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might disappear along with the old name and give this inno- cent devil a long run in his cheese. Dwight Frye, Robert McWade, Catherine Doucet, and the charming Linda Watkins all play up to this...
...Munich: Verlag Jose[ K~sel and Fr'wdHch Pustet...
...ERNEST SUTHERLAND BATES...
...Short shrift is given to the "Nordic" myth, which still dominates American minds more influenced by race prejudice than sound science...
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...It would be interesting to consider how this observation has served to create the basis for the great psychoanalytic critique of modern times...
...Nowhere, on the other hand, has psychology progressed further of recent years than in the study of instinct...
...The illustrator of the text, C. E. Millard, has done the task admirably...
...translated by E. G. Messenger...
...Peillaube's definition of perception is adopted: "a complexus of psychological states, sensations, images, resemblances, judgments and reasonings, all referring to some actual impression...
...Were the dreams of these founders too vast for their people ? Were the powers of rapine too powerful to be controlled by the earlier culture...
...Scattered throughout the volume are many illuminating com- parisons between Galsworthy and his contemporaries, both native and foreign, Shaw, of course, receiving most attention...
...A DMIRERS of John Galsworthy will welcome this book, which aims to elucidate some of the ideas running through his dramas and to examine the technical skill with which they are set forth...
...ELIZABETH CASE is a graduate of Welles!ey College, and well known as a contributor of poetry and articles to current magazines...
...Various controversial questions, such as racial superiority, opposing aspects of immigration, and the Soviets, are treated calmly and reasonably...
...Palache's pictures of "the impeccable poet" at the Magny dinners, among the women of the Paris salons, in intimate talk with Napoleon III...
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...What are usually called "errors of the senses" are really errors of attention, association, or judgment...
...A few such points may be instanced : Few terms are more frequently misused by many a wouldbe anthropologist than "primitive...
...The law governing the revival of images is cautiously stated in the following terms which cannot yet be made more specific: "States of past consciousness tend to revive...
...Collins Sons and Company...
...Ayres for this excellent document...
...Though one must suppose that the greater portion of a book like this can interest only the spe- cialist, it serves admirably to reveal the vitality and manifold variety of the scholastic movement...
...De Wulf succeeds in showing that this constructive effort was not so alien to the synthesis of Saint Thomas as has been supposed...
...The Peril of the White suggested alarmist essays and frenzied appeals to "Nordic" superiority in the style of Lothrop Stoddard...
...Gautier and the Romantics, by John Garber Palache...
...In considering the various theories of the origin of religion, our author pens the pregnant sentence: "It is not unlikely that in the long run we shall be led to the conclusion that religion is to be traced back to a number of different sources...
...If the play as a whole cannot be said to possess the theatrical charm of Each in His Own Way, it is probably more interest- ing as an illustration of PirandeUo's manner and doctrine...
...His carefully selected contributors do not, however, go out of their way to philosophize...
...Each of these types is so dazzled by one part of the truth as to be blinded to all the rest...
...SISTER M. ELEANORE...
...New York: Doubleday, Pace and Gompany...
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...for many of us shrink from the study, seemingly from a fear that it tends to debase revealed religion to the level of the merely natural, and ultimately to weaken faith by insinuating the notion that the history of religion is merely a record of the vagaries and aberrations of the human mind vainly seeking after the unreal or at least the unattainable...
...Coats, it must be admitted, is rather compiler than creator...
...The papers are concise, eminently read- able, and yet authoritative...
...New York: I4 z. 147...
...The same may be said of his exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity, of Orders, of the Eucharist, of the Scriptures as a source of revelation...
...And yet, any who are sensitive to a perfected, beautiful style in French prose and verse, one well-nigh flawless in its unerring choice of the right word at all times, will feel a tenderness for Gautier and his writing...
...And everyone who has visited Rome during the octave of the Epiphany has been able to observe for himself how far Roman Catholics are from having, or desiring to have, liturgical uniformity...
...Palache's writing is com- bined valid critical comment...
...would you not ask yourself about your own blessings...
...and that change might be unfortunate because we need a few such per- sons in the world to make the rest of us know how fortunate we are in not being like them...
...In fact, if any fault were to be found with the book, it would be that an almost journalistic contem- poraneousness sometimes has the effect of introducing theories as yet debatable...
...The heroine who tries to establish another "concept" of herself after the first had paled under the brutal glare of "life," who then finds herself inextricably bound up with the real past, and who finally com- mits suicide "naked" before the world, is handled with singular deftness and creative understanding...
...Her book, in short, provides a very interesting primer of decorative art...
...Topics as diverse in character as space, sunspots, the secrets of the sea, volcanic action, electricity, animal and plant life, bacteria and telephony are discussed in easily understandable modem terms and with the aid of the most recent information...
...Reade's book illustrates almost uncannily the extent to which bias, whether we use the term deprecatingly of mere prejudice or worthily of tenacity to clear first principles, enters into the historian's accomplishment of his task...
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...Then he becomes in the Dial parlance "signlficant"--he writes of "the American scene," and his work is so filled with delicate nuances that his appeal to the public that reads solely to be amused is lost...
...Suppose you had got up in the morning feeling cross and had started down the street only to discover that the air was "fresh and green as a lettuce leaf" and to meet an Artistic Pig, a "round rosy little Pig with beady eyes and a twisty-wisty tail" who carried a basket filled with flowers and who jauntily sang: "I trot, I trot, I trot-- Of money I have not...
...The Peril of the IChite, by Sir Leo Chiozza Money...
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...The great Pope, tragically destined to see the beginnings of the downfall of Christendom even while he was building a new Rome, moves like a grand but very human prince through the entire story...
...Moreover, the author has written unusually readable and accurate summaries of the plays and analyses of their interrelations, and has illustrated them by excellent excerpts as well as by pertinent quotations from the playwright's prefaces and novels...
...There is some attention paid to Italian and Spanish bric-a-brac and references to Dutch and German glass...
...At present we have absolutely nothing like it in English, and it is extremely doubtfill whether it would be possible to produce here anything quite as good...
...where this reviewer parts company with the author is in the chapter on Christianity...
...There are whole scenes of amazing dialogue...
...J. M. K~NNY, Ja...
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...GEORGr D. MEADOWS...
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...He has included his composite description of the season's costume balls, some of his replies to circular letters addressed to him, and many other of his bright days' stunts...
...FgI~DERtCK H. MAgTEUS...
...In these days, when "Christianity" is a term employed to cover religions so diverse as Catholicism and Quakerlsm, with the innumerable varieties in between, it is simply hopeless to describe the thing satisfactorily in a few pages...
...CONTRIBUTORS OH~ MXTrgthtURR is a member of the staff of the Vienna Reiehspost...
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...The relative importance of organs and brain in sensation is still a moot question, while the seat of images, on the other hand, has been definitely located in the brain...
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...For a time she helped to keep the "Tale-teller" in good spirits by carrying on as a student to whom he taught composition...
...There are sly subtle touches of humor that may escape the child mind, but that afford delighted chuckles to older understandings...
...If you have followed him regularly you are bound to regret that he has not included the morning that you thought he was so funny, but the collection is generous enough to include something to please every taste...
...THOMAS WALSH...
...Thurber and Peg Entwistle as her daughter gave very creditable performances, which were topped off by an easy rendering of the important, if not very difficult, rSle of Sidney Toler as David Tuttle...
...We have too long divorced our positive sciences from our metaphysics...
...by tCilliam tCinwood Reade...
...and throughout he wisely abstains from theorizing himself, but rather gives what is either established fact or at least widely-accepted theory...
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...FRANCIS A. L~TZ is instructor in English at Baltimore City College, and Teachers' College of Johns Hopkins University...
...Sir Leo Chiozza Money, on the other hand, confines himself to the present day and undertakes to present "the world's popula- tion in perspective...
...The actual errors in mere statements of fact, which more advanced scholarship than that of Reade or of the year 1872 would corlect, are comparatively unimportant...
...Since Ring Lardner has gone over to the tear behind the smile, proving again the popular superstition that all comedians languish in their secret souls to play Hamlet, the white hope of popular humor is Frank Sullivan...
...the style is natural and good-humored without being trivial...
...Hence, while a reader may not agree with each individual statement or endorse each separate position he will not quarrel with the general method or point of view...
...THEODORE MAYNARD IS an English poet and critic residing in the Umted...
...BRIEFER MENTION History of Mediaeval Philosophy, by Maurice de 14Zulf...
...Duns Scotus "did not criticize for the sake of criticizing, but in order to construct...
...If you see this book, you will be sure to imagine some child's hands reach- ing for it, and you will buy it...
...and so on...
...HEN an English translation of M. Klaczko's work first W appeared in 19o3, it was welcomed as a good popular introduction to the Rome created during the reign of Pope Julian II...
...New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons...
...The much touted "doc-trine," however, seems in all verity to be one of those more or less subtle Hegelian conjectures which various Italian literati have tried to substitute for pragmatism...
...The advances in this science during the last few years have been so numerous, so many-sided, and yet so specialized that the general public is utterly confused...
...On the contrary, to the thoughtful student the story, so often sad and pitiful, of the endeavors of humanity to approach God is a convincing argument that if there exists a God Who loves man He must have given, sometime, somewhere, a revelation, since without such re*relation poor humanity, unaided and unprotected, but gropes in blinding darkness and often ends in disaster...
...New York: The Viking Press...
...Rome and the Renaissance, translated [rom the French o[ Julian Klaczko by John Dermic...
...The Gamekeeper" was a young woman who recog- nized in Mrs...
...RM to...
...There are too many Henries in the field: structural- ists, functionalists, behaviorists and Freudians, each ballyhoo- ing for his particular school and, too often, neglecting or even deriding the achievements of other schools...
...The method employed was unique, but what is said about it will interest all who take the problem of writing seriously...
...These California tales have in them the repetition of de- scriptive phrases that children need and want...
...THE second volume of a very serviceable translation of Dr...
...John Galsworthy as a Dramatic drtist, by R. H. Goats...
...aN HAnLON is a poet Of Nova Scotia, and a contributor of verse to Canadian and American publications...
...In his chapter on the unconscious and the subconscious, the author insists that there is no dream ego distinct from the waking ego, and, while he grants to the Freudians that some dreams may be the disguised realization of suppressed desires, he denies that all dreams are of this character...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...But by far the funniest thing in the book is his blurb on the jacket...
...CH,~I~S ROGER MILLRIt is an instructor in French at Harvard University and an authority on Provengal, Spanish and Italian literature, ver~o~Y:~oZA~!~ezI-ILaR~rNco~tr:a.~m~r~bo~ffOda~c~e~s foo~UPal tr~l~ lf~d~ii, e rCaa tt h~:t ~thi: magazines...
...The result is a certain chilly factitiousness which always characterizes the climate of literature in which the cerebrum has been busier than the heart...
...When the subject is one of such universal interest, the discussion becomes almost necessarily one in which a great number of average readers can eagerly participate...
...No-where has the surging impetus of his poesy, bridled to a more majestic rhythm, been more finely expressed than in his won- derful evocation of the spiritual meaning of that greatest of Gothic cathedrals, in the "Notre-Dame" of his Emanx et Camres...
...translated from the fifth French edition by Rev-erend 8. •. Raemers...
...William Helburn, Inc...
...Maidel Turner as Mrs...
...If you are old and cynical and crabbed, by all means do not bother to read this review and be sure to shut your eyes when next you visit your booksellers, lest you see there a book with a gay jacket, on which there is a picture of an Absent-Minded Tailor Named Stitch Who Lived in the Kingdom of Ripe and Dry Apricots sound asleep under a Joshua tree...
...E. MEm~Xzs~ Root is apoet and instructor m modem hterature an Earl- ham College, Richmond~ Indiana...
...The amount of this splendid material is so large, so varied in character, that we must revise our opinions regarding the supine character of the later Mexican, and we may ask ourselves what has become of the spirit that could erect such a civilization, plant itself so squarely upon the soil of the new world, only to find itself stripped naked under the hands of brigands and become the sport and scorn of the rest of the civilized world...
...The psychology of the affections is in a very backward state owing to the peculiar difficulty of describing them, since words express ideas and not feelings...
...Though much has been discovered and set forth during the years since 19o3, the value of a popular treatise like this is not greatly affected...
...BOOKS Elements of Experimental Psychology, by Reverend J. De La Vaissi~re...
...I T is rare that American printers and publishers produce for our public so fine a piece of bookmaking as the setting for Miss Singleton's interesting discussion of topics connected with the old china, porcelains, potteries, glasses, brasses, and furni-ture of the collectors...
...they do revive, as a matter of fact, in the same measure as this tendency to revive unites with the tendencies corresponding to present states of consciousness...
...For vividness, breadth and force in presenting the story, conceived in the spirit of the title as a tragic one on the whole, Reade approaches genius...
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...Nor, at bottom, is he a decadent, or "flower of evil...
...by Everett Dean Martin...
...Instead, they have lavishly provided excellent illustrations--fifty-two in all--and have provided a format worthy of the best traditions of the Knickerbocker Press...
...It was arranged in the American version from the Studies of Mr...
...and while popular usage has conferred on it the meaning of "crude" or "uncultured," the scientist ought to be on his guard to employ it only in the original and strict sense...
...Few playwrights reveal such skill in intensifying irony...
...Beginning with Saint Thomas Aquinas and continuing through the welter of schola~- tic debating to the end of the seventeenth century, the treatment is necessarily condensed but manifests admirable qualities of clarity and perspective...
...The Meaning o[ a Liberal Education...
...A DMITTEDLY this is an age when popular outlines of science are widely sought after and even diligently read...
...For this achievement he deserves praise...
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...Proceeding to human psychology, he then takes up the various types of sensation...
...Another defect observable in much of the present-day theoriz- ing that passes among the half-educated for science, is a penchant (I had almost said passion) for reducing the most complex of phenomena to a single cause...
...Miss Singleton explains in her preface that she has omitted Sandwich glass and hooked rugs from her considera- tion, as in spite of their present vogue they cannot possibly be classed with beautiful objects de luxe...
...This and his gift for the trenchant phrase is well brought out in Mr...
...Thus his use of the term "inspiration" would not meet the approval of a trained theologian...
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...In the critical portions of his book, however, Mr...
...Here the most interesting points are that there is no specific pain sense and no specific time sense while distance seems to be inferred rather than directly observed...
...The best humor feigns a certain direct na'/vet6 and an unawareness of the audience at which it is directed...
...If the word means anything it must mean first in order of time...
...Louis: B. Herder Book Company...
...I 75 readable par the author presents Theophile Gautier in his natural ambient--the literary and social Paris of Louis-Philippe and the Second Empire--using a style aneedotic, journalistic and facile, not out of keeping with the more journalistic phases of Gautier's own writing...
...There has been much learned controversy of late about the advisability of eliminating fairy tales from children's lives...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...Robinson has fallen into a number of inaccuracies some of which are serious...
...ROONRY is a new contributor to The Commonweal...
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...that will awaken the pride of the more conservative student of Mexican affairs...
...T HE author has endeavored to give what he calls "an outllne introductmn to a large subject, and has, to a considerable extent, succeeded...
...The display is, indeed, a revelation of splendors that will arouse the enthusiasm of any artist...
...The heart of the child is reached easily through its imagination...
...It is pleasant to admit that this prejudtce does not receive confirmation...
...The basic point of view defended by the book is made very simple by the total effect of the separate articles, which all reveal the "wonders" of the universe, and leave the reader to deduce again and again the condusion dearly stated at the begin- ning...
...Another arresting section is devoted to Latin neo-Platonism--a curious Germanic development of which Master Eckhart was the most illustrious representative...
...He also points out the dangers in the psychoanalytic method employed and advocated by Freud...
...Life in the abstract is, we are asked to note, a totally different thing from life in the concrete...
...Johnson's injunction to survey mankind "with extended view...
...B EING funny as a profession is dangerous...
...New York...
...Not only is he less likely to be taken in by the exaggerations of a Watson or a Freud, but he will be aware that experimental psychology is not the whole of psy- chology and that rational psychology remains over, which, even as a branch of philosophy, is too frequently ignored by non-Catholic psychologists...
...They desire that the work shall appeal to and be given to young people, but have carefully avoided making it a juvenile...
...M R MARTIN'S definition of education conforms very well with most effective current criticism of educational aims and methods...
...Stevenson a woman of poise and excellent sense...
...And he also mentions what, alas, is but in a measure too true: "It is variety that Gautier lacks, and it is also depth and a profound knowledge of character...
...It is expected that other volumes of the same sort can be added yearly, so that the reader will gradually acquire a complete panorama of natural science and of man's achievement in the exploration and classification of God's world...
...A special word of commendation should be given to Lloyd Neal for his very effective playing of the enthusiastic father, and Ben Johnson was perfectly cast in his rSle of Judge Wilson...
...With delightful irony the writer says that, "We sometimes hear eulogies of the 'grit' of successful peoples...
...Lon-don: 14...
...the criticism of art or culture involved is fair and reasonable...
...Martin's book, which---one observes with some regret--would be considerably more effective if it were considerably less lengthy...
...Here I consider that he has not entirely succeeded simply because he attempted an impossible task...
...A neglect of this has led to a vast deal of muddled thinking...
...The volume is adorned with more than four hundred illustrations and is handsomely printed...
...Coats might have made his book more complete had he availed himself of the suggestive discoveries published in I9X7, by Walter H. R. Trumbauer: Gerhart Hauptmann and John Galsw orthy: A Parallel...
...We think the publishers have wisely refrained from altering the text, even though some of the works quoted in the footnotes seem a little antique...
...I F you be not one of those grown-ups who have lost the heart of childhood, you will read with delight these Cali- fornia Fairy Tales to which Ireland and Spain, America and the Never-Never-Land of fairies have made offerings...
...The prospective voyager to Rome might well seek here a foretaste of what he is to enjoy...
...some modern historians interpret history solely by economics ; some classicists trace Greek civilization exclusively to Crete...
...After a brief introduction, the author begins the work proper with a short discussion of animal psychology giving as an established conclusion that all animals are endowed with sentient life and--though this is much less well establishedwthat none is endowed with intelligence...
...DONALD ATTWATER, editor of the Benedictine quarterly, Pax, is a general contributor to American and English reviews...
...She cannot allege the same excuse for her omission of all reference to the Scandi-navian ceramics of Denmark and Sweden which certainly have a distinguished history as well as a permanent art beauty not deserving of her neglect...
...Wells's visions of a future godlike race...
...One must confess to having approached Sir Leo Chiozza Money's book with a certain prejudice caused by its title...
...Palache's study is that it makes us sense the honest, fundamentally normal child--often a naughty one-- Gautier was at heart...
...FgANCIS A. LITZ...
...Perhaps there are not so many such Catholics as there might be...
...The very same story in the hands of, say, Belloc or Chesterton, would yield an almost diametrically opposite couclusion--and, equally, a tract on the side of Christian theism, perhaps, but the difference should make us look to our first principles...
...Reinach and Oskar Fleischer, and made an impressive feature of the Worcester and Philadelphia presentations of Holy Cross College...
...On the other hand, there are passages here and there which the present reviewer would fain see amended...
...his work is beautifully done and worthy of a noble subject...
...Few of the works offered, however, have frankly adopted a theistic point of view, or have recognized the "buried intelligence" that is everywhere revealed to the student of nature...
...That master of the finished miniature flings his "rose-colored waistcoat" to the parterre breeze of the first night of Hugo's Ernani, February 25, 183o, as the oriflamme of the romantic movement (if an oriflamme in waistcoat shape may be flung to the airs, meta- phorically speaking, from aught but a clothes-pole) and there- after he moves as a witty, humanly sympathetic figure through the author's book...
...In these, the differences between Catholic and Protestant teachlng are fundamental and cannot be treated as minor...
...And then you will no longer be able to keep yourself old and cynical and crabbed...
...Perhaps, too, he allows his admiration so much play that he fails to dwell sufficiently upon the limitations of Gals- worthy's art and characters, discussed, for instance, in such helpful studies as Sheila Kaye-Smith, W. L. Courtney, and others have made...
...Little by way of criticism does he say that has not already been said, although there is not a single acknowledgment of indebtedness to others...
...The Martyrdom of Man...
...Each in His Own Way, and Two Other Plays, by Luigi Pirandello...
...It was the Parados adapted from the Hymn to Apollo, discovered at Delphi in I893 by the French Archaeological School...
...Winnowed Wisdom, by Stephen Leacock...
...translated [rum the Italian by Arthur Livingston...
...Discussions of the intellectual and voli- tional activities follow...
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...EDWIN RYAN...
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...The English author has given us a pains- taking study of world population supported by the most accurate statistics available, and has kept it highly readable...
...De Wulf's panorama of mediaeval philosophy is...
...And if such falling away be possible to a single human group it is possible to the entire race, whence it follows that the "primitive" condition of humanity may have been (though I by no means assert that it was) one of civilization--itself a concept not at all easy to define...
...I trot, I trot, I trot...
...New York: Oxford University Press...
...p IERHAPS the best of the plays reprinted in this volume is Naked, a sombrely ironical drama which has been greatly admired in all the theatres of Europe...
...He has collected what he considers to be the funniest of these and issued them as The Life and Times of Martha Hepplethwaite...
...M. Klaczko's book should, therefore, find a large audience...
...New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...
...For instance, the treatment of caste does not, in my opinion, sufficiently clarify the distinction between caste and rank or social position, ideas with which it is frequently confounded by Occidentals...
...It is almost a species of credo, undogmatic yet devout...
...and so far as we are aware no Christian publisher has entered the field...
...But Pirandello does not seem to have considered this aspect of the matter: at least he does not visualize it in his plays...
...Hobbies are glorious things that need the careful direction that Miss Singleton provides, for some-thing more is necessary to create correct appreciation of these things than frequentation of auction rooms, wkich constitutes the educational course of most of our devotees of virtu...
...He is the author of Father Tabb: A Study of HisLife and Works...
...Norton and Company...
...third, the law of the transitoriness of instincts---"Many instincts ripen at a certain age and then fade away...
...In the preparation of such a work, a Catholic writer has per- haps certain advantages...
...The cathedral of Mexico City has long been the admiration of travelers, and several of the episcopal sees of cities that have fallen out of the general line of travel can equal it in design and ornamentation...
...For all the verbal disrespect which the flamboyant romanticist of his day displayed, he himself betrays his underlying religious feeling in various of his poems...
...Wunder im Weltall therefore fills a decided need...
...it is also true, Pirandello contends, in the ideal sense...
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...New York: Boni and Liveriqht...
...With the surface brilliance of Mr...
...In a collection of 426 photogravures he carries us through the story of Mexico from the days of the Ineas, through the pioneer missionary times, down to structural history of more recent days...
...Was it climate or race or religion that undermined these firm foundations and left them, as they are today, like the gaping pleasure-houses of the Iran emperors which as "They say, the lion and the lizard keep" ? We thank Mr...
...PAUL CROWLEY...
...Martin has written a personal and provocative book...
...J...
...Of course the concern with "other-worldliness" being ruled out of consid-eration, the attempt to be constructive resolves itself into an attempt to formulate a generally acceptable and profitable state- ment of "humanism...
...But we have no desire to pick flaws in work that is on the whole so admirable...
...Meanwhile the plain man has wished in vain for a text-book covering the whole fidd, to which he could refer in time of need as one refers to a modern text in physics, chemistry, or biology...
...On the other hand, a chapter dealing with propaganda seems so interesting and informative that one should have enjoyed seeing it go on...
...JOSEPHINE EMERY has been a supervisor of art in the public schools of New Hampshire...
...there is an attractively tolerant though unfavorable chapter on the alleged phenomena of telepathy and spiritualism...
...whereas the tribe under observation may have arrived at its "primitive" condition only after centuries of deterioration from a lofty civilization...
...States, and the author of Drums of Defeat...
...second, the law of convergence of tenden-cies--"Where the same class of objects awakens contrary in- stinctive impulses, the impulse first followed toward a given individual of the class is apt to keep him from ever awakening the opposite impulse in us...
...New Yo~k: Dodd, Mead and Company...
...fourth, the law of the survival of instincts---"If, during the time of an instinct's vivacity, objects adequate to arouse it are met with, a habit of acting on them is formed, which remains when the original instinct has passed away...
...New York: Charles 8cribner's 8ons...
...The authors, Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson have given William Janney a r61e in the title part of Tommy that he handles with great cleverness and art: his impersonation of the generous small-town boy whose love affair is retarded by the overweening enthusiasm of a would-be father- and mother-in- law, is one of the recent features of our theatrical season...
...The Li[e and Times of Martha Hepplethwaite, by Frank Sullivan...
...the fact is that, in the coal age, at least amongst the white peoples, the chief grit that counts is coal grit...
...There is, however, a wide difference as to object and method...
...PAUL CROWL~Y is an American eritle and reviewer for current periodieals...
...The right kind of fairy tale through its im- aginative appeal can do much to lead the child's heart aright...
...Martha, his acrobatic stenographer, is well accounted for, but the book is not all hers...
...fifth, the law of the inhibition of tendencies--"Befor~ the period of caducity, an instinctive tendency is neutralized only by unit- ing with the opposite tendency...
...Volume H. New York: Longmans, Green and Company...
...Beginning with Proto-Religion, a topic which is necessarily in Iarge part hypothetical, he treats in succession of all the forms of religion from animism to Christianity...
...This is true in the literary sense...
...Child psychologists are so busied with the mind of childhood that they forget the far more important element, the heart of childhood...
...The Commonweal requests its subscribers to communicate any changes o[ address two weeks in advance, to ensure the receipt o[ all issues...
...With amazing regularity he turns out for The New York World humorous features that manage to be funny enough to put New Yorkers in a good mood over their morning coffee...
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...One merit of Mr...
...William Winwood Reade designed his work as an introduction to the history of mankind somewhat on the lines of H. G. WeUs's Outline of History, and toward the end he allowed himself some day-dreaming about a better humanity very much in the manner of Mr...
...Or, if you met a Prince with a magic rain-cloud and you saw him nonchalantly gather it back into his pocket after sending it out to give a much-needed rain, would you not think for a moment of the Prince Whose hands are over and under the earth and Who takes such good care of us all...
...Atlee B. Ayres has given us in his handsome volume of illustrations just the document we need in the present crisis of Mexican affairs to prove the high attainments of that nation, the vast projections of its founders, and the inherent civilization and culture of periods in its history that have all too easily been scorned by our northern critics...
...Her discussions are for the main part directed to a proper appreciation of the various French, English and American ceramics, glassware, furniture and tex-tiles that are most frequently on sale in our art rooms...
...But I have an apple round, And strange flowers I have found...
...It was high time that it should be translated and thanks are due the translator as well as the author, despite the fact that a few errors have crept in, such as the amusing statement on page too in regard to Goltz's famous dog whose brain had been removed, that "he had a normal gait" immediately followed by "he had lost all ability to move his fore legs...
...barring a few faults that seem to be misprints, as attractive a scholarly book as we have seen recently...
...The low price is also a tribute to the publishers...
...Yet the book remains a controversial tract for its author's particular variety of pantheism--he was rather inaccurately branded as an atheist by his contemporaries...
...Mexican Architecture: Domestic, Civil and Ecclesiastical, by ,4tlee B. ~4yres...
...I T has always seemed unsatisfactory, even with the help of graphic style, to attempt a word-representation of land- scape, painting or architecture, just as it seems impossible to convey the significance of musical compositions without a pic- ture of the objects or a rendition of the music...
...On the whole, the book is well done and Catholics interested in comparative religion may well add it to their libraries...
...SrSTER M. ELEArZORR, a member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, is the author of The Literary Essay...
...Thus psychoanalysts reduce all human activity to sex...
...Pure sensation, as contra~ted with perception, never occurs in adult life...
...Robinson, while not fol- lowing exactly this line of thought, suggests it, and careful students of the history of religion will do well to follow his example and avoid the implication that the cruder or simpler religious cults are necessarily the older...
...By trying to do so Dr...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...An explorer discovers a tribe of low cultural state and at once writes of them as "primitive," assuming that such lack of the finer things of life was the first (or primitive) condition of men in general...
...For the most part it is written in that tone of awesome reverence which the humble associates of a great man invariably adopt when writing of him...
...M. KENNV, JR., is a reviewer of fiction for the magazines...
...Someone discovers what he takes to be, and quite possibly is, a cause and forthwith proceeds to present it to the world as the cause, ignoring other causes at least equally important...
...Stephen Leacock, whether from the fact that he has produced many other books of the same type or whether his dignified position as professor of economics at McGill University is at last beginning to oppress him, seems, somehow, less funny in Winnowed Wisdom than heretofore...
...4.50...
...Entire justice is done to Gautier's prei~minent command of the imagery of language and that transcendent literary power which is the lambent inner flabne of all he wrote...
...R. L. 8. and His 8ine Qua Non, by "'The Gamekeeper...
...An Outline Introduction to the History of Religions, by Theodore H. Robinson...
...Hecuba I N the performance of Euripides's Hecuba at Holy Cross College, there was some music of a very remarkable character arranged for modem use by Joseph B. O'Drain and J. P. Marshall...
...SOME detailed information concerning the always popular Stevenson make this book relatively valuable...
...A COMPLETE manual of experimental psychology has been much needed in America...
...The organization of images seems to follow two opposed orders, one automatic and incoherent as in dreams, the other coherent and partially voluntary as in the work of scholars and artists...
...He does it, moreover, with a direct prac- tical object in view--that of calling attention to the relative position of the white races in the human family and of the need of a change of policy, understood in its widest sense, on their part if they are to retain their present status of world supremacy...
...There is much interesting subsidiary comment in Mr...
...Surely there must be many readers of German in this country who would enjoy the book...
...It is a highly commendable enterprise, and beyond that a most interesting one...
...and the Troubadours of Christ, FREnERICK H. MARTENS is a critic of music, and the author of 1001 Nights of Opera...
...GEOaGE D. MEADOWS is an English critic, residing in the United States...
...These California tales are the right kind of fairy tales...
...This being so, one wonders how it happened that the author, who speaks of Brieux and Ibsen, failed to compare the English- man with Hauptmann, whom he resembles in many respects...
...Found engraved in some eighty bars of music on slabs of marble dating from the third century before Christ, it was evidently a prize-winning composition in some competition in honor of Apollo...
...T HESE two volumes, the first originally published over half a century ago, the latter bearing the date 1925 on the title page, both attempt the fulfilment of Dr...
...H"under im HZeltall, edited by Paul 8iebertz...
...Our dreams are the prey of forces which attack from in the midst of outer reality...
...Dwight Frye, Robert McWade, Catherine Doucet, and the charming Linda Watkins all play up to this nonsense admirably, with Frederic March sustaining the r61e of the heroic Chard...
...There is, moreover, a steady refusal to be victimized by ready-made slogans and the shibboleths of demagogues...
...EDwIrr R~'AN is a member of the faculty" of the Catholic University...
...An attitude so sane on a fundamental point tends to intensify the reader's confidence...
...It is scarcely necessary to add that Arthur Livingston's translation is eminently readable...
...These, however, are details...
...MARY M...
...His book as a whole, in fact, is valuable chiefly because it offers an effective synthesis of sound contemporary opinion about a great contemporary problem...
...Lou~s GrNsaF_.RO is a frequent oontribtttor of poetry to Amerzcan publications...
...Again: It is not true that "the Roman Catholic service is always read in Latin," for the Ruthenians (who are undoubted Roman Catholics) do not use Latin in their liturgy, and the Roman rite itself is said in Slavonic in some places on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, and sometimes at Rome in Greek...
...2.50...
...hence it were better to consider Catholicism separately and not as one of various "forms" of Christianity...
...The arrangement is artistic and easily followed...
...The worst fate that could befall a humorous writer is to be discovered by the intelligentsia...
...that will cause some embarrassment to the facile observer from the United States...
...by Esther Singleton...
...The editor explains, in an attractive introduction, that the book is the result of a wide-spread interest in scientific knowledge and also of the theoretical misapplications that are often made of such knowledge...
...At any rate, Father De La Vaissi~re's work, clearly organized, clearly written, accurate, and thorough, is exactly fitted to fill the present need...
...He had that altogether pagan appreciation of loveliness in the abstract which characterized James Hunecker, and purblind American readers who snigger at his Mademoiselle de Maupin, lose its one and only claim to atten- tion, the exquisite mastery of style which does not succeed in m achiev/ng the impossiMe feat of painting the intangible with a brush dipped in every tint of grossness...
...Perhaps the most interesting section is that devoted to Duns Scotus and incorporating considerable new material...
...In a discussion of the Weber and Fechner law of stimulus and response, he shows that this law is no longer deemed capable of precise mathematical formulation and indeed makes the generalization that "measuring counts for very little today in psychology...
...If you prefer a model more satisfactory to you personally than Thomas Huxley, you will do well to look elsewhere for enlightenment...
...Tommy I T is certainly a pleasure to encounter on the New York stage an American comedy so clear and flawless in its character, so humorous and human in its action, so adaptable to a dean taste for honest things and honest people...
...Leacock, who has been on occasions genuinely funny, is often irritating with his sly winks and evi- dent nudges directed too familiarly at the reader...
...Here the five experimental laws of tendency are simply invaluable for the educator: first, the law of the in- dividualization of instincts--"When objects of a certain clas9 elicit from an animal a certain sort of reaction, it often happens that the animal becomes partial to the first specimen of the class on which it has reacted, and will not afterward react on any other specimen...
...Sir Leo is, for an Englishman, unusually sanguine about the future of the United States and quite optimistic as to the outcome of the "melting-pot" process, which will, he thinks, "be consum-mated in a mixed people of supreme gifts, which will have been fed by enterprising members of every race in the world...
...Indeed, one may go much further and heartily approve much of what is here set down, as evidencing a eareful scientific approach to a subject peculiarly apt to mislead the unwary...
...Confronted with these vast scenes of cathedrals, monasteries and private dwellings, built in the finest proportions, decorated with the most exquisite ornamentation of the Spanish renaissance, he will look about him in vain for anything in his own civilization to compare with them...
...Gali[ornia Fairy Tales, by Monice 8hannoa...
...We have heard so much about older Mexican civilization, its splendors and barbarities, that we can now welcome a proper pictorial display of its achievements in architecture...
...and the volume ends with a chapter on individual character and one on group psychology...
...The volume, furthermore, presents a fine series of illustrative bits of bric-a-brac and furniture...
...It puts the Mexican question in a light displaying truths too long over~ looked in the partisan and sectarian discussions of Mexico...
...The book has numerous fine qualities...
...And the assertion that "there is such a thing as a moral sense" is a Iittle too positive, considering that many ethiclsts and theologians maintain that what is called "the moral sense" or conscience is in reality a judgment, i.e., an act of the intellect, and differs from other judgments, not in its nature, but only in its object...
...ERNEST SUTHERLANV B^TES~ formerly professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon, is a water on educational and literary subjects...
...and A Modern Book of Catholic Verse...
...The Collecting o[ Antiques...
Vol. 5 • January 1927 • No. 12
