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Eliot, John & Brennecke, Ernest Jr. & Walsh, Thomas & Tondorf, Francis A. & Shuster, George N.
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...Their author was a man before and after he became a There is clothing at Altman Square bookman...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Com11'len's Christian Association...
...Thompfew weeks ago, pointed out, no single interest is so heavily son's authority for the spirit which was already presiding over vested just now, nor the concern of so many powerful parties, British punitive action...
...Major Majendie writes home that they exhibited "an amount It is not an unfair conclusion to make that what time is to of terror very entertaining to behold...
...Their memory, he contends, really lies at the bottom convictions if they see fit to defend themselves against Clissold's of the hostility of the Hindu masses to the dominant power, diatribes...
...To begin with, Sir Walter was a very active figure in a very active age...
...At Peshawar, where an abortive rising as the cultivation of good relations, official and unofficial, be- had been nipped in the bud, the pious soldier writes home...
...Yet he cannot dismiss the susStrauss...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Thompson is at of stones close to their feet...
...with Rossetti's "But rapid as the phrase seems to imply...
...Its recognition to drag truth from the well into which policy has thrust it...
...When Mr...
...644 THE COMMONWEAL November 3, 1926 lover...
...Three or four of her poems, like those of her brother, make $50.00 to $100.00 a cheap fool of Browning-and leave E. B. B. barely human...
...Here the world is better than GEORGE N. SHUSTER...
...Two volumes, $5.oo...
...New York: George H. square gallows was erected...
...production at the hands of the younger American poets...
...self...
...A man who had been a leisurely epicure of antique English beauty ended as the awed surveyor of young martial WHAT one might term a wise romanticism runs through effort...
...The tribute of "well-balanced" paid organic chemistry of life evidently carries with it the insinuation that life, in its origin, is but the expression of chemical forces...
...But York: Harcourt, Brace and Company...
...theless, the reader may- thank Mr...
...This consists brilliant passages is wasted upon historical personages of exin beginning at the first page and walking steadily through to tremely slight importance now...
...5.oo...
...himself, like a child...
...This "creative revolution" is to be brought about by an This impression remains after a conscientious reading of the open conspiracy of all our Clissolds and Clissoldites, working 230,000 words in the present novel, called "a novel at a new toward a liberal world press, replacing militant ideals with angle" ; though what that means is not quite apparent, unless police ideals, and setting our youths free from our absurdly it has reference to the fact that here the "story" or "plot" mediaeval educational systems...
...If I had them in Star-gazers soon realized that larger pictures of and more light my power today and knew that I was to die tomorrow, I from these sentries of the night were needed...
...Thompson tells us that it was borrowed plied into the millions...
...for the flaying alive, impalement or burning of the murderers The blame evidently lay in the untrustworthiness of the eye...
...Henley was a much richer, greater, more generous nature than R. L. S. You couldn't quarrel with Henley-not to last-because the minute you showed a touch of magnanimity The CLUB WINDOW Says or affection, he ran at you, and gave you everything and abased b6 brown fell hat st -.rap...
...Perhaps that was his real destiny...
...Sex equality, indeed, is one of the features of his one welcomes a banal fragment of a waltz tune in one of the vision, with men and women pairing as "mated colleagues" in more needlessly complex and abstruse tone-poems of Richard their enlightened enterprises...
...vaguest fashion, to the fact that it was in all deliberation Only centuries of research on lenses lifted the haze...
...Sister Eleanore proves in publishing his English versions of the great ballades once again that nuns are usually bright and sufficiently amiable of Francois Villon side by side with the masterly versions made people-not birds in a cage, but spirits made free in a garden...
...Soldiers come, is this inert resistance to revising a judgment once set- and civilians alike were holding bloody assizes or slaying tled...
...Stars, which had been counted in the thousands, multimay be imagined...
...When we are told that rectitude and scholarship, and for such qualities of poetry as "Peter fell, only to rise to the heights of heroic sanctity," we they possess : but when we compare John Payne's line: "But suspect also that the ascension was neither so colorless nor so what is become of last year's snow...
...General is interpreted by the stress the Black Hole of Calcutta, and ignore the seventy editors, on the jacket of the book, to mean average...
...He himself was definite pathos gleams through them too...
...Wells really wishes superficial changes that have occurred in his world during to be held responsible for it...
...But paradoxically enough, the greatest charm of these letters lies in their having been written almost without exception to people not of the first importance-to scholars and friends, to the wives SMARTLY DRESSED MEN of poets, to auxiliary statesmen and retiring publicists...
...0 Lord, I have got hold of an overlooked by the student because he was certainly one of ass...
...scientist, historian, economist and sociologist, he has created Any realm which may exist outside it is dismissed as "metaout of these changes observed on the surfaces of things, an physical," "mystical," altogether unworthy of the attention of ecstatic vision, an inspirational system of belief in a humanity a modern positivist...
...and with the full knowledge of Hindu religious beliefs, adopted In 1882, David Gill, then Her Majesty's astronomer, inanew to throw the shadow of misery in eternity over the last augurated the first practical application of photography to the punishment time could inflict...
...we indicate the difference place and many will doubtless come to like them intensely...
...his lifetime with the sensitivity, excitement, credulity, and To begin with, the visible, audible, tangible realm of sensavoluble enthusiasm of the serious amateur...
...picion that the female is essentially an inferior being, a posThe core of the book lies, of course, in the spread-out, en- session of the male: "Man may explore new worlds alone," veloping exposition of Clissold's great scheme...
...of them by Rossetti, Swinburne, and Arthur Symons...
...Vincent Millay, but never in too obvidred alone may be attributed to Mr...
...He said many beautiful and true Entire contents copyrighted, 1926, by n..t1tman & Co things, but he was not humble...
...aged, women, and children are sacrificed, as well as those Taking a very wide, and at times a charitable view, it may guilty of rebellion.' Englishmen did not hesitate to boast, or be conceded that the British imperialism has, on the whole, to record their boasting in writing, that they had `spared no worked for good and has been a very powerful influence in one' and that peppering away at `niggers' was a very pleasant the world-wide distribution of those interests which Catholics pastime, `enjoyed amazingly.' " Who is speaking...
...New of its bowels, before they can be served up for consumption...
...Together they faced the disarray of culture which characterized the ending century, and together they were forced to stiffen themselves for the war...
...An age which has delighted in saying naughty things about I T was inevitable that the books of Quevedo should find professors might do its soul a service by listening to Sir Walter their way into the Broadway Translations, that series being state the case from the professor's point of view: "I have some planned to include classics which, for one reason or another, odd people to lecture to," he remarks in one place...
...designed for just such men---suits which But because Sir Walter dealt with books, as his Essays on attain smartness not through tricks of Johnson have proved to every worth-while person's satisfaction, cut and finish but by way of faultless it is most pleasant to wander through this correspondence for style and meticulous tailoring critical remarks not to be included in more sedate pronounceIn any of the accepted weaves or colourings ments...
...Air Force...
...Regardless, therefore, of the faintness likes to think that its essential decency is one of the world's of the light, the cumulative impressions of light leave their axioms...
...automobile accident...
...The above-named unilateral silence which has reigned for seventy years shall brochure discusses whatever progress has materialized in this be broken once and for all, remains the text of his startling direction...
...vapors of his Fabian sociology...
...of the women and children at Delhi...
...In this case, the black-haired doctor in the town comes, and professes himself edge of Spanish satire is jagged and scurrilous enough...
...and no betterment will be possible until the evil influence which But there the usefulness of the book ends...
...Marriage and other figured through directed or spontaneous aberrations of natural customs, government and other institutions, become obsolete...
...York: George H. Doran Company...
...IV portunity to use quite freely his exceptional gift of epigram...
...and the pertinence of many gages himself in "pithing" them as he calls it...
...the a devotee of poetry...
...Stimulated by the advances of his predecesof a better understanding between rulers and ruled, are unhelp- sors, the modern astronomer was dared into attacking the ful or unconstructive...
...This draught of potent old ideas of its past and fights to sustain the ancient hallucinations, the induced in him a fantasy of himself as another Baptist, crying new must counter with its tale of great bridges and canals and in the wilderness, trying desperately to bring clarity and lucid- embankments, of mighty ships and beautiful machines, of the ity into his world...
...FRANCIS A. TOI`DORF...
...computed, their orbits conjectured, and their distances scaled "Let us propose a bill (it is Nicholson, speaking after Delhi) on unstandardized measures...
...Is it Wells's he says, "but he cannot establish himself unless he bring his scheme also...
...Duff informs us in his excellent tioningly, shrewdly, anxiously Sir Walter grew to understand introduction, permitted himself to enjoy the luxury of a Stoic the real cosmic seriousness and heartbreak of the war is to me philosophy...
...Not only was the behavior of the conquerors of mistress of the sciences...
...In the same city, after its pains to tell Americans that Indian affairs are none of their capture, says Thomas Rice Holmes, in his History of the business) take his disconcerting footnote to British imperialism...
...P. Ker and he liked it (he said) better earnest could not fail to shed much valuable light upon the than our Lord Rector's Address, which (he added) was not state of society...
...possible authority and validity...
...I venture in sequence, comments as they occur to me, worrying through the chapter...
...New York: Boni and Liveright...
...Thompson, "when one side controls history or the and should be so lived as to shape us for an existence far trans- press, then underground bitterness becomes something too cending all terrestrial comprehension, when we have once poisoned and ferocious for expression...
...At 646 THE COMMONWEAL November 3,x926 the siege of Delhi, where "poor devils" bringing the sahibs' catechists to write an essay on the mutiny...
...There is nothing falser than 648 THE COMMONWEAL November 3, 1926 the shop-window work called literature...
...In fact, it ex- What are the facts that present themselves to the average plicitly denies anything of the sort: the individual is not even educated American when the Indian Mutiny of 1857 is mennecessary to himself...
...Only batches, etc., etc...
...It must tell of lives lit up and life invigorated, of of education, punctuated by his famous "model textbook," the new releases and new freedoms and happiness ensured...
...SIXTH FLOOR The popular verdict often spurred him to contemptuousness...
...wistful songs, Ann Hamilton respires thankfully the friendly Out of the bulk of some three hundred pages, the first hun- breeziness of Edna St...
...In many burne : "But no good girl's lip out of Paris...
...Every youth sent dinners were forced to run the gauntlet of the enemy's fire, in a sheet of blank paper...
...It is not suffocated Moplah prisoners of our railway-vans: we must no apparent that anyone unfamiliar with the fundamentals of longer stress Cawnpore, and ignore Benares and Delhi and astronomy, would find entertainment in its reading...
...No penalty the cruelest tyrant studies of the heavens...
...Our object is to make an example to terrify others...
...William is disillusioned in his own marriage, and self from a servitude to instinctive motives, unreasonable obpasses on to other, more unconventional and slightly more sessions and an embittering concentration upon personal ends successful contacts with women...
...Edward Thompson, who appears to be an subsequent history of reprisals and executions, the well at Englishman long resident in India, gives us the highly inter- Cawnpore casts its extenuating shadow...
...Some dishave most at heart...
...T HE two volumes of reverently gathered notes from a man who might almost be termed the Great Chain of modern professors, are surprisingly interesting for a number of reasons...
...Catalogues of the stars had been attempted, of cruelty, latent in the Anglo-Saxon breed, has only been kept the size and form of the heavenly bodies guessed at rather than hidden from the world by their success...
...Scarcely had the human eye lowered to the level of the lowest "breed without the law," swept the dome of the skies, when man received his first inspirabut the very essence of their thought seems to have suffered tion to divine the secrets of its passes...
...Perhaps, Dr...
...Lepper: the claims of the ous a breath...
...and very soft tones of M The Testaments of Francois Villon, translated by John sentiment make endearing the landscape of life...
...The rest I would divide into which might be called the false conscience of history...
...7.00...
...He had not a good heart...
...Markings on the planets could remain from the practice of the Mogul conquerors in the seventeenth no longer in hiding...
...wide nor very loud...
...With this advance, newer It would be a mistake to think, because Mr...
...The Outline of History, he has returned to his earlier methods of new world we establish is visibly greater and nobler than the harangue...
...the quest of the spirit's goal is a natural, even an every-day thing...
...tween Britain and America...
...November 3, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 645 The spirit of active, militant meliorism in this "system" revision of history, where history is under suspicion of disis generally excellent...
...Within the last thirty-five years he has produced some fifty- But this visible universe of common sense is continually four volumes, of which at least three-fourths may now be shifting...
...Its steps can be has suppressed them is removed...
...tive...
...Manthrown away as either hopelessly redundant or hopelessly kind is gradually growing up...
...fame"-anything that attacks the reputation for tolerance, I think this object would be effectively gained by destroying decency, and humanity behind whose facade her imperial ex- from a quarter to a third of them...
...Lepper gives us the pleasurable, and sadly pleasant aspects of life...
...Among the other volumes of poetry offered for publishers that this is the first complete volume of translations the season, Ann Hamilton's collection comes as a striking reof Villon may be somewhat qualified by a little research...
...No more is Indian boys be compelled to read about the fiendish work at claimed for the opinions advanced than a workable hypothesis...
...Even the which it has set itself, namely, to insist upon a full and frank loyal element in the native population was not spared...
...But the essays have a where are the snows of yesteryear...
...laws, he soon worked his way on to the production of ex- their husks must be cast off, and fresh clean raiment must cellent, if somewhat amorphous, novels such as Mr...
...On the whole, this edition is admirable for judimuch more closely revealed in these random letters than in the ciousness and form...
...Must the characters in our English and American BOOK S novels be forevermore as cleaned of thought as a rabbit is T The World of William Clissold, by H. G. Wells...
...At all events, it the series of essays which Sister Eleanore devotes to a number revealed the source from which his best language was derived...
...moral: "A missionary told the present writer that in his It is regrettable that the author should have felt it necessary earlier and less experienced days he instructed his class of to append the chapter entitled : Man's Place in the Scheme, November 3, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 647 for it is no more than a cotton patch on royal purple...
...His The only thing a reader could regret in her book is the occanew versions are highly creditable, from the point of view of sional absence of adequate psychology...
...The reader is needlessly confused by the "note womankind...
...A good deal Heron Lepper...
...He and his time had acquired the habit of intellectual gymnastics, even while they were learning the rules of specialization...
...The feeling that something of the sort gloriously fighting its way toward ever greater and happier does exist is abandoned at the outset as "the shadow of the ends...
...In ilton, sings with a youthful abandon, touching on the more the Ballade of the Women of Paris, Mr...
...Outbreaks followed, accompanied by wholesale massacres which did not spare women and children...
...It gives finer stuff for that he is cold-sober-assuring them and assuring them ad poetry and-better news for the press...
...So tenuous is this narrative thread that Clissold strikes a less sanguine note when he contemplates one lights on wisps of it with the same eagerness with which woman...
...Thompson's re- gruntled radical or native agitator...
...They are a part of the dark, secret deposit of able to test, possibly to confirm, the validity of many of their history...
...H. G. Wells is undoubtedly a man significant attempt to come to grips with the universe, and utterly intoxicated by novel ideas...
...As a necessary corollary, anything "They were taken fighting against us and so far deserve little that throws a harsh and disturbing light on British "good mercy...
...All these should be shot or blown away from guns that is not altogether disbelief, nor positive dishonesty, but as may be most expedient...
...by, puffing their cigars, and look on at the convulsive struggles A STRONOMY has filed an unequivocal claim to the title of the victims...
...The disAllahabad and Renaud's march on Cawnpore...
...When one side has suconly faltering steps, for the reason that it displays none of ceeded in imposing its version of events on the whole world," the essential knowledge that this matter-of-fact life may be says Mr...
...Thompson does not allude, save in the her phases...
...because the matter contained in it, drawn in nearly every case Thompson has collected as the relish shown, by British army from contemporary records, is too much in line with the task officers as well as men, in the bloody repression...
...it is justified by the memory of atrocities which have become IN A brief preface to The Other Side of the Medal, its a part of Anglo-Saxon race consciousness...
...This fright, he con- write on that blank sheet largely depends a good deal on how fesses, "we increased sometimes, . . . by throwing handfuls Englishmen, in India and elsewhere (Mr...
...panta rei...
...hearten any observer of a much heralded but rarely fulfilled Tuo rAS WALSH...
...Lepper writes : "Death, from thy harshness I appeal," Rossetti in his A Jewelled Screen, by Ann Hamilton...
...most of us have found it to be...
...pany...
...For a spared the women of the subject race, is either unknown or, similar reason, its repercussions in the columns of the major if known, is conveniently suppressed...
...A solution to would inflict the most excruciating tortures on them with a the problem was slow forthcoming...
...Lepper and his publishers A review of this sparrow-flock of singers of 1926 would disfor these excellent versions of the great French balladist...
...Eleanore...
...Too often, martyred truth waves her manacled hands natives without any assize at all, regardless of sex or age...
...1..50...
...Advocates of current institutions will be British name...
...the individual life-span lengthens misdirected and ineffective...
...is not governed by any anti-British feeling at all...
...Neither one nor the markable book a hospitality that other magazines and re- other, but Sir John have, ex-artillery officer and successor to views in this country have not seen their way to accord it, John Stuart Mill as secretary in the political department at The Commonweal would like to make it clear that its action the India office...
...nauseam...
...He has viewed the abandon the inquiry as to how far Mr...
...The French, who are themselves marvelous experts of this the Junior Executive formula of style, lack the delightful human eccentricity of soul which renders the English phrase-maker, when he appears, in- Correct in his dress because he realizes that, imitable...
...In the end, he succumbs so far to "outworn" before the title page" which rather testily warns him against conventionally romantic notions as to assume the role of proconfusing the author's mind with that of his protagonist...
...This general world as something one would fain forget, its terrible was science's first triumph...
...Yet withal, it was as looking through a mist...
...nothing is constant except change...
...Thompson collects are startling in their world of ours is an adequate starting-point for a purely com- unlikeness to anything that we have ever associated with the mon-sense program...
...1.50...
...The categorical statement of man's ascent from u A LTMAN CO anthropoid stock, calls for proof...
...Wells's Britling...
...of favorite saints and ideals...
...its criticism of the existing order is bold coloration or bias, to leave it indifferent to any honest effort and healthy, if occasionally weirdly mistaken...
...tracings on the photographic plate...
...It is important to remember that Quevedo's saying much...
...We may as well criticize this mental world, then, as a possibly HE essential Mr...
...A curiously devised ass, too...
...On June 10, 1857, when we are a month from the crownAs The Commonweal, in noticing a very different book a ing horror of Cawnpore, Sir John Lawrence is Mr...
...2.00...
...between a greater and lesser singing...
...Materialism should have no place where "the heavens tell the glory of God...
...As an amateur tions, of "common sense," is accepted for what it seems to be...
...New York: Harold version declares : "Death, of thee do I make moan," showing J7inal...
...Why should cussion of the evolution of the stars is very fair...
...The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh, edited by Lady Raleigh...
...Surely not much more than this: a rising took place, through which the whole world of William Clissold invites beginning with the fanaticism of certain sepoy soldiers who its own ultimate extinction...
...The necessity of the preexistence of a slow evolution of the earth's crust, to the appearance of animals and plants, so 'claimed by the writer, eliminates the possibility of a direct creation...
...These volumes of letters might almost be termed in business life, personal appearance is as mosaics of "maximes" fashioned confidentially and yet fear- important as personality, lessly...
...A man so scholarly and of my tracts to WV...
...And that denial is the Achilles-heel tioned...
...that in the vocabulary of poetry, as Francis Thompson asserted, there is a higher form, even if not always the clearest or A JEWELLED SCREEN, a book of poems by Ann Hamsimplest, a tradition which is the speech of the anointed...
...was loaded...
...4ncre4a1 J 412 /toJula,tfy...
...New suppression was severe, and even merciless, is not denied...
...Independent, rival nations Tono-Bungay, and The New Machiavelli, in which his talents will find themselves superseded by a world-wide business and as a story-teller rose triumphant over the confusing fogs and scientific organization...
...and utters her unheeded cry before ears that are closed of It is on the records of our British Parliament, in papers sent set purpose and eyes that make it their business to look else- home by the governor-general of India in council that : `the where...
...books, whatever their frankness and mercilessness, were enBut for all the wit and wisdom of the two volumes, a dorsed, and not condemned, by the Inquisition...
...Thompson recalls in his last chapter day the secret of the stars and thus solve man's struggle for is almost significant enough to bear the full weight of his power...
...This informal level of the correspondence gave Sir Walter the op- No...
...Beginning with strange and fas- even as each generation arrives at maturity and self-consciouscinating tales, nightmare-fantasies of worlds destroyed or trans- ness at an earlier age than its predecessor...
...He has bought all Rossetti and all use of allegory, though judiciously curtailed, is nevertheless :Meredith preparatory to my discourses, and in his leisure en- an important literary recourse...
...Indian Mutiny, "the soldiers . . . were said to have bribed the JOHN ELIOT...
...But R. L. S. kept aloof for ten years ~ q1t...
...One can only rest in the fact that the eye is capable of reacting to light of certain amazed and dismayed at finding a quality that can only be intensities only and that the sensitized film, unlike the eye, described as diabolical, latent in the heart of a race which is immune to fatigue...
...In deciding to give Mr...
...z.oo...
...shuffled off this poor three-dimensional coil...
...How jauntily, ques- a loyal Catholic who, as Mr...
...Never- lief from insufficiency, unpreparedness, and general futility...
...Thompson has catalogues of the stars supplanted the older ones, and distances, been fearless in exposing truths hidden till now in letters and shape, color, and brightness of the stars were more readily and little-known memoirs, that his conclusions as to the possibility accurately fixed...
...But even Mr...
...It can be sketched in a few words releases man from traditions, economic usages, social injustices, William Clissold's father commits suicide after his conviction mental habits, needless subserviences and puerile interpretations, as an embezzler...
...In the end available to English readers...
...Over the whole author, Mr...
...If these did not make pansion has gone forward, encounters either incredulity, the up the required number I would then add to them the oldest vague and handy charge of "propaganda," or a sullen attitude soldiers...
...ghost of a doubt...
...and chose his ground with all a Pharisee's skill in selecting sites...
...Jupiter showed his running mates, Venus century...
...No single incident of the mutiny is so outstanding, and, Galileo, quickly applying this finding, assembled the first teleif its shocking memory persists in the consciousness of the scope, an instrument not unlike the one in use today...
...of the vast task of bringing order into this confused visible The facts which Mr...
...those whose work has lain along the obscure and suppressed In Oudh, "long before the Cawnpore massacre," the civilian records of the past know how strong-how difficult to over- population is tasting the dark side of British justice...
...With the war came his sud- "When the old order tootles its trumpets and waves its den discovery of a God, conceived as a coming-to-consciousness flags, obtrudes its tawdry loyalties, exaggerates the splendors of the "mind of the race...
...The earlier results were a subversion that makes one almost believe some dark taint expectedly meagre...
...But insistence that a conspiracy of problem of the structure of the universe...
...William and his brother, fast friends, re- that dwarf, confuse and cripple his life upon this planet, the ceive haphazard educations, marry, and become successful men individual, as he attains an earlier maturity, will liberate himof business...
...That the whole of organic development, from the earliest one-celled protozoa to human Gentlemen's Clothing and Furnishings consciousness and the higher instincts, is trivial and transient from the standpoint of the development of the material cosmos, FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK might meet the assent of intelligent thinkers, were the shifts in this development not bolstered on illogical argument...
...That any atrocities esting and enlightening news items that it has been "long sur- by the ruling race had preceded the tragedy, far less than pressed," apparently at the representations of those who urged it was the culmination of months of repression which had not that "its publication would stir up bitter feeling...
...That the The Other Side of the Medal, by Edward Thompson...
...One cannot hope to meet with general popularity...
...It is really the only volume of Quevedo labored analysis of, say, Mr...
...English officers used to sit Doran Company...
...His intoxication now suggests an unmistakably old...
...objected to the cow-grease with which a new issue of cartridges ERNEST BRENNECKE, JR...
...Polly, be provided for the coming race...
...the well when there is not a word said about Neill's fiendish 11-Iodifications of the theories are declared to be openly imperawork on the way to the well...
...New his last act was to accept the appointment as historian of the York: D. <4ppleton and Company...
...he had become too old ever to get over the conflict...
...The specific asset of this method lay has exacted quite went this distance...
...About the beginning of perfectly easy conscience...
...It is simply Nothing is so sickening in the shameful symposium Mr...
...of lore has been cramped into pages which nevertheless scarcely ever seem pedantic or oppressively unctuous, and which occaR. LEPPER has certainly the courage of his convictions sionally even flash with modern wit...
...monograph...
...He still wanted to earn his glory-title, render his service...
...We must no longer tended for the general reader...
...executioner to keep them a long time hanging, as they liked to see the criminals `dance a Pandies' hornpipe.' . . . A four- Starlight, by Harlow Shapley...
...And so Troubadours of Paradise, by Sister Al...
...And in a more BRIEFER MENTION playful way, he said of a contemporary critic: "The other book I have just read is Barrett Wendell on the seventeenth century Quevedo: The Choice Humorous and Satirical Works, -a cross between a German doctoral thesis and a Young edited by Charles Duff...
...And while the world republic is practically non-existent...
...3.50...
...Shapley aptly adds, we shall learn some An anecdote which Mr...
...But Quevedo can never be the last as if it were a novel...
...He sketches out a scheme that can have no other conclusion but age and enfeeblement, for the gradual salvation of humankind, and is killed in an defeat, disappointment, and death...
...Once more, "Plutarch American press have not been and are not likely to be very has lied...
...Some- tector-lover of his constant nymph, Clementina, and brings how this tends to rob Clissold's "world" of a great deal of its himself to a determination to marry her in the approved fashion...
...A suave, kindly refrain: "There's none to match a Paris jaw": this is hardly grace infuses the delicate lyrics which sing softly, delicately, comparable to the "bonne bec de Paris" as rendered by Swin- of the English moors and the Welsh highlands...
...the seventeenth century, Hans Lippershey, a Dutch spectacle The method of execution chosen by the British, namely maker, had shown that the interposition of a second lens blowing from the muzzle of guns, deserves a word all to it- between the eye and the image, made an enlarged view possible...
...subtle victories of the laboratory and the deepening wonders of Lately, after an interlude of preoccupation with problems science...
...it liberates the last of the slaves, rejects servility, calls drunken philosopher, assuring his audiences over and over again on every man for help and service...
...he delights in Walt Whit- the most intelligent men to live in Spain contemporary with man.,) In another place he notes whimsically : "I sent one the passing of the sixteenth century...
...Protoplasm, with which the simplest manifestations of life are associated, is not a compound, but a structure built up of compounds...
...I have been reading Christina Rossetti," he says...
...There is long overdue," he tells us, "a new In a prefatory note, the author owns that the essay is inorientation in the histories of India...
...Though true that the chemist may synthesize any of its component molecules, the synthetic production of the structure is still to be demonstrated...
...Its other point, a corollary, is Here is his "distant cousin," Wells's old conception of the rather well put, however: "Is it not quite as much `life' to usual weakening of the strong man's idealistic aims under the meet and deal with a new idea as to meet and deal with a new subtle reactionary attacks of "das ewig Weibliche...
...effectiveness in poisoning and inflaming native hearts in a Revelations in the heavens were now no longer the excepcountry where it still is no older than a "grandfather's tale," tion...
Vol. 4 • November 1926 • No. 26
