Communications
January 19, 1927 THE COMMONWEAL 299 William Williams, recently Strephon, now parades and de-liciously sings as the unfortunate Frederic, the slave of duty. Ernest Lawford, not quite so well cast...
...Evwtr~ Cta~a~ is a New York critic of books, and a contributor to the general press...
...but there are so many characters and so many motives that one is confused to find who is the hero and who is the villian even at the final drnouement...
...Harvey Wickham's article, The Facts of Fascism, there is no need to attempt to make a lengthy rejoinder to the remarks con-tained in Dr...
...Mary Alice Ires Fondu (I837-97) "Otavia Hensel," the friend of Liszt and Wagner...
...The audience responded with gusts of laughter to incidents that would have tickled even the small boy home from board- ing-school...
...Sophia May Tuckerman Eckley (1823-74...
...Julia Adams Sargent Wood ("Minnie Mary Lee") ; Reverend Russell Jones Wil- bur...
...Edith Walker Cook...
...Sarah Trainer Smith...
...TnBOnoEB MAYNAaD, poet and critic, is the author of Drums of Defeat...
...Fenimore Cooper Pomeroy (Stella Maria Woolson...
...REv...
...Elvira Sydnor Miller...
...Ellen C. Doran Howarth (I827-99...
...AMBROSE FARLEY is a translator and teacher of classical poetry...
...T Stockton, Calif...
...Mosek as Minister of the Postal Service, and Dr...
...And she is a most welcome newcomer at that, with a delicate coloratura voice, a delightful pair of sympathetic eyes and a quiet, pointed humor...
...The presence already of three Catholic Ministers in the Cabinet: Dr...
...COMMUNICATIONS T AMERICAN CATHOLIC POETS Belleville, Ill...
...John Howard Payne (I819-91...
...Laura Keene (x820-73) the great actress...
...Ruth, the piratical maid-of-all-work, is the ex-queen of the fairies, Vera Ross...
...Kunangazi...
...R.S.H...
...Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (I835-98) and her son, Vinton A. Goddard...
...For the rest, there is only one way to catch the peculiar charm of these Ames productions, and that is to see and hear theresa duty cheerfully recommended...
...Ioxt~ SUgaRY $da~NOAN is a poet, and a staxd~at and translator of the classics...
...O the Editor :--Since the appearance of Mr...
...Reverend Jeremiah W. Cummings (t823-66...
...LAwazscz O. WOLF, formerly of the Institute Suprfieur de Philosophie, of Louvaine, is now professor of Thomistlc philosophy in the seminary of St...
...HzNRY SOMBaV'ILt.~ is a writer on economics, and the London corre-spondent for the Toronto Star...
...Sramek as Minister of Social Welfare, Dr...
...and Popes and Science...
...William Augustine Newland (I813-r9o1...
...Margaret H. Lawless...
...CONTRIBUTORS REV...
...Perhaps the following list of names may not be unwelcome to readers of your periodical: George Henry Miles (1824-7I...
...Richard Henry Wilde (I787-I847...
...Charles H. A. Esling (x845...
...Joseph Con- verse Heywood (1834-x9oo) Harvard, I855, owner of the Porlonia Palace, Rome...
...Annie Chambers Ketchum, who always daimed as her own The Bonny Blue Flag...
...Alfred W. Moriarty...
...After all, the rather brainless interest of the plot, the un-certainty of everything, the general delirium of the action meet with such response on the part of the audience that one must classify The Wooden Kimono on a par with the pictures of Hairbreadth Harry, and sit in at the discussion whether the production is superhumanly clever or uncannily stupid...
...Reverend John Milton Harney (:787-I825) O.P...
...Robert Cox Stump...
...Susan L. Emery (x846-19:4) first to translate the Little Flower verses...
...It is true that this information was prema-ture and the negotiations concerning the former assignation of portfolios are still pending and will be resumed after the Christ- mas recess of Parliament...
...WILLIAM E. KERRISH...
...The Chttrch and Science...
...Francis Vie16-Griflin (1864-I917...
...Charles J. O'Malley (1857-I9IO...
...Ryan's letter in which he refers to what he calls my "wild and whirring words...
...Paul, Minnesota...
...Alice Worthington Winthrop (x846- ). JOHN ALDIS...
...Ryan, and the matter as well as the spirit of the statements made by highly-placed churchmen in Italy itself that I feel that the statement that Mussolini's discipline is constructive as well as being based upon the moral order, is accurate...
...Moses L. Linton (I812-72) ; Catherine Ware Warfield (I818-77) and her sister, Eleanor Percy Ware Lee (i82o-49...
...Maria Rives Gross Horwitz...
...and the editor of A Modern Book of Catholic Verse...
...Commander William Gibson (x826-87) U.S.N...
...As I am neither authorized to pronounce myself about the present state of the political relations between the Czecho-Slovakian government and the Holy See, nor think that this problem falls under the scope of the discussion raised by your first article, I shall limit my answer to pointing out the present attitude of the Slovak Popular party toward Svehsla's government, only...
...the election of the former leader of the Moravian Catholic party, Dr...
...Excellent though it is, Ryder's book contains no mention of the Yankee poet, George Hill, who not only enjoyed a national reputation as a man of letters, but as a fervent Catholic, and one of the founders of the Church in his native Guilford...
...and William C. Gordon takes a vacation from the Grenadier Guardsman to play the famous Sergeant of Police whose lament about the lot of the policeman "when constabulary duty's to be done" is something just this side of a classic...
...Helene Sanford Dow...
...Gazik as Minister for the Unification of Law and Dr...
...Denis McCarthy...
...Margaret Buchanan Sullivan...
...there is a real murder which makes one doubt whether or not, after all, the authors are serious...
...Sta BnTm~M C. A. WISDr-Z, professor of anthropology in Saint Michael's College, Toronto, is the author of Life in Early Britain...
...Mary Nixon Roulet...
...Ernest Lawford, not quite so well cast as for the Lord Chan- cellor, now assumes the burdens of Major-General Stanley with his multitudinous daughters...
...Kate Vannah, Elinore Cooper Bartlett...
...Ebene- zer Marvin Smalhy (I831-77) humorist, who succeeded John 300 THE COMMONWEAL January i9, I927 G. Saxe as editor of the Burlington (Vermont) Sentinel...
...But who ever hears of George Hill when Catholics enumerate their writers...
...O the Editor :--Father Daly's word about Irwin Russell reminds me of the world of American Catholic poets un- known to anthologists...
...Ellen Arrington (181o-67...
...Susan Blanchard Elder...
...Leo MataguN and Vxot,rr Axa~Ya Sr162 are coutributors of poetry to current magazines~ I'Iaaox.v VXSAL, poet and publisher, is the editor of the poetry magazine, Voice~ ~NNIgTIK SLAVE Ar-r-ING, formerly editor of The Measure, contributes poetry to the magazines...
...Donn Pr~.tt (1819-9I) first to encourage James Whitcomb Riley, whose Donn Pratt of Mac-o-chee ought to be better known...
...Rzv...
...But this follows: either he has misstated the prin- ciples of Fascism, or the many Catholics, high and low, church- men and laymen, who support Fascism in Italy must be pitied as affected by "confusion of thought...
...Reverend Charles C. Pise (I8o2-66...
...Eliza Allen Starr...
...Jedidiah V. Huntington (I824-7I...
...Mary Agnes Tincker...
...Gzoaos D. Mm~a~ows is an English literary critic, now residing in the United States...
...Richard Henry Savage...
...January 19, 1927 THE COMMONWEAL 299 William Williams, recently Strephon, now parades and de-liciously sings as the unfortunate Frederic, the slave of duty...
...John D. Bryant (I8II-77...
...Born in Guilford in 1796, Hill died in New York City in I871...
...Emma Forbes Cary...
...T THE SLOVAK POPULAR PARTY Washington, D. C. O the Editor:--I read with great interest the letter of Reverend A. A. Novajovsky published in your edition of December 29, dealing again with conditions in Czecho-Slovakia...
...ALBERT R. BANtam...
...Edith Riker Wilson...
...O the Editor:--I thank Father Ryan for elucidating my "confusion of thought" concerning his recent articles on Fascism...
...Catherine Rush Emerson Gardner (i833-I92o...
...Cornelia Durant Da Ponte...
...He is the editor of the Rosary M~rO'~NEUg----""~ PAUr~ING is an American essayist and journalist, residing in Europe.MARGAKET LEE KEY'rlSG contributes poetry and articles to current magazines...
...Jocelyn Johnston (1857-x9o3...
...Elizabeth Van Ness Ten Broeck (1815q9oI) R.S.H...
...Ryan a term so strong as "monstrous," which he uses in dealing with Fascism...
...and The Land of Pi~es and Gorillas...
...John A. Shea (I8o2-45) ; Major William Seton...
...Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet (I8i8-77...
...PEREGRm FIw T THE FACTS OF FASCISM Wollaston, Mass...
...Helen Haines...
...Emma Howard Wight...
...Mary Evelyn Converse (I869q915) ; Elizabeth Waylen ("Ethel Tane") ; Henshaw Dana (I846z83...
...Wendell Phillips Stafford...
...Mary Catherine Crowley...
...William Henry Cuyler Hosmer (I814-77...
...As for the American Federation of Labor, the kind of "discipline" they have more or less supported in Mexico has not called forth from Dr...
...Reverend Clarence A. Walworth (I82o-I9oo...
...However, there is obviously so wide a divergence between the views on" Fascism as expressed by Dr...
...Caroline Russell Bispham...
...Martha Duncan Walker Cook (I8o8-74) to whom Poland owes a statue...
...THOMAS M. SCHWER'rNER, O.P., is the author of The Dominicans in History...
...There are many others, either unknown to or ignored by our anthologists, whose claims to recognition should be hand- somely acknowledged in future works of this kind...
...Mary S. Furman Whitaker, and her daughter Lily...
...Lorenzo Da Ponte (I748-I838...
...Mary Ann Wetmore Spooner (1794-1877...
...Morris Hruban, to the dignity of Chairman of the Senate, the passing of the Congrua bill improving the material status of the Catholic clergy, are symptoms which indicate plainly that the present government is not and, under existing parliamentary conditions, could not be anti-Catholic...
...This party undoubtedly forms a part of the present govern- mental majority as its vote for the budget presented to the Parliament by the Prime Minister which could not be passed without this party's consent, and the party manifesto published after the vote in the main organ of the party, Slovak, and ex- plaining the reasons of the party's procedure, prove...
...James Jeffrey Roche ; Fitz James O'Brien (x828-62...
...Richard Storrs Willis (x819q9oo) Yale, I84x, composer of the music to the nationally popular hymn, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear...
...Paxscs WIrJ-tAM of Sweden is the second son of King Gustav...
...Cardinal Ascalesi, Archbishop of Milan, speaks of "the great end to be realized through the high qualities and unique charac- ter of the Duce," and the learned Benedictine, Father Primo- vesti, preaching at Liverpool, calls the r~glme of Mussolini, the reign of justice...
...John Savage (I828-88...
...Tisso as Minister of Public Health, were mentioned...
...Reverend Donald X. McLeod (182x-65...
...William Henry Thorne (I839-19o7...
...and Dominican Devotions...
...He is well known as the author of Selene...
...Mary Newmarch Prescott (I849-I9oi) sister of Harriet Prescott Spofford...
...Helen Bartlett Bridgman...
...Sister M. Fides Shepperson...
...Cornelius A. Logan (I8o6-53...
...He graduated at Yale in 1814, was an instructor in the United States navy, author of several volumes of verse, of the anthology mentioned above, of an historical novel, of the dedi- cation ode for the unveiling of the Halleck statue...
...Charles A. L. Morse...
...and Scholasticism and Vitalism...
...Harrison Conrad...
...Joseph Brennan (18z8-57...
...Howard Hayne Caldwell (i823-58...
...Reverend Benjamin D. Hill (I842q916) C.P...
...And speaking of anthologists, how many are aware that in the infant days of the Church in this country appeared George Hill's British Catholic Poets, to be followed in I881 by Eliot Ryder's The Household Library of Catholic Poets (I35o-r88I) in which Americans had their first share of attention...
...ERNEST SUa'X~ZRIatND BA'rEs, formerly professor of p.hilosophy in the University of Oregon, is a writer on educational and literary tonics...
...Robert Dwyer Joyee (I836-83...
...James Ryder Randall, author of Maryland, My Maryland...
...Colonel Theodore O'Hara (1828-67) whose stirring Bivouac of the Dead is inscribed over the gateways of most of our national cemeteries...
...Reverend Alfred Young, C.S.P., Princeton, I848...
...Caroline Daven-port Swan...
...This letter contains some items I feel obliged to answer in order to present the matter in the right aspect...
...It seems to me therefore, a very serious misunderstanding of the present political conditions in Czecho-Slovakia and a com- plete misinterpretation of the apparent development of the rela- tions between both Catholic parties in Czecho-Slovakia and the government when Reverend Novajovsky dares to call and stigmatize the present administration in Czecho-Slovakia as "inimical to Catholicism and opposed to the just aspirations of the Slovaks, 80 percent of whom are Catholics...
...GLAnYS GRAHAM contributes criticism and essays to American publica-tions...
...Brother Azarias...
...Marion Ames Taggart, whose priceless Griffin ought to appear in every anthology...
...T.W...
...In this connection, the question of how many and which portfolios will be assigned to the Slovak Popular party seems to me of minor importance and I accepted bona fide the information published in some of the Czecho-Slovakian newspapers in New York about the entrance of the Slovak Popular party into the gov- ernment where the names of Dr...
...he was librarian of the State Department, consul to Asia Minor, etc...
...Reverend John F. Moranville (x76o-1824...
...Elizabeth Francis Nash Cecil...
...Mayr Harting as Minister of Justice...
...Eliot P. Ryder (x856-86) "Samuel H. Derbry...
...Bernhard Berenson ("Mary Logan...
...Angelique De Lande (I843-I916...
...JAMES J. WALSH, M.D., is the author of The Thirteenth, the Greatest of Centuries...
...James Webb Rogers (1822-96) Princeton, I84I, father of the famous scientist, James Harris Rogers...
...Edwin Benjamin Russell...
...The Wooden Kimono T HE large audiences that are greeting the presentation of The Wooden Kimono show that the childhood of the average man points to the eternal, for a more preposterous agglomeration of melodrama and improbability has rarely been seen in a New York theatre...
...Colonel George Hay Ringgold (xSx4-64) ; Charles J. Cannon (I8oo-6o) ; Esmeralda Boyle...
...Anna Payra Dinnies (i8o5-86) ; William Giles Dix (Harvard, I845...
...Blair Fairchild, Paris...
...Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (I857q926) ; George Parsons Lathrop (I851-98) ; Ripley Dunlap Saunders (1856-1915...
...In fact, the only newcomer is Ruth Thomas as Mabel, the most heroic of all General Stanley's daughters...
Vol. 5 • January 1927 • No. 11
