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78 THE COMMONWEAL May 26, 1926 of even fairly good actors nowadays. They forget that...
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...it is not a possession, but a condition...
...claiming that his book is no more than a "synthetical essay" and not an analytical history...
...Perhaps in the days of pleasure to end this rambling discussion of books with the Constantine, certainly by the time of Charlemagne, the Princefollowing excerpt from a courteous letter signed by Asa Don Pope began to rule Rome and the surrounding country...
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...constantly in mind, is proved by the section of "Helps" which This orientation, thoroughly modern and-one suspects-rela- really do what they profess to...
...currents stirring, we have seen this season and last some amaz- Lectures have become a favorite method of introduction to ing progress in the work of Helen Hayes, Blanche Yurka, subjects of interest...
...The relation is established with particular nicety republic...
...Gilbert runs beneath the railway, past the tomb of a Roman emperor, turns to Saint Thomas's Commentary on Ethics, and corre- the stronghold of the Popes, the Castel Sant' Angelo, to flow lates this, step by step, with the poems and prose of the Floren- beneath a bridge built by order of a consul of the Roman tine seer...
...Among the best though one detects, here and there in the book, a strident, of these ever to have been written by an American is The dissatisfied note, Mr...
...Narratives from ancient and modern literatures true romance...
...is the personification of "force...
...the Purgatorio with justice in human the answer in the presence of Peter...
...The style is splendidly fascinating, sometimes enthusiastically In 1871, with the inroad of General Cadona's troops into -dramatic...
...Though the analysis of Dante's symbolism Probable price, $2.00 and ideas is a bit tenuous, this book will prove continuously At your book store or ftem helpful to readers who, though familiar with the poet's text, 60 Fib Avenue THE MACMILLAN COMPANY New York, N. Y. need to familiarize themselves with his person and his surround- Atlanta Boston Chicago Dallas Ban Francisco ings...
...New York Times Book Review...
...Sedgwick's success is his sincerity...
...Perhaps the best easily the most distinguished, with Alice Brady, Ann Herding, of the French translations is that of M. Andre Perate (Paris: and one or two others approaching her very closely...
...The author has reThe Pope, by Jean Carrere...
...buried and half-lost in the sands of the Sahara-Gigthis, The conclusion of a book, which is decidedly Catholic Djirba, and Mahdia on the coast, where the divers have in its sentiment and international in its conception of his- brought up priceless sculptures, of columns, vases, and architorical justice, is that the Roman question can only be solved tectural details from the finest periods of Greek art, treasureby the admission of the panel sovereignty, be this over no trove from a Roman galley halted in its work of spoliation larger an area than the Vatican Gardens...
...This view, though inter- who claim that the spirit of Rome and the Roman empire esting and reasonable, seems to involve an unnecessary earthifi- has survived, if not in spite of, then, at least, unaided by and cation of the Divine Comedy...
...Pagan temples and Roman walls ham, North Carolina: Duke University Press...
...It is tramcar, runs the legend S. P. Q. R.-Senatus Populusque impossible not to relish Mr...
...and sunken by a storm before it reached its home ports of MARTYN HEMPHILL...
...0 Rome ! thou art a world," wrote Goethe...
...It might be added, by way of a parting benedicof his tomb, with the two representative figures of the negro tion, that the work of translation from foreign languages has wish broken chains and the Bedouin holding symbolical sheaves usually been done with considerable skill...
...the ideal homeland of all The Mystic Vision in the Grail Legend and in the Divine who wish to see man's work reaching toward eternity...
...His treatment is firm and informative, being occasion of the Holy Year beginning on Christmas Eve, 1924, especially fine in the interpretation of Ariadne's Crown...
...They forget that a BOOK S cheaply bought laugh brings a cheap reputation in the end to the actor himself...
...advantage of the Chicago Congress...
...A Pope in Rome at to contestants for this prize, although it might be necessary to a time of mediaeval barbarity, with an emperor or king in the require the formality of introduction for those persons unknown same town, . . . would have made Peter the servant of to us who wish to use the most precious of our volumes...
...their anthology, the fact remains that the massive volume is The French clergy figure, as is entirely proper, promi- crammed with attractive narratives, only a comparative few of nently on the scene, as we are in the last home of the great which-like Theodore Dreiser's The Lost Phoebe-are imCardinal Lavigerie, whose White Fathers are the guardians possibly dull...
...Yet, his argument is inclined to be abstract and it May 26, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 81 would take many more chapters, if not books, to follow out his contention in its application to the historical instances...
...By protracted correspondence with Rome and various points and Dante, the Man and the Poet, by Mary Bradford Whiting parties ~a France, Belgium and Holland, Fr...
...Everyone is ready to admit ever the individualisms of Mr...
...But how- first Pope Peter settled there...
...SCHOOL OF IRISH STUDIES Another point of view is elaborated in Dante and His In6 East Twelfth Street, New York City fluence, by Thomas Nelson Page (New York : Charles Announcing Scribner's Sons...
...x892-though it not infrequently ventures conclusions that "The greatness of Dante's work is not in its details," says the seem dubious...
...Mencken's tinguished Syrian archaeologist, the Abbe Chabot, are grate- mighty voice...
...But, first, there must be a settlement of the Roman question ; Count de Prorok gives a graphic account of the unearthing and, secondly, Mussolini must cease to be the champion of of the sanctuary of Tanit, the cruel goddess of the Carthaforce...
...A succinctly scholarly introduction which has deservedly won Fletcher deals here with certain aspects of the imagery used a great many readers is Dante, by Jefferson Butler Fletcher by the mystical writers to represent spiritual realities...
...but the he can narrate the factual circumstances graphically, he is con- work is so sagely and reverently done that the beginning cerned chiefly with outlining the noble ethical import of the student may reap more profit from it than he could from vastly more pretentious volumes...
...If it were not for this slight Knopf...
...New York : Columbia University Press...
...The conclusion is, of course, By THOMAS M. SCHWERTNER, O.P...
...asks Monsieur Carrere...
...the enemy of Caesar...
...It might be more correct to apart from the presence of the Vicar of Christ in the city...
...Rome through the Porta Pia breach, the temporal power of the Papacy came to an end and the Roman question was born...
...BOOKS FOR THE DANTE PRIZE WORKER Miss Foster's acting is an excellent study in the deft avoid- "~ F I wish to write an essay about Dante," inquired a recent ance of farce-all the more difficult to maintain because of correspondent in whimsical perplexity, "which hundred the mistakes of the others...
...There is a certain difficulty in finding revised and are supplied with serviceable introductions...
...T. C...
...Both have been acting is dying out...
...Some might require a modernistic recipe for Editor of Rosary Magazine their assimilation of the Divine Comedy, but it seems hardly The name of the esteemed Editor of the Rosary Magazine is sufficient guarantee that this book has not been carelessly written simply to take fitting that a scholar should stoop to supply it...
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...The approach is fresh and modern, to join this group...
...The purpose being "to the use of sensuous symbols was thus primarily to bring the interpret Dante as far as possible from his own writings," supersensible home to creatures of sense," he writes, "yet in the the growth of the poet is keenly analyzed through a progressive handling of subtle and ingenious metaphysicians and mystics, comparison of the lesser poems and the Divine Comedy...
...alized an important truth...
...of effort and achievement that will warm the hearts of the THOMAS WALSH...
...Mary Grandgent (Boston: Marshall Jones...
...a falling-off...
...The Catholic World...
...It is the greatness of a comprehensive and vast con- summaries...
...If the chapter concerned with find room for their gloomy observations...
...the tradition of a thousand years and more has placed the seat of the Papacy on the tomb of its founder and the prestige of the Sovereign Pontiff as head of the universal Church is incompatible with his subjection to any racial human sovereign...
...It is this: the Inferno deals with justice in "Why is Rome eternal...
...Count de Prorok's first discovery of and Company...
...Butler had the beginner Divine Comedy...
...The Power of Dante, by Charles Hall Pauline Lord, Helen Gahagan, and Lynn Fontanne...
...They invented contracts and bills of exchange...
...New York: Robert M. McBride the northern Sahara...
...If you are not a Catholic, you have a right to dispute Each camp located on its own lake...
...of the Holy Father leaves the question in abeyance, save in 'DIRECTOR moments of crisis and excitement...
...say that the great poet had in mind the saying of Christ about The truth is, that Rome is what she is today because the the quest of the kingdom of God and- His justice...
...Clark of a life that had started on the operatic stage, in devotion to and Mr...
...2.00) is the collection Ellis has recently brought her fine talent to a high pitch, and of Lowell Institute lectures for 1917...
...Perhaps the Divine Comedy was written, and summarizes the poem itself...
...He is there wherever force tries to subjugate the spirit and dominate the world, be it east or History o f Christian west of the Rhine, north or south of the Alps...
...the temptation...
...The temporal power is gone in its old form forever and the Church is the richer for its OUR LADY OF LOURDES loss, but the principle still remains...
...Among the German versions of them, by a turn of the wheel, or by the discipline of one we may signal out the unusually scholarly achievement of very difficult part, might pass far beyond the dangerous ground August Vezin (Munich: Kosel and Pustet...
...Each civilization has of Dante's Conception of Justice, by Allan H. Gilbert (Dur- passed and left its mark...
...Henry Holt...
...Cary's English version, the best known of the break, her performance would be a little masterpiece in its verse translations, has been issued in various forms, preferable kind...
...First of all, she approaches the books shall I read first...
...bankers...
...it is the truly infinite city...
...he must not be Caesar or he becomes the inveterate ginians...
...the other W 1' RITING about Rome is a temptation hard to resist...
...The following sumThen, she takes great care to let her comedy and pathos flow maries, arrived at with the friendly cooperation of various pubinto one another without the abrupt breaks and mannerisms lishers, may be of some value: which so often crash through illusion...
...It is (aAge Limits Eight to Eighteen) the very condition of spiritual power, and this spiritual power, in tb' eyes of the Pope and in the eyes of the whole Church, Livingston Manor, Sullivan Co., New York is the only essential and indestructible thing that exists on 1000 Acres, Mountain, Meadow, Forest...
...From what sources did he derive it...
...And if the Christianity in Carthage came at the end of the second reason was a desire to represent the moderns, why was not a century, followed by a persecution more merciless than the more representative story chosen from the wealth of contemhorrors of Italy itself...
...He covers himself, however, by illuminating book...
...The present solution of voluntary imprisonment The Right Rev...
...He was 436 West Twenty-Seventh Street, New York City most interested in the Divine Comedy as an educative force...
...It it too often ceased to be illustrative and simplifying, and became has seemed to Dr...
...He takes us with him to the dead cities of Africa, enemy of Peter...
...Clark and Mr...
...excavators in North Africa: the visits of interested scholars, But though one might go on indefinitely finding fault with and interesting patrons whose donations enable the workers what Mr...
...it was apostolic...
...To read this brief but exuberant book on the The last half of the essay deals with the Roman question in Papacy has been a pleasure...
...d'Aurevilly, Flaubert, and Paul Bourget...
...Miss Whiting's book is valuable also for the series 8o THE COMMONWEAL May 26, ig26 symbolic logic...
...A perhaps a greater choice for future greatness than in many more recent translation of the Divine Comedy, completed by long years...
...Dickinson, librarian of the University of Pennsylvania: "We The expansion of the Church and the state of civilization shall be glad to cooperate in extending the use of our collection made the temporal power a necessity...
...The volume offers a good American view of its subject...
...Lieber in making the large anthology now offered to Carthaginian history and archaeology, has all the elements of the public...
...Systematic investigation," he says keenly, "from the standpoint of folklore as well as of conscious mysticism, of One Macmillan Book a Week wr mediaeval number symbolism is still a desiratum...
...2.50) until the major burden of the play has passed and the ending or The Complete Works of Dante (New York : Alfred A. is comfortably within sight...
...and concise schemata for the interpretation of the promise of its beginning...
...There are, to begin with, the actresses of dis- .Henry Johnson (New Haven: Yale University Press...
...And over all, on ancient bridge as on the modern in so far as the doctrine of natural law is concerned...
...Yet, there were occasions on which the favorable comment abroad, is now presented to descendant of Peter allied himself with worldly powers, "Most English readers in an excellent translation...
...Peter is, in the nature of things, New York...
...mission...
...is a favorite with many, chiefly because its notes resume so But among the younger women of the present stage, there is well the findings of earlier American Dante scholarship...
...ject or his sincere sympathy with the authors he reads...
...Naturally the of mere popularity...
...Still better, I think, is the Even the general reader of Dante will find it useful to read chapter of commentary on the Purgatorio, written with fine one or the other of the special studies which have been devoted poetic nobility and a sense of practical spiritual realities...
...Yet there can be no gain- 468 Went 143rd Street New York City saying the unsatisfactory nature of the present condition, as Telephone, Edgecomb 5820 well from the Quirinal as from the Vatican point of view...
...The modern Caesar, in the person of Benito Mussolini, is 82 THE COMMONWEAL May 26, 1926 said to be desirous of becoming the political champion of the of produce...
...It includes a careful exposition but none says quite so well the words of illuminating comment of the historical and cultural background against which the which the new pilgrim to Dante longs to hear...
...H. McMAHON, Ph.D...
...That Mr...
...and May 26, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 79 thirdly, the medium and the manner in which he presented of graceful and appropriate illustrations which beautify it...
...by Henry Dwight Sedgwick (New Haven : Yale University The translator of Sc artazzini is the author of a compact Press...
...chief reason for Mr...
...Here are summarized now I would venture to add that, given the right series of in attractive form the conclusions of a lifetime's study of the plays, Claiborne Foster will almost surely establish her right elements of Dante's power...
...It is with the struggle of Peter and Caesar that the first part of this essay is taken up...
...Carthage itable the constant questions, Why this...
...Other Essays (New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Gilbert's familiarity with the sub- Romanus...
...The Yellow Tiber Dante...
...The Church was Catholic...
...Then life has for him all Christianity against those illustrious though mistaken writers the possibilities which Dante, in his allegory, represents by the -among their number are Gibbon, Taine, and Nietzsche-justly ordered kingdom of heaven...
...What ruler had the right to rule Rome...
...The Pope was bibliography may be obtained from the librarians in charge the Vicar of Christ...
...The stories of the excavations at Utica, the parent city, are given in detail: all of which and more make of E NTHUSIASM is always infectious and the devotion of Count de Prorok's Digging for Lost African Gods a fascinatthe Count de Prorok to the antiquities and archaeological ing reading of adventure and history, and a valuable record developments of North Africa bears fruit in a splendid volume of epoch-making explorations and excavations...
...peoples...
...Much of that time he spent in Rome as The main truth of Jean Carrere's contention is incontestcorrespondent of the Paris Temps...
...His book may be considered a suitable prelude to the scholarly and widely appreciated Dante tively personal, makes possible the masterly chapter on Dante's Alighieri: His Life and Works, by Paget Toynbee (London intellectual preparation, in which there is a strong and refreshMethuen) . ing undercurrent of mysticism...
...Sedgwick...
...He finds the life of the wicked...
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...Plays are what we morality is especially terse and sympathetic, the later chapters need-not actresses...
...We are led in the Count's expeditions through the Golden Digging for Lost dfrican Gods, by Count Byron Khun de Cities, Sbeitla, Timgad, Khamissa Bulla Regia, Chemton, and Prorok...
...Gilbert's work may impress the "metropolitan" position of Rome among the cities of the the reader, it is very good work, logically accomplished and world, but the majority are unaware of the spiritual foundaadequately substantiated...
...It was not until the able...
...Here are the more important portraits of Dante, and photoA memorable essay by Dean Church, reprinted in Dante and graphic likenesses of the scenes now identified with his memory...
...Then his practical editorial pen has put it all into readily uaderstaad' indicates-a pleasantly written compendium of the facts about able form for the consumption of the humblest of the million Chicago pilgrims...
...It may cheerfully be replied thereto part of the misunderstood younger sister with the utmost sim- that though the dimensions of Dante bibliography are enormous, plicity...
...The amphitheatre of Carthage was porary German narratives...
...It is the work tazzini, is available in a fine English translation by A. J. Butler of an exceedingly able Victorian who weighs the criticisms of (New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Naturally is now beyond doubt that they were the first real explorers, there is no critic who could declare himself fully satisfied with the first to organize overseas trade, and they were the first the result...
...Carthage, the great centre of a Phoenician civilization, rivaling that of Rome to its own destruction, is the beginning Great Short Stories of the World, collected by Barrett H. and end of these excavations, discoveries, and explorations of Clark and Maxim Lieber...
...0.85) and the Everyman's library those confirmed pessimists who announce that the art of fine edition (New York: E. P. Dutton...
...but what impresses us most, perhaps, is his curiosity...
...She never strives for an effect, but lets it come a handful of easily accessible books will supply an adequate naturally, with much of that spontaneous humor and grace knowledge of what scholarship agrees is essential information which distinguish Helen Hayes from her clever imitators...
...spiritual power and temporal power, and one through the other Boating, Bathing, Athletic Sports...
...New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons...
...There are one or two Adequate editions and translations of Dante are, of course, places in the last act when she succumbs for a few moments indispensable...
...Give us a few dramatists of real power, about workmanship and dictioli are helpful toward the undergrace, and beauty of thought, and we shall quickly discover standing of details...
...the Pincio has drawn the French author toward it...
...The absence of a definite criterion of selection makes inevProbably they had a stock market or clearing house...
...especial attention is devoted to the interpretation of Beatrice...
...right to refuse to recognize a truth which is proved and confirmed by the whole history of Europe for the last 2,000 years...
...Longamong the younger men that particular gift of versatility which fellow's translation, issued by the Houghton Mifflin Company, ends by becoming either great or just tiresomely superficial...
...Not claiming to add anything new FOUR PERFORMANCES of the following Plays to Dante scholarship, Mr...
...it begory...
...2.50) is pre- are as much in evidence as renaissance palaces and gorgeous dominatingly ethica...
...Italy...
...2.00) which collects a series of BarbourPage Foundation lectures...
...3.50...
...among which are the Bohn's library edition (New York: HarPerhaps this is as good a time as any to break a lance with court, Brace and Company...
...Comedy, by L. A. Fisher, is an example of many monographs With the coming of Peter, Rome became the centre of Chriswritten to initiate the student into the mazes of mystical alle- tianity...
...2.40...
...But without becoming tiresomely erudite, the little book deals more satisfactorily than anything else of its kind in English with THE EUCHARISTIC RENAISSANCE the data of Dante's symbolism...
...As an essay it is brilliant and masterly...
...Helpful information concerning these aspects of Dante came Roman...
...and secondly, their application in the forms of RESERVED SEATS ............................$1.25 beauty and majesty in which he clothed his great ideas...
...are grouped with little or no regard for the generally accepted Of the old Carthaginians, feared and hated by the outer theoretical requirements for the short-story form...
...Dante," he says, "is the best medicine for minds diseased with scepticism, as to the value of righteousness...
...the one stands for an "idea...
...Mary is far from adequate...
...when it is secured by death, with deep admiration-of a All the leading aspects of the Divine Comedy are discussed, and perfect life...
...Gradua lecture-deals inspiringly with the Comedy of Dante, setting ally the "city of Peter" across the Tiber from the heights of forth the relations between the man and his poem...
...Terms-Fifteen Dollars Weekly The condition of spiritual power is the absolute independence O. L. L. CAMP FOR GIRLS of the Pope, and the condition of this independence is the sovereign possession of a terrestial domain, allowing the Pope June 24th to September 2nd complete freedom from the jurisdiction and supervision of any CAMP ACADIA FOR BOYS other power on earth...
...This is the most imsuffering...
...Caesar," according to Carrere, "is not necessarily an emperor A Complete Panoramic or necessarily Germanic...
...Nevertheless, there is much real The book is called The Pope, though- it is really about beauty here also, and the last section of the book apparently Rome and the "Roman question" throughout the ages...
...2.00) A Companion to Dante, by the great Swiss scholar, Scarmight profitably be ' appended to the lectures...
...them...
...Even to a consideration of more recondite problems...
...June 25th to September 3rd The "Law of Guarantees," which has been in force and unrecognized by the Popes since x871, does not assure this For prospectus and further information address independence...
...P. W. Wilsona manner that is at once sympathetic and historically accurate...
...On a neighboring hill stand the shrine and tomb Holy See and her representative in the Council of the Nations...
...The idea here is to show that the baroque basilicas...
...In the case of France, nothing more bizarre can Gargilius, now under excavation in Carthage, that Saint be imagined by the present reviewer than the preference for Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, made his famous onslaught Zola's The Fairy Amoureuse, to the exclusion of Barbey on the schismatical Donatists at the Council of A. D. 311...
...Price, $3.50 Anybody attempting to solve the Roman question finds him- From Your Bookseller or the Publishers self on the horns of a most perfect dilemma: in the light of reason and by all the laws of nationality and the principles HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY of self-determination, the city of Rome should be the capital One Park Avenue, New York of the kingdom of United Italy...
...of the Crusader Saint Louis of France...
...The feudal castles of the middle-ages are concept of justice was a matter of primary importance to skirted by modern electric street-cars...
...The general narrative of the book is pleas- as a representative picking from the rich American short-story antly varied with accounts of the daily experiences of the literature would merely be badly fooled...
...We cannot fail," says Dr...
...earth...
...That leaves Rome and o f the Papacy the author a wide choice of opponents for Peter...
...Caesar, which would have been the very negation of Peter's GEORGE N. SHUSTER...
...Any reader who should choose these narratives fully recognized...
...translated by Arthur Chambers...
...like the greatness-which we watch poems...
...Why not that...
...But What the German poet wrote was true and is true forever, his schematization of the Divine Comedy seems to me of but not in the way that he understood it...
...It tion of yarns by modern and contemporary authors...
...The author has clearly and syshuman talents...
...In this group Catherine Cornell is reviewer "the most satisfactory rendering...
...Scartazzini was deeply interested in the lesser works in its course with anxious suspense, and look back upon it of Dante, and his treatment of them is particularly valuable...
...This work Dante which were rooted in the English nineteenth-century is remarkable for the thoroughness with which it covers the mind, and disposes of them generously and dispassionately...
...It is not an A Camp for Catholic Girls end, but a means...
...tion of its position...
...He makes out a good case with his examples, and even manages to overcome the apparent difficulty of Napoleon III, admitted friend of the Holy See...
...The American secThe lifelong researches of Pere Delattre, and of the dis- tion seems to have been created within range of Mr...
...Fletcher that understanding Dante is -in almost a mathematical sense-an intricate and esoteric equivalent to familiarizing oneself with Dante's mystical view of life...
...If (New York: Henry Holt...
...2.50) tinctly popular appeal-those who have mastered the artifice is notably fine and has been termed by at least one competent of acting if not its art...
...America...
...Rome While Dr...
...readers of his Digging for Lost African Gods...
...field of Dante literature up until the time when it was written Present-day readers will find it a useful summary of the subject...
...i.oo...
...Among Friday, May 28th Cathleen ni Hoxlihax (Yenta) The Yellow Bittern (Corkary) the benefits which Dante conferred on Italy and, indeed, on Sunday, May 30th...
...Page wished simply "to present in by the School Players at succinct form a brief sketch of the life of the poet of poets and THE CELLAR THEATRE (HUDSON GUILD) of the conditions amid which that life was cast...
...The Church was of no nation...
...There is world, who distrusted their fides Punica, their dubious private something from the Bible, from Petronius, from the contracts and public "scraps of paper," Count de Prorok says: Panchatantra, prefixed to a more or less heterogeneous collec"These people invented business, as...
...reliable biographical material, discussing all the ception, sustaining without failure the trial of its long and questions of ancestry, personal fortunes, and relations with hazardous execution, and fulfilling at its close the hope and others...
...5.00) seems to us easily the best...
...In a group where one feels rather deeper list might be extended...
...The that he followed the suggestion of his master, the eminent chapter entitled Three Blessed Ladies does not wholly satisfy...
...It was in the Baths of anthology...
...The Italian version is obtainable in Dante: to the false mood of Miss Moore and Miss Stills, but not ,Tutte le Opere (New York: Oxford University Press...
...In such a list, where do the pessimists the tone suitably cultural...
...Other volumes are manual, Dante: His Times and His Work (New York: The heavier with research and speculation about difficult problems, Macmillan Company...
...Catholic Majesties" and "Defenders of the Faith," and it "Intellectual profit, apologetic interest, mental enwould have strengthened Jean Carrere's case to have dealt joyment, all advise the reading of this worthy and with them at some length...
...78 THE COMMONWEAL May 26, 1926 of even fairly good actors nowadays...
...French Catholic novelist and psychologist, Paul Bourget, and and Catholics particularly will feel that the interpretation of published the present "synthetical essay on the two Romes...
...For twenty years Jean Carrere held out against the spirit...
...3.00) is exactly what the title his data like a real historian...
...Lieber have decreed ought to go into to proceed...
...Dougga...
...Among the many little books which aim to give an intro- This is an admirable book to approach after a careful reading duction to the life and work of the Florentine master, Dante, of some such briefer treatise as that by Mr...
...about Dante's career and intentions...
...and the Paradiso with the justice of variation in portant aspect of the essay...
...It is a So there came the temporal power...
...Fletcher's subject-matter is symbolism, the import is unique in her varied attractions...
...The Twisting of the Rope (Hyde) the most valuable part of a beautifully written book...
...Jules Renault lying ill in a deserted dug-out, originally an old INDUSTRY and a desire to satisfy the modern craving for Roman cistern, where he was spending the last fifteen years enlightenment about the short story have guided Mr...
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...In one of the most admirably succinct passages in the whole book the author ex- CAMP ASSOCIATION pounds its theoretical significance: "The temporal power of the Pope, as I have already shown, A Camp for Catholic Boys several times in this work, does not rest on conquest or chance and like all the others, having no aim beyond itself...
...Any one Librairie de l'Art Catholique...
...as you please, but, if you are a Catholic, you have not the Priest in residence at each camp...
...Sedgwick's attractive little volume is Symbolism of the Divine Comedy, by Jefferson Butler Fletcher almost a distillation of Dante...
...Grandgent, that almost no era in the American theatre has greater poten- "to note the distinctness of Dante's concepts, his clear-cut tial acting genius than our own...
...Though There is no attempt to be original or very personal...
...Then-on with the play l reasoning, his strict logic...
...Caesar, as he rises to the After a year's residence, the present reviewer found apex of his power, is drawn, as if by some magnet, toward it difficult to abstain from chronicling the Holy Year 1925• Rome, where stands Peter ready to oppose human arrogance, Luckily he abstained...
...Wda YMay 26th Cathlete Ni Hoxtihax (Yaa) Riders to the Sea (Synge) and the chapter dealing with Dante and his teaching is, perhaps, Saturday, May 29th...
...For though Rome is old enough and and sometimes destined to triumph as at Canossa, sometimes complex enough to admit of each visitor finding some new to suffer as at the hands of Charles V's German mercenaries, point of aesthetic or spiritual appreciation in it, it takes a but always sure to rise again triumphant, even though withGoethe to do it lyrical justice after such a peremptory ac- out domain, in a strength that is not of the flesh, but of quaintance...
...doubtful value...
...Here the student will find adequate historical essay...
...the scene of the martyrdoms of noble women like Saint Per- It seems also, turning momentarily to the English writers, petua and Saint Felicitas...
...True, "it was the inevitable destiny THE POPE of all the Caesars, hereditary or children of fortune, that prompted their desire to seize for their material aggrandize- By JEAN CARRERE ment the supreme and imponderable strength represented by This brilliant work,, which has aroused so much the power of Peter...
...The Bishop Saint Cyprian was be- that the complete exclusion of Kipling can be justified only on headed, and at Cirta, Lambessa, and Utica hundreds of Chris- the ground of personal feeling-a dangerous standard for any tians perished in the fiery furnaces...
...the great poet...
...it is understood today...
...This is analyzed carefully and revealingly, in the true scholar's best manner...
...In the issued leather money of representative value, which was cur- selections from German literature, for instance, Droste-Hiilrency through her dependencies, anticipating modem economists shoff's famous classic, Die Judenbuche, is omitted, while a defiin the matter of paper money...
...The Shadow of the Glee (Synge) the world in his masterpiece was first, his dedication of his The Curtain riseseach evening at 8:30 sharp great powers to the teaching of the moral purpose of man's ADMISSION 5O existence...
...Schwertner has gathered (New York: D. Appleton...
...of the larger Dante collections in the United States...
...It is our city, the city of all western We might go on to enumerate other studies in number...
...Let every man employ well the talents he tematically made out the case for Rome as the capital of possesses," reads the conclusion...
...nitely second-rate story by Sudermann finds a place...
Vol. 4 • May 1926 • No. 3
