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162 THE COMMONWEAL June i6, 1926 not give a bad performance. He had his very fine...
...He won the favor of that plunging CHARLES YON CHANDLER...
...New the ease and naturalness which Mr...
...and deeply regrets the publication of the statements regarding Bitter disillusionment followed-women lost all appeal...
...The seems hard put to glorify the meanness and poverty of epochs reasons for a college education, the choice of college, for which he probably has scant sympathy...
...Short has brought to the task to the doctrine of self-determination carried to its ultimate an aesthetic sensibility, which in its alliance with profound consequences with cumulative destructive force...
...But one his best to render the volume attractive...
...Inman studied some of the writbits of photography and mass direction...
...The reviewer was once asked to deliver an address before the Beside the excellent Lady Percy of Peggy Wood, Blanche Y. M. C. A. in Buenos Aires, and spoke at some length on Ring added a goodly share of enjoyment by a fulsome and the history of that city, where the earliest Associated Charities skilful portrait of Mistress Quickly ably assisted in the comedy in the new world were founded...
...Its design is comprehensive and in the forepart the book the phenomenon it expresses from its origins, through its attains an epic sweep which adds to its informing character a gradual growth and later swift development under the pres- fascination the writer has never encountered in architectural sure of various world trends and forces to its present-day histories...
...of this painstaking handbook of Christian Religion, beginning what the publisher announces to be the first attempt to sketch $3-00the history of Christian literature from "the making of the New F RANZ WERFEL, so vividly flashed upon the American Testament down to the close of the nineteenth century...
...It belongs to the living stage...
...a certain degree stimulating...
...Inman so vioEnemy where the preachment is so obvious as to lessen greatly lently accuses...
...New York: The Devin-ildair formula...
...carefully, he could have vastly improved his treatment of June 16, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 163 the Pan-American commercial background, so ably dealt with prevailing social order, into its own image...
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...was furtive...
...With her money, in the panic of 1893, he bought a bankrupt wire mill...
...Werfel is one of the most representative of modern European literary Jews...
...After a year their venture smashed tude maintained throughout the book of criticism of so much on the rocks of poverty, misunderstanding, and human weakthat our Latin American cousins are doing to help themselves, ness...
...If nationalism proceeds unchecked and sovereign state ; and second, that every national state should proud and intolerant, it is bound to produce even uglier doexpect and require of its citizens, not only unquestioning obedi- mestic strife...
...The main object of his study, I take it, is to awaken and stimulate thought upon a matter so delicate and so vital Essays on Nationalism, by Carlton J. H. Hayes...
...Its grasp of life, its pity, understanding, by the good sense of the American public, since to dwell upon probing feeling, and irony place Charles G. Norris among it, even though it needs to be said, might easily have impaired the important novelists of contemporary fiction...
...something which will foreshadow and explain the later de- People who have not had the intellectual and spiritual qualivelopments of Henry V. But to effect this impression it is fications to be sent to the Orient have at times been sent to surely unnecessary for the young prince to appear to be acting Mexico and South America with the thought that anything a part throughout all his contacts with Falstaff...
...New York: E. P. fortune and his wife's inheritance...
...Certainly no war film that competition for the Latin American market...
...Short student about to complete high school training...
...3.00 per annum, post free from looking too long into the face of the past...
...Could he not, as a mere act of justice, mention that stark religious feeling of their elders...
...and his own reactions to the mysteries of Christianity...
...Has our treatment of our own Indians been one whit cause of peace than a play such as Channing Pollock's The better than that of the countries whom Mr...
...came his credo...
...Norris's ideas in some hold sacred as is manifested in the process of forceable abinstances are not fully articulate...
...Even though one bears in the Christian literature of the first fifteen centuries of the mind certain random notions dear to Nietzche, it is astonishChurch before the Reformation," and it is a somewhat curious ing to find a German writer cheering with all his heart the spectacle to observe the turning of his mind upon Catholic melodic genius of Italy...
...The Big Parade is, of course, a Inman's book, as to just how this change of attitude is to be accomplished...
...and a matchless aptitude for emotional syntheses which, though nothing more to him, funda- AT a moment when the historical circumstances of early mentally, than spectacles, can arrest his ardent sympathy...
...She left him...
...CHRISTIANITY is a literary religion," writes the author Verdi, by Franz Werfel...
...ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY is a dramatist and the author of several books including Fires of Driftwood, and The Shining Ship...
...The Big Parade keeps rigidly to its The allusions to the development of commercial relations purpose of telling a story-a story that proceeds with a swift, between Latin America and the United States are particularly sure action, ample love interest, and genuine though not over- disappointing...
...No sentences in his book are truer into theatrical history...
...education in Latin America...
...There the evil is not that of lack of Ten Cents a Copy Eight Dollars a Hundred material but rather over-richness of material...
...The reviewer, who has studied lived in rooms on Christopher Street-supported by his slight at the universities of Buenos Aires and at that of San Marcos salary-and were happier than they were ever to be again at Lima, cannot but express his profound regret at the atti- this side of paradise...
...It is a satirical recital of the opportunity of life ing equally from the reaction of racial groups in the general in this country, with the satirical emphasis occasionally so community against any such intolerance to things they rightly slight as almost to escape intent...
...Its purpose is to show the potency of the idea of God THE CATHOLIC ART REVIEW in the development of great architectures and the book must An illustrated critical review covering all that is best in be critically estimated, not only as an historical and archaeo- Catholic art of the past and the present...
...for general comfort and safety...
...ArrangeEDWIN CLARK is a contributor of literary criticism to the New York Times and other periodicals...
...It is quite true that one must be able to see in the general impression has been in the past that any kind of a vagabond Hal something of the approaching dignity of a king, person would do to send as a missionary to Latin America...
...His big money, however, was made in bulky force in the continuance of the revolt against the sen- periods of financial chaos, where he acquired at minimum, timental tradition of the American novel, so successfully in- the property that others couldn't hold...
...With some of the sibly been as great factors as any in bringing the Americas spirited members of Mr...
...Short, however, created his own BRIEFER MENTION standard in the forepart of his book and while archaeologists and historians are many, the artist and his gifts are rare and Jn Outline of the History of Christian Literature, by George must be unwillingly foregone...
...Had Mr...
...The title-page and index for Volume III of The CommonCHARLES YON CHANDLER, an alumnus of the University of San Marco, Lima, is an expert on South American gtte5tions...
...one of the discoverers and pioneers, and that little or nothing You can look long and hard to find any unpatriotic senti- of any value had been done, said or written before he entered ments in this film...
...gians ought to interest a large number...
...The chapter enI have ever seen has managed to catch in an equal degree, the titled Early Efforts Toward Pan-Americanism is sketchy and grinding power of the war machine as it ate up men, steel, superficial, and utterly fails to show how it was that the early hopes, ambitions, and illusions...
...It reviews the BelThe gleaming coruscations of the tribe of Juda are really not gian migration into the Netherlands during the era of Spanish far different from spiritual Saint Vitus's dance...
...164 THE COMMONWEAL June 16, 1926 Pig Iron is a panorama of the transition of the American tageously be introduced for study into the classrooms of every scene...
...162 THE COMMONWEAL June i6, 1926 not give a bad performance...
...the Falstaff of Otis Skinner could be made comparable in Inman notes that "change of attitude must come in this counpopular interest to the Cyrano of Walter Hampden...
...New to the right growth of "Americanism" and the right developYork: The MacMillan Company...
...Merivale achieved so York: George H. Doran and Company...
...His critical judg- and all the other important elements involved in higher ment seems to be in abeyance, so eager is he to make the education are placed before student and parent so that service of indifferent and unfeeling architectures, that of God's they may be intelligently guided in their choice of college worship, reason for the glorification of inept buildings, even to A copy should be in the hands of the point of sentimentalizing them...
...Inman's personal visits to prominent South Americans stock news reels resurrected from war days and served up that one rather gathers the idea that he considers himself as with a slender thread of story to bind them...
...The publisher has done is a fascinating, often a philosophic, tour de force...
...This brings to consideration a curious weakening of Mr...
...His lightness of touch in treating what might seem to be to the The House of God, by Ernest H. Short...
...His life had become itiated by his brother, Frank Norris, and other pioneering business...
...Con- 1312 Massachusetts Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. sidering the historical excellence of this portion of the book this criticism would be captious were it a history of Gothic i66 THE COMMONWEAL June 16, 1926 architecture alone...
...These seem to have been written too the National Catholic Welfare Conference submits facts uncritically with a specious idea of completeness and as the on college education which should be placed before every matter is puerile as compared with greater epochs, Mr...
...While the effort to humanize architecture in hiseffects: to the world war, to post-war jealousies and suspicions, torical narrative is not new, Mr...
...Starting with the most primitive type of jungle June 16, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 165 sanctuary, a matter of reeds and boughs, the book takes the reader through the great spaces of the past where are envisaged with moving force and poetic grandeur, civilizations and the PORTSMOUTH SCHOOL noble investiture of civilizations, architecture...
...Inman's production...
...plete attitude of familiarity...
...The touch of fantasy in her Autumn Prayer will have MAUDE DUTTON LYNCH is the author of The Magic Clothes Pin, and several other books for children...
...Very Rev...
...Here, There is a crying need for some well-proportioned book in its functioning, we ihave the beginnings of the uplift that will answer the pressing urgency for a real introduction movement, whose social consciousness, increasing with years, to Latin American problems...
...With all her naivete, there remains the delicate touch W. L SCOTT, author of Studies on the Oriental Rites, is a King's Counsel of Ottawa...
...Here he becomes aware of the import and not in 1903, as we might be tempted to judge from the of religion in life and the ways of the world in the Age of section on Practical Scientists in Latin America...
...In his new novel, Pig Iron, we have a phase to disagree...
...ence and supreme loyalty, not only an exclusive patriotism, but There is meat in his remark that: "The ancient reflective also unshakable faith in its surpassing excellence over all other Roman imagined that one chosen people was one too many nationalities and lofty pride in its peculiarities and its destiny...
...an eye for sensual atmosphere, which sees even while Company...
...P ROFESSOR HAYES has made in this volume a con- The two chapters on Nationalism as a Religion, and Nationtribution to the understanding of certain fundamental alism and Intolerance are of particular present value...
...J. E. RONAN is professor of sacred music at Saint Augustine's Seminary, Toronto, and the author of Catholic Church Music...
...J. HUGH DIMAN, O.S.B...
...Leopold Hurst...
...than the following: "We must realize that in Latin America there is a cultured class equal to any in the world...
...Yet it is a novel of social sorption...
...F RESH from the triumphs of characterization attained in What Price Glory, Laurence Stallings, one of its authors, But it is a little difficult to ascertain, after reading the innumerable quotations which consume the greater part of Mr...
...and it is refreshing to find that Mr...
...We have grown accus- THE CATHOLIC ART REVIEW 13 Maple Street London, W. 1, England tomed to the harm to creative architectural design resulting Price...
...admirably in Hotspur...
...place where you made good contacts for getting on...
...is objective and the criticism by implication...
...Our architects are overwhelmed by its grandeur, swamped by its wealth of detail, overengrossed in its age long, highly developed finish...
...A chapter entitled Refutation of Claims is dilettanteism...
...Somewhere ment there appears to hinge the solution of many, if not most, there may be a commercial manager who will recognize that Pan-American problems...
...An historian of the cold enumerative type only dimly sensible to aesthetic values might escape the trap of this vast perfection, which has caught Mr...
...In the handling of the material of the Gothic era, this, of I course, is not the fault...
...BARRY BYRNE...
...No attempt is made to give any historical backdone pathos...
...The volume of information has produced too great a mass of detail for the NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE CONFERENCE fine design of the book and the forest, the beautiful forest of Publications Department Mr...
...No more important question can be asked a parent Perhaps in Mr...
...This out this volume...
...logical narrative, but also as an art work in which the justifi- ARCHITECTURE-PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND DECORATIVE ART cation of the method and treatment lies in its unity with the -LITURGICAL ART-MUSIC-POETRY-THEATRE central idea...
...Hurst undertook in prethe biographical novel, Verdi, so curiously passionate and yet paring to meet "the need of English-speaking Protestants with intrinsically aloof from its theme...
...The relative importance of our trade with Latin America Samuel Osgood Smith is just a normal, healthy, country before and after our Civil War, and the influence of an Ameri- boy, with considerable sentiment and a fine physique from can-owned merchant marine on all our Pan-American rela- hard farm work...
...With the coming of the Reformation, the author Wagner, and with the unescapable inhibitions of time...
...Affairs of Peru were graduates of Georgetown University...
...sustained throughout...
...In Wall Street, he came within a point of losing his growing Pig Iron, by Charles G. Norris...
...The conclusions are temperate but the evidence, bottom a quite fierce negation of civilized man...
...world...
...His heritage and the background of New tions might well have received ample treatment in Mr...
...ries, who will be able to make their own deductions...
...the dramatic interest...
...Over its pages broods the sensibility and longing of a soul looking with wonder, yet To be opened by the Benedictine Fathers of the with understanding, on past greatness...
...Incidentally, Innocents...
...That bebe the first to resent any such criticism of ourselves-does Mr...
...of the art, holy and unaffected, which always marks her writLEONARD FEENEY, S.J., contributes poetry to the current magazines...
...Another subject pathetically slighted is the back- farm, its tragedy of the soil, and the sad circumstances under ground of our scientific contacts-which began with the visit which he left for New York...
...they are simple manifestations of a superb, frus- particularly comparable to literary dynamite...
...There is lots of humor scat- commercial contacts broadened into the first official and diplotered throughout the picture and many extraordinarily fine matic relations...
...His start was in a period where the ownership of the revolt against the village-the shift of population to of railroads was stolen overnight, and his final position of the cities, and the moulding of the raw product, by the financial dominance is the complex modern life of today...
...Short's creation, disappears because of the trees...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Weal are now ready, and will be sent upon request...
...If this restless, insatiable, I N her new collection, The Child on His Knees, we find flaming Semitic mind is hauntingly meteoric, perhaps there Mary Dixon Thayer in her most characteristic and most effecis no harm in recalling the permanence and charm of the stars...
...It is an evocation of the past, reticent, detailed only with reference to the design of the book and not to the point of voluminosity...
...Short's book, which paradoxically occurs at the point Published every two months in the historical narrative where the strength and volume of material is greatest, the Gothic era...
...Mothers and convent PRINCESS CATHERINE RAnztwiLL is a magazine contributor of his- educators will recognize at once Miss Thayer's success in her torical criticism, and the author of They Knew the Washingtons, and other books...
...gives us none of the free and complete abandonment to a merrier mood which alone would account for Falstaff's com- What are these "intellectual and spiritual qualifications...
...tive mood...
...A resurgent force throws as evil) of "nationalism as a religion...
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...King Vidor, its direc- ings to which he alludes in his bibliography a little more tor, has achieved here something of real importance...
...Not that the matter, as history, is not well treated...
...To succeed in this smug, prosperous era, it was necessary The Pan-American activities of both Georgetown and Notre to conform to a severe moral pattern, and yet, transition Dame, to say nothing of many other honored United States was unconsciously in flux within this restricted social order...
...application to The Commonweal...
...We who persecution, and then proceeds to outline the effect this mihave seen Werfel toy with Christian sentiment, especially in gration ultimately had upon the settlement of the American his earlier poems, have also seen the Bockgesang, which is at continent...
...F. WULSTAN KNOWLES (Prior) O.S.B., In the forepart this mood of the book is the product of or Rev...
...He has the best of Semitic creative gifts: inThe Belgians: First Settlers in New York and in the Middle destructible spirituality, not to be captured by any code or States, by Henry G. Bayer...
...Wright was a Mount Saint Mary's College in Maryland in 1857...
...of religious belief to civilization and architecture...
...The book car- PORTSMOUTH, R. I. (Eight miles north of Newport) ries a spell of its own making...
...In this respect it counts written by Latin Americans of their visits to the United seems to me a far more skilful piece of propaganda in the States...
...Short's case it is the closeness of the Gothic when a son or daughter is about to graduate from high era and the wealth of detailed information available, but the school...
...Head Master) unity of material with treatment which imparts to it the nobil- St...
...3.00...
...and there Prince Hal himself was merely acting in all his escapades with are few such problems more serious than that which the Falstaff and the ruffians of the Boar's Head Tavern, so con- author mentions on Page 380: "It is a well-known fact that scious and deliberate a Prince Hal as Mr...
...The author attempts no flights of the imagination and the poems CONTRIBUTORS L J. S. Wooo is the Rome correspondent of The Tablet (London...
...The book He takes his definition of nationalism, innocuous or even as a compilation is rich in information and unusually broad in praiseworthy as it might seem as set down boldly, and traces scope...
...An excelcannot say as strongly as can his reviewers that it is unique lent contemporary illustration of that very fact may be found in that it places conveniently, concretely, and comprehensively in the series of confessions of faith running in The Forum and before this nation and before the Catholic student a basis of other magazines and publications in the English-speaking study of grave importance to both...
...Catholic college in the United States...
...the carrying power of his book in the present temper of the EDWIN CLARK...
...So much of it is given over to an account of obviates at once the feeling that the battle scenes are merely Mr...
...They of Mr...
...At the same time it manages in a very on his self-appointed "survey of social conditions"-and many forceful way to impose its own conclusion as to the futility of his surveys could be very pleasantly paralleled with acof war when reckoned in its human cost...
...that gift of Graham Wallas who can make so grey a theme M R. ERNEST SHORT has accomplished, in The House as The Growth of Local Self-Government in England a nar- of God, a task of magnitude in producing a history of rative every bit as fascinating as an Irish fairy-tale by Stephen architecture, the purpose of which is to show the relationship Graham...
...We are suffering life into perspective and the friends of his youth, and their from a growing insistence upon the absorption of everythingdestinies, mingle ironically with the successful figure of even religion and education into the nation, and we are sufferSmith...
...His versatility, marshaled in quick array as it is, may well invite argument his marvelous range of imaginative adaptation, are not at all and refutation...
...It is only a matter of regret that this mood is not in England and Fort Augustus in Scotland...
...the bril- the brief space and cautious treatment accorded to Saint Thomas Aquinas as contrasted with the enthusiastic notice given to liant analysis of his sharp battle with the burdening genius of Savonarola...
...boss...
...work...
...New realize that the whole thing is a hymn to a picture which has York: The Macmillan Company...
...really does not have to know much about the author-that is, much besides what is written between the lines of Verdi-to The Child on His Knees, by Mary Dixon Thayer...
...Equally queer are the imaginative authors, the magnifying and minimizing of works according to convolutions of the novel itself-the painstaking, ruminative, and yet detached sketch of Venetian life into which the Maestro the peculiar Protestant claims upon their authority, for instance comes silently, in the hope of a regenerative holiday...
...devoid of a Roman empire and replete with dozens upon He has chosen as his medium of expression a happy style, dozens of chosen peoples...
...But American life are attracting more attention than has ever if these are gifts, one may be pardoned for suggesting that, before been the case, this volume devoted to the pioneer Belfrom the European point of view, they are dangerous ones...
...Short's book is a history it is, I believe, that and something more...
...an appeal for the grown-ups as well as the youngsters...
...gambler, John W. Gates, and increased his wealth...
...The cause of the failure in the design Six Years' Course College Preparatory of the book is an interesting one as it is the same as that which For farther information, o-¢p!y :o lies at the basis of our artistic poverty in architectural design...
...A novel whose thesis has been buried by the to confusion between race and religion, an important point humanity of its characters, to its proper position-that of which Professor Hayes has wisely left to right interpretation a point of view...
...are all the better for this restraint...
...It is a mine of information, but the mood WHY A CATHOLIC COLLEGE so marvelous and moving which the book creates, is impaired in this section just as it is destroyed in the chapters on Post- EDUCATION ? Reformation Architecture and on Religious Architecture of the This booklet prepared by the Bureau of Education of Nineteenth Century...
...He is a of this country...
...Anselm's Priory, Brookland, Washington, D. C. ity of the architectures and the spacious grandeur of the ages discussed...
...turn of the market, he withdrew and started an iron foundry...
...has written the scenario of one of the most effective motion pictures launched this year...
...THE interests of Charles G. Norris, as a novelist, center His rise to great wealth is the story of the industrial change innately upon various aspects of Americana...
...7.50...
...No better answer can be found than the one portion dealing with that period, which might be described as given in the climax of the design of the book, suffers in comparison with the preceding part...
...New York: The average reader a somewhat prosy subject is reminiscent of Macmillan Company...
...These forepart of the book raises that portion to the plane of an fathers conduct Downside and Ampleforth Schools art work...
...Norris has that high merit of story-telling, the ability to We also are suffering in America, acutely, from the same create character, and his portrait of Smith is worthy to stand evil (which I think Professor Hayes very rightly sets down with Babbitt and Hurstwood...
...it repudiates repulsive animalism...
...enchanted momentarily, and which may give way tomorrow to its no less enchanting opposite...
...Sydney was good enough for those fields...
...The force of rationalEngineer Luis A. Huergo, one of Argentine's most outstand- ization, the predominant insistence upon material prosperity, ing scientific men, was twice unanimously elected President the spiritual barren of the period, had taken its toll, and of the United States Universities' Club in Buenos Aires— the Protestant church was emphasizing the social element and that he and his distinguished brother were graduates of to excess...
...This is important, because while Mr...
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...It is the New York of steam elevated, horsehow about the young Cubans whom Bishop Flaget of Louis- cars, gaslights and the old 400, when Fourteenth Street and ville brought to the United States to study in 18o1 ? And Broadway were the crossroads of a city that was quickly to the fact that a President of Chile and a Minister of Foreign be vanquished by industrial change and expansion...
...He inspired confidence in other men and Inman remember the parable about taking the beam out of had the ability to sell...
...Sydney's is hardly in Protestant missionary circles in the United States that the credible...
...The Y. M. C. A. secretary management of the Boar's Head Tavern by the inimitable in charge was horrified : "We don't want to hear about RivaFrancis of James T. Powers...
...Inman had a chance-and abetted by the humanitarianism of the Victorian age, has he unfortunately missed it...
...Inman's England are fully presented, with his early youth on the volume...
...He had his very fine moments, but they were confined in a general way to the more serious BOOKS and elocutionary passages...
...Unless you accept the theory that P ROBLEMS in Pan-Americanism is well named...
...He is taken in charge by of the Brazilian, Hyppolito Jose da Costa Pereira, to the his Uncle Cyrus, a deacon in a large Protestant church, a United States in 1798-1799 (he was the only South American man of means with a butler and an impressive brownstone whom we know to have seen George Washington personally) front for his home...
...suggestive of the easy familiarity of the lecture room...
...What he conspicuously lacked was Problems in Pan-A4mericanism, by Samuel Guy Inman...
...The popular Bible class of Mr...
...It is try [the United States] if we are to have a real friendship not a performance which should be allowed to pass quietly with Latin America...
...The technique by Professor Robertson of Illinois...
...Inman's The young people weren't infused with the almost frenzied, book...
...We have no trated ambition to share the cenacles of the Christian mind...
...We must The Big Parade realize that they have produced some of the world's greatest men...
...He married the daughter of his our own eyes before criticizing the mote in our brother's...
...It was mental screen, is nowhere more obviously himself than in assuredly something of a labor Dr...
...The author defines the modern doctrine of nationalism in Most timely is his warning to us that: "The time may its two-fold aspect as follows: first, that each nationality (i.e., come when, by the spirited stirrings of ultra-nationalists, the a group of persons speaking the same language and observing American melting pot will be a seething cauldron of fiery nonthe same customs) should constitute a united independent fusible nationalism...
...It had nothing of the present-day articulate The misspellings-"Nebuco" for "Nabuco" on Page 32, note...
...We in the United States would He resolved to make money-and more money...
...And how about our divorce problem...
...ments have been made for binding Volume III in leather or BARRY BYRNE, an architect of Chicago and one of the leaders in in cloth, information regarding which will be supplied on the newer schools of design, writes on architecture and literature for current magazines...
...Incidentally, and the Lady Mortimer of Eileen Huban...
...His wife and two children were far from his novelists of the last years of the past century and the early desire, and his attitude toward them was one of agreeing years of this...
...Wright's Bible class, he was inclose together, are anywhere considered worthy of reference or troduced to books, speculative and cultural ideas, and the mention, it is possible that his book may not be without in- appreciation of the pleasure of life...
...He fell in love with a country girl, who had been "Velara" for "Valera" on Page 24-do not add to the value brought to New York, and deserted by an actor...
...Inman, on its advancethe memory of those fortunate enough to see it...
...Short, sensible as he is to it, as it has also caught the architects of our time, and to their un- WHAT COLLEGE THIS SEPTEMBER ? doing...
...The war scenes are a conscientious attempt to ground or to analyze in any detail the subject of international picture conditions as they existed...
...These poems are a simple expression of the thoughts of a child who has been instructed in the Catholic religion GEORGE N. SHUSTER...
...In the conflict, group nationalism too often tends protest...
...since the reviewer's religious beliefs prevented-and still preIn spite of the difficulties of the play itself and all the minor vent-his affiliating himself with the Y. M. C. A., it is imcriticism which might be brought to bear, this revival had possible for him to state what the policy of that organization many features which will make it live long and gloriously in is in Latin America...
...While these archaeological and historical knowledge, forms a combination effects and consequences are common to all the world, and that is rare equipment for the purpose of the book...
...the thoughtful modern Chris"This," he says, "is nationalism, and it is a modern phe- tian may be pardoned for being a bit pessimistic about a world nomenon...
...every Catholic high school student...
...lie at the root of all the varied forms of nationalistic and of Archaeology is a told story written for specialists but The much of international striving and disturbance, all that he House of God has no archaeological dryness-it is as moving says is directly applicable to us and might well and advan- as life itself...
...New York: Simon and Schuster...
...The revolt of Sam fluence in arousing some interest in Pan-American commerce...
...The mood of the English Congregation, Sept...
...It is peopled with a score of fine characterizations...
...He, as author of this con- toric Protestantism one is impressed less by the novelties which tribution, could hardly do more than point out almost casually, the reformers introduced into the content of Christianity than as he has done, the need for a comprehensive study of this sub- by the conservatism with which they clung to certain central ject, since there is no other such work in any language ; he dogmas and rites of the older Christian Church...
...wish to investigate it further here, being sure that those who Yes, Franz Werfel can write of Verdi as no German could, read the volume will enjoy it the more for being told that it or ought to, because he is not himself a German...
...28th, 1926...
...The reviewer is more than disappointed at story of the American part played in the great war, but it manages by skilful manipulation of plot to center the inter- the lack of historic background everywhere noticeable throughest effectively on the four or five principal characters...
...He has given us some ideas found outlet and expression in its efforts to purify society at on Latin American literature, especially poetry, which are to large by sumptuary legislation...
...and, though neither the steam- The solemn, chilly, and smug atmosphere of his uncle's ship company nor the leading business firms, which have pos- house held slight allurement for Sam...
...2.00...
...and the is decidedly in a more comfortable field and produces a book ensemble of grotesque human abnormality, sickeningly futile, that will be useful to students and searchers in reference librawhich sets the healthy soul of Verdi in relief...
...Other excellent portraits in davia and San Martin-we want to hear about leading these the long cast included the Henry IV of William Courtleigh, people to God" Comment seems superfluous...
...institutions of learning, are strangely absent from Mr...
...world...
...ment of the Church in America...
...simple, easily readable and understood, almost colloquial and WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...
...Most phenomena underlying modern world conditions the importance useful, in the former, is his reminder that: "as one studies hisof which can hardly be overrated...
...Saved by the upward Dutton and Company...
...According to Mr...
...The book must be read with an open mind...
...1.25...
Vol. 4 • June 1926 • No. 6
