses its way in the Divine...
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...narrative, a gift for dialect writing, and a mastery of pointed But the author's mind is singularly reportorial, concerned psychological phrasing...
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...T HE opening of the Theatre Guild season has, quite justly, If the play holds your attention and sympathy almost to the become one of the most important annual theatrical events...
...end, it is because of its succession of great moments...
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Vol. 4 • October 1926 • No. 25
