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So THE COMMONWEAL May i9, 1926 THE EUCHARISTIC RENAISSANCE By THOMAS M. SCHWERTNER, O.P. Editor of Rosary Magaaine The name of the esteemed Editor of the Rosary Magazine is sufficient ...
...Beam's, the unmarried pair of thieves completely triumphs in wit and human depth over the inmates of the boarding house...
...they preside...
...Then his practical editorial pen has put it all into readily understandble form for the consumption of the humblest of the million Chicago ilgrims...
...his long flight from grace, his final surrender, and the consequent relentless vengeance of the Queen...
...Everyone instinctively loves Alphonse Daudet just as everyone loves Dickens, unless he is afraid of being thought old-fashioned, but Leon Daudet, passionately as he admires his father, has inherited only one small corner of the paternal mantle...
...It is only when we come to the last chapter that we are reminded that this bellicose journalist is the champion of a lost cause...
...He still sees life in pigeonholes, and in hitting back at its frequently cruel smugness, he uses a broken weapon...
...In the read it scrupulously, though some of her friends assured her foreword is this pathetic admission : "We have no religion...
...One Macmillan Book a Week a gu pa h BOOKS Memoirs of Leon Daudet, edited atd translated by Arthur Kingsland Griggs...
...The gossip is tart my writer's palette, with all the care and all the ardor of and profuse...
...his trial in the Great Hall at Westminster, and his saintly death after many years of weary suffering in the Tower of London...
...Here she was repelled, as many ardent Catholics often are, by the evidences of com- and naivete have failed to impress even those of the household of the Faith, whose minds can never appreciate the meaning mercialism so much to be deplored in connection with our of: "Unless ye become as little children, ye cannot enter into shrines-but which the faithful find it easier to realize is the Kingdom of Heaven...
...It tells of and Dante was the greatest literary exponent of that period...
...The torrent of anecdote and comment sweeps the reader along without any effort on his part...
...Beam's-the type portrait of an old maid's activities in a summer hotel-and its faults are even more marked, in that it has less plot and indulges even more openly the author's youthful and sentimental desire to set unmarried couples in the seats of the mighty...
...The only excuse for this refinement of cruelty is that Royalism is not a joke...
...All this is pleasant reading for those who have an appetite for the hors-d'oeuvres of literary criticism...
...The king is dead, long live the king," May 19, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 51 was the characteristic comment of the Action Francaise on the recent death of the Duc d'Orleans...
...That is negative praise, but so much buffoonery of today is dull that the fact is worth mentioning...
...There they would be sure to find Daudet vociferating like a naughty o f preparations r r schoolboy, and Maurras explaining with sweet reasonableness, that democracy and Catholicism were mutually exclusive...
...On the other hand, it has many very poignant situations, a great deal of zealous abhorrence of hypocrisy, and many very lofty, if incomplete, passages of spiritual beauty...
...The policy of the paper is quite simple...
...His scheme was large and woven of many strands...
...There are good things scattered here and there, of which one of the best is Oscar Wilde's letter to Daudet proclaiming himself the simplest, most candid of mortals, "just like a tiny, tiny child...
...It does not spring from contemplating...
...In a rare outburst of sentiment Maurras ted to the bar...
...Ozanam desired to bring back May 19, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 53 the life and example of the middle-ages to the world-the ages of faith...
...Munro's mind, the heroine of the piece...
...He had tendency of the republic has been to eradicate local patriotism...
...will always be nullified...
...It also which fructified from his studies in the middle-ages...
...even though a saint, and even though called Therese, is not necessarily a writer of such genius as that of the great saint Madame Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, the author of this new of Avila...
...Daudet has none of his father's imagination and none of his father's kindliness...
...A Carmelite," she says, try in vain...
...Catholic truths, who frankly admits herself an unbeliever, who She bought a copy of L'Histoire d'une Ame, and began to addresses herself chiefly to unbelievers like herself...
...no inclination or liking for the profession of the law, and The prefects of the eighty-nine departments are now appointed only entered upon its study out of filial regard...
...The liberalism and materialism By CECIL KERR of his-day needed an antidote, and the best antidote was the This book gives the story of one whose life opened among scenes of earthly splendour, who was the godson of a king, and later on became revelation to the modern world, of what the middle-ages were, the favourite of Elizabeth and the first subject in the land...
...Beau-Strings T HIS is the last-minute name of the second comedy of C. K. Munro which opened recently...
...A curious proof of the vitality of Royalism is found in the title of an interestS2 THE COMMONWEAL May i9, 1926 ing book written by Marcel Sembat, a Socialist, shortly before a new France capable of conceiving and efficiently carrying out the war-Faites un Roi, sinon faites la Paix...
...He is worthy of this great 1000 Acres, Mountain, Meadow, Forest...
...5.oo...
...If the rainbow which I have placed about her days between the 'thirties and 'seventies worsted veil borrows from the prism of unbelief colors forbidden by theology, at least these colors have been chosen upon is undertaken...
...It is not difficult to criticize democracy, and Maurras has He wished to impress upon the world the social value of raked the whole theory of democracy fore and aft...
...sist in thinking that a good Royalist must dream of a coach drawn by six milk-white steeds clattering up to the Tuileries, such men as Maurras dream of a consistent foreign policy...
...Let us go to the poor," 468 West 143rd Street New York City was Ozanam's answer...
...they come via of the hour, by not only an intellectual defense and exposiEngland from the forests of Germany...
...A OF DICKENS reviewer has said that "she touches without knowing it, the heights of mysticism-not only with an absolute and avowed ignorance of such sublime things, but even with a prejudice By ARTHUR L. HAYWARD which excepts only the little Therese...
...and the road back to that national prosperity and contentment which once distinguished this mans before Christianity, and a second volume in 1849, Chris- country, before dehumanisation set in...
...in for good measure...
...Chic sport togs for Daudet, while he is technically a Catholic, is not exactly an both the ladies and the gentle...
...Has it any relation to reality or is it utterly any sentimental devotion to the house of Orleans or from fantastic...
...Decentralization and con- and literature of the middle-ages...
...Ozanam did not live to complete his great plan, which was F OUR LADY OF LOURDES architechtonic in its conception, and though not finished, afCAMP ASSOCIATION fords us ample ground for our wonder and admiration at the grasp and sweep of his genius...
...Arrangements have been made for binding Volume III in leather or in cloth, information regarding which will be supplied on application to The Commonweal...
...It seems strange that in 1914, when every Frenchman was needed, the services of all members of the Orleans and Buonaparte families were curtly declined...
...There are many Englishmen, for instance, who chuckle over the die-hard editorials in Blackwood's Magazine, but they would be aghast if they knew how many women's clubs in the Middle-West accept those editorials as a fair statement of British public opinion...
...gruity of the representation of a nun of the severe order of T HE devotion of the Little Flower which has spread Carmel, reclining upon a pale blue divan in a theatrical pose, dressed in a brown velvet habit with trimmings of gold lace, throughout the world with a rapidity which characterizes and a white mantle embroidered with precious stones...
...Personal touches and whimsical anecdotes, artistically wrought into the texture give richness of color and a vividwide-flung...
...His aspiraby the Minister of the Interior, and consequently owe their tion and bent were always toward literature...
...Continuity that the seed of his future studies in the Divine Comedy were of policy will be assured by the presence of the king, who sown, which finally blossomed in his work on Dante and will be guided by a permanent body of experts...
...In the United is question of the beatification or canonization of one States this does not matter, because there are only a few people of its servants it not very familiar...
...THE COMMONWEAL May i9, 1926 54 Sainte Therese de Lisieux, by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus...
...If he is not actually witty Daudet is always caustic or scurrilous, and he has a trick of writing at the top of his voice that dragoons our attention...
...ing entrance to a long nave of six centuries, leading up to NEW YORK 55 FIFTH AVENUE the sanctuary in which Christ, the Conqueror of barbarism, reigns in triumph, amid pontiffs, heroes, saints, and poets, who were adoring Him on His altar, His throne, as appears in the Disquisition on the Blessed Sacrament," as depicted in Raphael's immortal fresco in the Vatican...
...Catholics, however, are interested in foreign affairs, and the general welfare of the well aware that it is slow and meticulous...
...Madame Lucie seems to have grasped the meaning of Therese's `little way,' and A glance at some aspects of Early finds it to be a sort of Imitation, wherein she can read astonVictorian life in London, of which ishing philosophy...
...It is possible, of course, to change the France, in Ozanam's day, had recently witnessed the RevoConstitution of 1875, but the Royalist sees no hope in such lution of 183o against the absolutism of Charles X, and when changes...
...Between 1870 and of Frederic Ozanam, the famous editor of the Ere Nouvelle 1895 thirty-five ministries were formed and broken...
...The Italian allegiance to him rather than to the department over which...
...Curiously wardrobe and steamer trunksenough, Maurras himself is an agnostic who supports the Church on purely utilitarian grounds...
...Editor of Rosary Magaaine The name of the esteemed Editor of the Rosary Magazine is sufficient arantee that this book has not been carelessly written simply to take advantage of the Chicago Congress...
...So many strange things have happened in France any vague yearning for the splendor of the ancient regime...
...Instead of an Catholic Philosophy...
...So THE COMMONWEAL May i9, 1926 THE EUCHARISTIC RENAISSANCE By THOMAS M. SCHWERTNER, O.P...
...Just old son was found dead in the most suspicious circumstances...
...CoNDfi B. PALLEN...
...Criminals were given a chance to redeem themselves, but the republic had no use for any man whose ancestors had been kings or emperors...
...entirely outside the object of Catholic devotion...
...proved that any democratic government can plan and carry HE exact procedure followed by the Church when there through a far-sighted and unbroken policy...
...In Beau-Strings, the author's mouthpiece for human charity and understanding is one Storm, the unmarried companion of Dennis Welch, a concert singer...
...It has not been easy for the ardent Catholic to wax enthusiastic over at Home the dreary succession of anti-clerical ministries, but the effort has been gallantly made, and the success of such widely circulated papers as the Ouest Eclair and La Croix effectually disproves the old theory that a good Catholic could not be a or Abroad good Republican...
...Its general theme is amazingly like Mrs...
...Granting for merely abstract...
...These memoirs of Leon Daudet, a selection from his six volumes of souvenirs published between 1913 and 1922, are not dull...
...efficacy, to prove the truth of your faith...
...The Royalist hopes to rekindle the dying embers Nevertheless, he pursued his law studies, and was duly admitof local autonomy...
...THE COMMONWEAL said (May 12) :- Toward the end of her hook, Madame Lucie declares again, as she does in the beginning, that it is "as a poet and "With the help of yellow memorials novelist, and I repeat, as a countrywoman and a contemporary, of every sort-the novelists, the news- that I have wished to study the Saint of Lisieux...
...By protracted correspondence with Rome and various points and rties in France, Belgium and Holland, Fr...
...study Saint Theresa in her own book, in the hope of regainPerhaps the latest which has appeared is without doubt ing the fervor that had been almost destroyed by her unique...
...The whole wishes of his father, entered upon the study of law...
...Storm is plainly, in Mr...
...Over and beyond his distinction in the world of letters, Terms-Fifteen Dollars Weekly Ozanam's star shines with the unique lustre of his great O. L. L. CAMP FOR GIRLS achievement in the world of practical action as the illustrious founder and organizer of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, June 24th to September 2nd whose conferences encircle the globe, and is today, the most CAMP ACADIA FOR BOYS extensive and practical organization in the world for the sucJune 25th to September 3rd cor of the poor...
...These three volumes were for Ozanam but the introduction to the great historical period which extended from The History of Mother Seton's Daughters...
...in them...
...It was in answer to a challenge flung at Ozanam by the opponents of the Faith, whom he was ever For prospectus and further information address controverting, "What are you doing to show the vitality and The Right Rev...
...It was under the July monarchy that the institution and it has remained English in spite of its trans- Conferences of Saint Vincent de Paul were inaugurated...
...Her good points are everywhere contrasted with the destructive beguilements of Miss Gee...
...He regards it as an fitted dressing cases, week-end invaluable cement binding individuals into nations, without bags --- and everything to put which the whole structure of France must inevitably collapse...
...and the gleanings means at his disposal...
...The outsider can hardly help wondering why, if the idea of a monarchy is a joke, the late Duc d'Orleans was never allowed to set foot in the country...
...known to have come from his pen...
...It was then throughout the length and breadth of France...
...from Dickens are generously thrown No one could read the book and doubt the writer's sincerity...
...He has the same genius for external characterization...
...The monarchy must be set up," says Maurras, "just as all governments in the world have been set up-by force...
...us with a sense of the eternal fitness of things, was the inconParis: Fasquelle...
...The title-page and index for Volume III of The CommonWeal are now ready, and will be sent upon request...
...but everyone does what he can with the resurrected streets...
...H. McMAHON, Ph.D...
...He has met all the literary, political, and artistic celebrities in France of the last thirty years, and he displays them like so many wax puppets...
...If we were to judge by comments in other newspapers, the James McCreery & Co...
...and one of the finest writers of that French language of which Priest in residence at each camp...
...In the first place men than the defense of the Faith by abstract reasoning...
...It is the tribute of one who is not even a believer in pilgrimage...
...it will take the government out of the hands of Jews, Free- It was during the year 1833 that Ozanam made a trip masons, and Protestants, and give it back to the small land- to Italy which turned his mind definitely toward the history owner where it rightly belongs...
...The blessing of the poor is the Telephone, Edgecomb 5820 blessing of God...
...I and II $5.00 Vol...
...Pray give them to me.' But they of both faults and merits in a book...
...When one of my pious friends that these advisers were all wrong...
...ARNOLD WHITRIDGE...
...It may be said of him, as has been said of de Each camp located on its own lake...
...We learn that Zola lisped, that Dreyfus had a traitor's complexion, that Monet was bearded and extremely cultured, and that Victor Hugo had a sensual handwriting, whatever that may be...
...my hands remain empty of the riches they offer me...
...Daudet occupies two columns of the front page with scathing invective, and Maurras another two columns with a brilliant display of dialectics...
...In This book has been written for a time of grave anxiety to point out the February, 1847, appeared the first volume of his The Ger- cul-de-sac into which England has been blindly let...
...The present Chamber of Deputies contains eleven Royalists who frequently find themselves voting with the Communists against any policy of moderation...
...Is it to and founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, while be wondered at, says Maurras, that during that period of a second, called together by the Cardinal Archbishop is busied chaos the third republic became a mere pawn in the game studying, not only his literary remains, but everything that is between Germany and England...
...While we per- been nonentities...
...Maistre, "he was a great and virtuous man, a profound thinker, Boating, Bathing, Athletic Sports...
...Charlemagne to Saint Louis and Innocent III, covering the the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio middle-ages down to that supreme poem of Dante, which had By Sister MARY AGNES McCANN, M.A...
...One of the interesting things about the Royalist movement Such is the castle in Spain that the Royalists are forever is that it is essentially unromantic...
...recently, such as the reappearance of Caillaux and Malvy, that Daudet managed to fool himself into thinking that the Duc if only a likely candidate could be discovered a coup d'etat would d'Orleans was a great man, but the majority of Royalists are not be inconceivable...
...Since 1893 the great majority of French o ummering Catholics have followed the advice of Leo XIII and have rallied to the support of the existing government...
...except his being a nonentity, and it has been the misfortune What they are interested in is a hereditary system of govern- of the Royalist party ever since 1848 that all its candidates have ment which can be realized only by a king...
...The succor of the poor by Catholic charity a moment the justice of his arraignment how will a monarchy practically applied, would have even a more vivid effect upon undertake to cure the diseases of the state...
...large measures...
...Perhaps the government felt that the average Frenchman is not yet so wedded to the idea of a republic that he is proof under any conditions against the fascinations of a coup d'etat...
...The plan gradually matured in his mind, and The Life of the Venerable Philip Howard, he determined to write on Dante and scholastic philosophy as Earl of Arundel and Surrey the thesis for his doctorate...
...In the same way, the section of Americana in the American Mercury, delightful as it is, is hardly the reading we would press into the hands of the thoughtful immigrant...
...Whether we are interested or not in the French Pretender of the moment, the Action Francaise is excellent reading...
...that the Society 'DIRECTOR of Saint Vincent de Paul sprung...
...Probable price, $2.00 At your book store or from 60 Fifth Avenue THE MACMILLAN COMPANY New York, N. Y. Atlanta Boston Chicago Dallas San Francisco ness in symbolism and incident, and a lack of adequate motivation for many of the amazingly rapid reformations of character, and you find little cause for rejoicing in a play that must have offered limitless opportunities to the mind of a really great playwright...
...Literature is only his avocation, his real work is the restoration of the Orleans family, for which he and his friend, Charles Maurras, a much abler man, have been pleading daily in the columns of the Action Francaise for the last twenty years...
...Democracy and liberalism have nothing Latin Ozanam's idea was to counteract the anti-Christian influences about them and consequently nothing French...
...The reader will enjoy this narrative of splendid enterprise so skillfully so transported him with delight...
...Parliamentary government is an English that upheaval...
...We have Christian charity, for the evidences of the Faith were not only suggested the general line of his argument...
...He had, following the tinuity are the two watchwords of Royalist policy...
...He was one of the first to draw the endless round of ministers whirling in and out of office accord- modern world's attention to the great poet of the middleing to the whim of the latest bloc, England and Germany, the ages, whose work had practically been forgotten ever since two traditional enemies, will find themselves face to face with the period of the renaissance...
...TOzanam in His Correspondence, by the Right Reverend Say what you will in favor of democracies, it has yet to be Monsignor Baunard...
...her by some of her servants, she went herself to visit the And so she reads and ponders these pages whose simplicity Carmelite convent at Lisieux...
...I declare at once It is not because of ill will...
...France can forgive a man anything not particularly interested in the personality of the Pretender...
...It is devoted to the service of the king and the Church and French nationalism...
...No man can hit off more deftly peculiarities of speech, or manner, or appearance...
...Here throws some sidelights on the conditions of Catholics in those days of persecution, and tells of the terrors and hardships they endured so was a literary region which had long lain unknown in con- willingly in defence of their faith...
...A third volume followed in time by a "mad determination for a fuller material life, and a still madder confusion of economic ideas...
...Perhaps this is the quality which Shaw finds kindred to his own and admires...
...He is an irreconcilable Royalist who has finally convinced himself that no good thing can come out of the third republic...
...Daudet has convinced himself that the police are withholding certain information that will lead to the discovery of the murderer...
...that it was tiresome and insignificant...
...The fifth century would be the por- and Times...
...and yet the circulation of his paper is always growing and the Ligue d'Action Francaise extends to every corner of France...
...III 4.00 tico flanked by two Roman towers, Germans and Franks, givLONGMANS, GREEN & CO...
...He is convinced that government by the Chamber Ozanam first went to Paris, the French people wers sufferof Deputies will never work because it is alien to the spirit ing from the liberalism of the new ideas which had followed of the French people...
...New York: Dial Press...
...whether he was murdered by Communists...
...which evoked a reproof from Cardinal Dubois, have cost him the respect of many Catholics who might be inclined to McCreery will gladly save you the share his political views...
...ON DAUDET is one of those men whom France asks us not to take seriously...
...New York: Benziger Brothers...
...Every nation rejoices in a few exuberant eccentrics who provide excellent entertainment for the home but who should be restrained from giving public performances abroad...
...His divorce from his first wife, a men of the family, hats, brogues, granddaughter of Victor Hugo, and his recent novels, one of sweaters and more formal wear...
...She has written her book in the spirit which she herself calls the "passionate homage of an unbeliever," with the avowed intention of reaching that THE DAYS part of the world not interested in religious matters, and of increasing the number of subjects of "the Little Queen...
...his works are a distinguished ornament...
...Outside of the mystic poems of the dear little Sainte Therese de Lisieux, is a writer of romances, whose life one, the holy deliriums of the little daughter of Carmel are is so remote from the cloistered life that her astonishing apcalculated to astonish ignorant persons like myself, little accuspreciation of the "little way" must be set down as another tomed to the language which convents address to Jesus...
...They are strong colors, far removed from of conveyance appear in momentarily the Sulpician style...
...The Commonweal requests its subscribers to communicate E. P. DUTTON & CO., Publishers, New York any changes of address two weeks in advance, to ensure the If receipt of all issues...
...All everything belonging to the present century, has called forth this, as she frankly avers, scandalized her-but she resolved to all sorts of tributes from many sorts of persons...
...Attracted by debehold the personality of the touching religious-behold, all grees through the pictures of the little saint and stories told purity and all freshness, the very mark of her extreme youth...
...He conceived it as "a gigantic historical edifice ness of treatment that will captivate the imagination.-Catholic Standard like a great cathedral...
...Recently many of Daudet's critics trouble and annoyance of purchashave rallied to his side...
...trip roused him more ardently than ever to that purpose...
...under the title, History of Christian Civilization in the Fifth $1.40 Century...
...moment, two commissions are at work in the archdiocese of In France, it need hardly be said, the duty toward one's neigh- Paris, one of which is examining in detail the personal life bor becomes a more pressing problem...
...A successful writer herself, she would naturally be more appreciative than others cause I have no millions...
...tion of Catholic truth, but by the practice of charitable works...
...While the Pretender has naturally been grateful to the editors of the Action Francaise, the Church has not enjoyed being linked with those ,) truculent Royalists...
...Just over a year ago his fourteen-year- ing train and steamer tickets...
...Ozanam's investigations in Disillusionment the history of medievalism only whetted his appetite for fur- By EUSTACE DUDLEY, B.A., Oxon With a Preface by ARTHUR HUNGERFORD POLLEN ther research into the origins of Christian civilization...
...At the same time anti-clericals have always been able to fall back on the editorial policy of the Action means a multitude Francaise whenever they needed ammunition...
...It is a fascinating account and has an added value because of the tempt and neglect of the middle-ages, following upon the light it throws on Howard's contemporaries and on the Government of Reformation movement which had deliberately turned its back the day...
...formations...
...2.,50...
...of his attempted flight with its dramatic The Franciscan Poets was another of Ozanam's works sequel...
...In the last election Daudet himself lost his seat...
...Vols...
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...A Camp for Catholic Boys Ozanam ranks easily as one of the foremost champions of and the lay apostolate in the nineteenth century with such names A Camp for Catholic Girls as de Maistre, who bridged the eighteenth and the nineteenth (ct4ge Limits Eight to Eighteen) centuries, Chateaubriand, Veuillot, Donoso Cortes, and Hello, who make up a galaxy of the first magnitude in the defense Livingston Manor, Sullivan Co., New York and exposition of Catholic truth...
...At the present country is comparatively independent of conditions in Europe...
...It was Therese Martin's asks me why I do not believe, it is as if the question were `Why are you not a millionaire?' To which I reply: 'Be- book which induced me to write this one...
...At Mrs...
...But proof that Saint Theresa is fulfilling her promise of spendthrough this vocabulary, to us full of very tiresome repetitions, ing her heaven in doing good upon earth...
...Small wonder that such a tribute from such a source has "aroused profound emotion throughout Paris...
...old fashions and means which I am capable...
...ornament to the Faith...
...I have papers, old theatre programs-a really not for one moment attempted to diminish the brilliancy of delightful excursion into the faded her aureole...
...Action Francaise and the whole' Royalist movement is a glori- Telephone Wiscdnsm 7000 ous joke-the kind of joke that the revue artist can rely upon NEW YORK 34th STREET when all else fails...
...company...
...life charity and zeal for God and God's poor literally "deThat is probably true, and as long as the Chamber remains voured," will attach to the present volume of his intimate supreme in France without the Senate or the president being correspondence, published for the express purpose of showing able to act as a balance, the wishes of the better class of citizens us Ozanam in his interior and spiritual life...
...Another Madame Delarue-Mardrus reads the autobiography with thing which displeased her, which also is difficult for any of avidity, and with every page, apparently, she becomes more and more fascinated with its author...
...Naturally the Church is not responsible for their opinions, 4*)but she cannot ignore the fact that at every religious ceremony the Action Francaise is strongly represented, and that it was the Camelots du Roi, an organization built up by HERE'S luggage for the Daudet and Maurras, who revived the Joan of Arc festival journey at McCreery's-sturdy in Paris, and made it a great Catholic occasion...
...These are the bright spots in a long and tiresome and out-ofjoint evening...
...Pollen speaks in his preface of our industrial structure and with it our whole polity being threatened tianity among the Franks...
...write or telephone McCreery's There is some question whether he committed suicide or Travel Bureau...
...confesses his longing "to deliver from their departmental cages During the Italian trip in 1833, while he was in Florence, the souls of the provinces whose names are still cherished Ozanam came into close touch with Dante...
...In view of this last, a Not long ago Briand complained that the Chamber of special interest, for all lovers of the gentle soul whose short Deputies was congenitally incapable of understanding finance...
...From now on this play will be given the first half of each week, and the resplendent Cyrano the latter half...
...This is perhaps sufficient comment on the immature and as yet confused state of Munro's mind and judgment...
...Just as a matter of theatrical record, and without in any way recommending the play, it must be said that Estelle Winwood as the neurotic Miss Gee has done an extremely clever bit of portraiture and that Miss Joan Maclean has made Storm quite as sympathetic and engaging as the author intends...
...Schwertner has gathered is data like a real historian...
...With two illustrations $3.75 upon the ages of faith, and so cut off the modern world from the knowledge of the most fruitful period of the develop- National Resurrection: A Plea for ment of European civilization...
...There is reason for his hatred of Victor Hugo, of Zola, of all politicians and all Jews, indeed for everything that has happened since 1789...
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