The Only Door (verse)
Powers, Jessica
January 12, 1927 THE COMMONWEAL 269 How John Knox and his followers must have held their hands up in horror at sight of the Marguerites of Margaret of Navarre; Verard's Jardin de Plaisance; and...
...When Svehla offered the two ministries, he made it known that no priest could have the ministry, and the offer was re-fused...
...Many of the letters have, too, phrases and other touches, reminiscent of her acquaintance with her library...
...In his The World Unbalanced, Gustave le Bon says: "No people can have a government better than itself...
...It was the Mass, or, rather, the hostile intolerance of re-ligious zealots, which was the undoing of Mary Stuart...
...COMMUNICATIONS KOSCIUSZKO : A LITHUANIAN New York, N. Y. T O the Editor :--My attention has just been drawn to the artide, Kosciusko: A Lithuanian, by Joseph B. Konce- vicius , which appeared in The Commonweal of December 29...
...The last details in the inventory of the Holyrood collection-- the books to which Queen Mary was undoubtedly most attached --are exceedingly significant...
...There is no need to go upon tradition and any details which her contemporaries have left, to buttress the statement that Queen Mary outvied Elizabeth and other sixteenth-century women in the width and depth of her riaental calibre...
...Uncertain minds always make uncertain governments...
...The Only Door "I am seeking a door to this House of Yesterday," The dreamer said, "For Yesterday's sins are eating at my board, And Yesterday's ghosts are sleeping in my bed...
...His seven volumes---most of the Queen's letters are written in French...
...For example, your author quotes the second will of Kosciuszko, made in Paris, in which Kosciuszko refers to himself as "a native of Lithuania in Poland...
...O the Editor :--If Mr...
...I told him right to his face the way it was...
...Conditions in Czecho-Slovakia are not so bright as Mr...
...There has always been some misunderstanding on that point, in view of the fact that Kosciuszko always referred to Lithuania as a province of Poland, and in that sense he was a Lithuanian --just as Washington was a Virginian and A1 Smith is a New Yorker...
...January 12, 1927 THE COMMONWEAL 269 How John Knox and his followers must have held their hands up in horror at sight of the Marguerites of Margaret of Navarre...
...I said: "You can end this bitterness and strife, But the only door you can shut on Yesterday Is the door that you shut on Life...
...These will be sent upon request...
...Mary Stuart was the living impersonation of Catholicism, and with Catholicism, therefore, she fell when the Church waned nigh to death in Britain...
...CONDITIONS IN CZECHO-SLOVAKIA Bridgeport, Conn...
...JOSEF A. SKODA-SCRIBNI~R...
...The article is very well written, and all that the author says is true...
...Lithuania at that time was a province of Poland, and in accordance with the custom, all those born in that province spoke of themselves as Lithuanians...
...Ignorance might have been safety...
...Perhaps nowhere else, outside the hierarchy of the Church, are a steadfast adherence to the Faith and anxiety and thought- fulness for all professing itmnay, for all who would win heavenly grace---more nobly set forth than by Mary of Scots in her correspondence...
...The title page and index /or volume IV o/ The Common-weal are now ready...
...In a letter written from Bolton, November 30, I568, to Phillip II of Spain, condoling with him on the death of his queen, she says: "I am an obedient, submissive, and devoted daughter of the holy Roman Catholic Church, in the faith of which I wish to live and die, without having ever had any other desire than that--a desire which, with God's assistance, I shall never alter in any manner...
...STEPHEN P. MlZWA...
...It is not the Czechs whom Hlinka fears, but the Communists in Slovakia...
...Item, tayne by my Lordis Grace and birnt [burned]: VI Mess Buiks...
...From the list of them it is easily seen that she took all pains to acquaint herself with both the Protestant and the Catholic sides of affairs and religion in order the better to govem her very turbulent kingdom...
...This is a fact known to the government and to Hlinka's party...
...a large number in the English or Scots dialect...
...I am at a loss, however, to understand what the author means when he says that Kosciuszko was a Lithuanian...
...Fi~a would have us believe...
...Do you suppose that if Kosciuszko were a Lithuanian racially and culturally, he would have become the national hero of Poland and have been regarded as Poland's greatest patriot ? Even if he could, the Poles, being rather touchy on the point of nationalism, would not have had the affectionate admiration and reverence for him that they possess...
...JEssmA POWERS...
...but he is still very much alive and the Lithuanians somehow or other are afraid to claim him as their own, racially...
...some in Latin...
...Her let- ters stand out in testification--as anyone may realize on care-fully perusing the collection so laboriously brought together and edited by Prince Labanoff...
...and a few in Italian-- reveal that her correspondence has a vigor, a directness of thought and utterance, and an elegance (to use a much misused word) of style...
...together with an expression of moods, which in many instances are not only startlingly modern, but can only he acquired through familiarity with literature...
...Czecho-Slovakia, after Russia, has the greatest number of Communist deputies in the Parliament...
...I am sure that Mr...
...and above all, Pontus de Tyard's extraordinary farrago, Erreurs Amoureuses...
...Arrangements have been made for binding volume IV in leather or cloth.9 Information on binding will be given upon application to the offices o/ The Commonweal.9...
...Marshal Pilsudski in this sense is also a Lithuanian, as he was born in that province...
...I wonder, if this is not true of the Czecho-Slovakian government...
...Peregrin Fi~a had said that two .9 .9 .9 .9 , ' J-mamstnes were offered to Hhnka s Slovak People s party, during Hlinka's visit here, and that some, in Hlinka's party, were ready to acept the offer, we could not disagree with him...
...Flea realizes as well as some of us do, that the Communists, in any country, are not a sign of brightness...
...Yet, perhaps, their anathemas were lessened and lightened at sight of the many volumes in the Queen's library dealing with the polemics of her day...
...She that was, as the lists of her books indicate, far ahead of her compeers in intellectual attainment...
Vol. 5 • January 1927 • No. 10
