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Shuster, George N. & Farley, Ambrose & Crowley, Paul & Gill, Roderick & Walsh, Thomas & Hayes, Carlton J. H. & Kenny, John M. Jr.
497 BOOKS Verses New and Old, by John Galsworthy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50. White Music, by Arthur Truman Merrill. New York: Harold Final. $1.50. Hours in Arcady, by Charles...
...that the "religion of progress" will not do...
...INSIDE the English-speaking world, Baron von Hugel was the antithesis of Hegel and, to some extent at least, the complement of Cardinal Newman...
...Its content proves to be amiable verse of a light character...
...Teresa Brayton's The Flame of Ireland ought to have a large sale, if only for its quiet humor and humanity...
...New York: Harold Vinal...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...all men adopted uniforms—the shorn heads, the severe trousers, the dull blacks and tans and navy-blues of a world grown wildly chaotic in thought and strictly conventional in dress...
...And still they come, they flock, they flash—the poets, the poets—more poets...
...and that some form of pragmatic sanction must be agreed upon as the final guarantor of the validity of our intellectual effort...
...New York: Benziger Brothers...
...John M. Kenny, Jr...
...Someone should do it forthwith...
...Dark of the Moon, by Sara Teasdale...
...Saint Teresa and the sons of Assisi took over the earthly challenges and serenades, and from cloister to cloister a gallant joust and feast of song was sent to God and Mary and the saints...
...The early French as well as the early Irish achieved a certain distinction in the filthy style that is well borne out in what W. B. Yeats calls a "vital, extravagant, immoral, preposterous poem...
...New York: Boni and Liveright...
...Paul Crowley...
...But some of them reach the fishmongers and must be trimmed and cut for the market...
...Essays and Addresses on the Philosophy of Religion: Second Series, by Baron Friedrich von Hiigel...
...A professor in the University of ClermontFerrand, he has made frequent visits to the United States and has had access to and understanding of a vast mass of literary and historical documents on both sides of the Atlantic...
...New York: Harold Vinal...
...For these Revolutions did far more than to make the United States politically independent of England and to change rulers in France...
...New York: TH Macmillan Company, $1.50...
...Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company...
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...Dust and Spray are not very solid particles and the volume which Harold Leland Chaffey produces under this title is not altogether misnamed...
...The texture of her poetry is solid and the trite word of promise may be sincerely whispered here...
...What of the mental poise, what of the broad outlook, what of the understanding, what of the wisdom to control and use to good purpose the accelerating speed, the growing power, the increasing wealth of our time...
...She can't endure, but she has enough desperate courage for a regiment...
...There was nothing of glamour about Myra, and to take a wealth of what appears at first to be trivial detail, and weave it into the pattern of a perplexed soul of a woman, is no mean achievement...
...It should be read by everyone who can read French...
...with French contributions to the American Revolution...
...It is hardly conceivable that the story of our own modern era could be what it has been without the achievements of the American and French Revolutions and without the intellectual interrelations of Frenchmen and Americans in the eighteenth century...
...But it seems rather ridiculous that this man who is at times the very sublimity of negation and is always the gentle, loving husband, should be a force of destruction to the turbulent Myra...
...Wind-Tossed Leaves is caballistic in some of its features, scholarly in others, and not too poetical "for a' that...
...It was his fate to deal, as a religious philosopher, with the ideas of God and the Church, of religion and religious history, which various modern thinkers developed from Hegelian beginnings, which in turn had their origin in Spinoza...
...NORLIN, president of the University of Nebraska, is a thoughtful and sometimes a stimulating essayist...
...Reflective Twilights, by Carolyn Ruth Doran...
...New York: Harold Vinal...
...Hours in Arcady, by Charles Richard Williams...
...After which it would be dangerous to express a further remark, except to say that there is not a rhyme in the whole volume...
...In Silhouettes Against the Sun, Arthur Crew Inman anticipated his critics...
...Silhouettes Against the Sun, by Arthur Crew Inman...
...Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company...
...The Land of the Sky-Blue Water, by Nelle Richmond Eberhart...
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...It is a good human document for those who have lost their gusto for the artistic inspirations of literature...
...Herb Woman, by Eleanor C. Koenig...
...Convent Echoes bears a foreword from Kathleen Norris, who tells us that this is "not polished poetry, here is none of Francis Thompson's mystic profundity, none of Mrs...
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...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...I write of these United States...
...Beyond that it is, perhaps, just as well to admit that his study of theology did not profit from his status as a layman...
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...Therein lies the story of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
...As a document of human degradations and vices it may prove of interest to scholars with a nose...
...The Midnight Court, and The Adventures of a Luckless Fellow, translated from the Gaelic by Percy Arland Ussher...
...It is minstrelsy in a very modern sense: a boyish snatch of song, a run of scales over the piano or harp, a shadowy tale in the twilight of the hearth or the hidden corners after the feast...
...Convent Echoes, by Sister M. Paraclita...
...A small garland of exotic, somewhat chaotic songs, full of color and flashes in the Bakst manner, make up Arthur Truman Merrill's White Music...
...We have Miss Cather's word for it that the mortal enemy of the title is Oswald, Myra's husband...
...someone taps it at another point and gives us the dynamo...
...To the study and presentation of these intellectual interrelations Professor Fay has brought a splendid personal equipment, as rich as it is rare, and all the lucidity of the best French prose...
...someone in like manner gives us the gas engine or the airplane...
...And yet the reason is probably just the intellectual terrain upon which he took his stand—a terrain roughened by academic phraseology and philosophic dicta, upon which it was impossible to move unless one exercised the greatest care...
...If she was crushed by the forces of fate, then surely she was the mill of the gods, chosen to grind exceedingly fine the bittersweet of life for her unconscious victim, her husband...
...In Dark of the Moon, the poet Sara Teasdale bears out the quality that caused Jessie Rittenhouse to denominate her "the Elizabethan of today...
...As mysticism becomes a subject more widely discussed, it will become necessary to consult Von Hiigel again and again...
...THE MIDNIGHT COURT of Brian Merriman, an eighteenth-century Gael of Clare, is certainly Rabelaisian in many of its features, as its publishers take care to inform us...
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...Her Effigy of a Nun is remarkably fine and fails only in a full grasp of the spirituality of the cloister: it is an analysis that fails to analyze itself...
...George N. Shuster...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...The Baron never considered himself an apologist...
...In age we lose everything—even the power to love...
...I shall not attempt to describe the contents of the book...
...Wind-Tossed Leaves, by Victor Zorin...
...His own faith gave every shred of his personal confession a genuine ring, and sometimes almost a touch of rapture...
...Mary Sinton Leitch produces a little sheaf of modest singing in The Unrisen Morrow—a prophetic title to describe her gifts as a poet...
...Many 499 have shared the delightful experiences of the author, and the tourist bureaus are still advertising new jaunts with countless romantic opportunities...
...It has remained for a French scholar, Professor Bernard Fay, to discover and trace the essentially intellectual interrelations of France and America at the dawn of a new era...
...No doubt Von Hiigel was to some extent sympathetic with currents which later developed into modernism...
...MRS...
...Ignis Ardens is full of ambitious aspirations, of the philosophy of a long and active life and the autumnal retrospections that make up so large a part of the corpus poeticarum...
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...The poet's mood is expansive and no quotation could show the general holy uplift of his book...
...Lady of Dreams, by Virgil McGovern...
...The difference lies in the fact that there has been stored up for us by scholars and scientists from generation to generation an immense reservoir of knowledge...
...The second poem, The Adventures of a Luckless Fellow, from the Gaelic of Denis Macnamara, is a poem of kindred sort but of inferior spirit and originality...
...The Land of the Sky-Blue Water contains an introduction on the writing of song lyrics that ought to prove of value to many of our composers of songs and the text that accompanies them...
...New York: Harold Vinal...
...It is a great book...
...It is cheap fun and there are very many cheap people in the audience...
...Kate L. Dickinson reveals herself in Flesh and Spirit as a poet touched with the mystical aura that suggests Emily Dickinson more than Louise Imogen Guiney...
...New York: Harold Vinal...
...She has a dramatic sense rare among our minor poets...
...Suffice it here to paraphrase, in English, its concluding summary: "To see in the intimacy of France and the United States only a democratic labor is too narrow a view...
...Nevertheless, it is well that many should read the queer but illuminating treatment of The Difficulties and Dangers of Nationality, or even the complex essay, On Certain Needs of Religion...
...It is a shame that this great book has not yet been translated into English...
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...Integrity in Education, and Other Papers, by George Norlin...
...As usual, supreme technical excellence is evident in his work...
...It is the poetical residuum of years of editorial work on the New York World and the Indianapolis News, and the note of the periodical sifts through the verse, bidding all starled editors and newspaper critics to bethink them of their own fate...
...She awakened a thousand contradictory desires, and infinitely enriched American civilization...
...However well prepared he may have been as a scholar and a Christian, he lacked that indispensable something —a mysterious grace, perhaps, of the priesthood—which crowns ordination and the sacred ministry...
...He could not divine the psychological states of modern minds so subtly and helpfully as Newman was able to...
...Citadels, by Marguerite Wilkinson...
...My Mortal Enemy, by JVilla Cat her...
...Manchester, New Hampshire: The Magnificat Press...
...She is never coldly unpitying in her attitude, and at no time is she sentimental...
...People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know...
...Friar Virgil McGovern of the Minims has joined these hooded lists and gives us a Lady of Dreams, indicated in his lines: "Though a monk locks his body in a solitary cell, His soul soars free among the stars...
...It is a book to tempt the quoter but, alas, the sunset hour is at hand...
...Nor will the good he strove to accomplish die with him...
...Reflective Twilights has aspects of strength and inspiration that call for admiration, even in the consciousness that the moods are somewhat repetitive of greater poets and grander times...
...They substituted individualism and nationalism under the romantic banners of "liberty, equality, and fraternity...
...Byron would have shivered at the shattering points of its so-called wit and undeveloped situations...
...What Newman renders crystal clear, Von Hugel seems to make obscure...
...It is singing well above the average of pious poetry...
...The present collection comprises a number of papers relative to modern educational problems, and a few ventures into the interpretation of Greek thought and culture...
...The uneventful life-story of Myra Henshawe seems scarcely 500 epic in its retelling, but Miss Cather's artistry makes of it a tragedy worth the knowing...
...Enough Rope, by Dorothy Parker...
...Her own warped soul was her chiefest enemy...
...There is much wisdom in Ethnology and the Golden Age, and a refreshing insight in a treatment of Isocrates, entitled That Old Man Eloquent...
...The Book of Robert Southwell, by Christobel M. Hood...
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...It shows a pure rare stream of song, a very charming personality, a highly tuned music that is altogether modern...
...HOOD'S edition of the shorter poems of Father Robert Southwell is a delight...
...Well precisely, Good, sirs...
...Hours in Arcady bear leisure, if not boredom, on their wings...
...The essays and addresses collected in the present volume are not nearly so formidable as his Mystical Element of Religion, but even so they bristle with sentences which must be read as slowly as one scrutinizes a palimpsest...
...To fashion a moving human story from the slender material of Myra's life, was an infinitely more difficult task than any of the author's other portraits of women...
...Oswald's very gentleness and his uncomplaining submission to his lot is enough to arouse the ire of the malignant Myra—but there the blame is more the woman's than her husband's...
...Indeed he may have felt, in all humility and charity, a certain contempt for persons who could so glibly and fluently "defend"—with their eyes closed...
...To live in the thick of this confused complexity is not, as many seem to think, in itself a liberal education...
...The arrangement into cantos, the regularity of its rhythms and rhymes seem satirical of the older poets...
...Her work is clever...
...Faust in Spring, by Angela Marco...
...He has done well to abandon the muse for the more practical lady of prose...
...New York: Alfred A. Knopf...
...Spiritual Songs, by Hugh F, Blunt...
...New York: The author...
...Someone taps this reservoir at one point and we have the steam engine...
...A Catholic intellectual by training and conviction, he has full and sympathetic knowledge of all those intellectual currents which since the eighteenth century have run counter to Catholic philosophy and theology...
...Some of the papers included—notably the first—recall controversies now so nearly buried that they ought not, perhaps, have been exhumed again...
...Dymer is not so amusing: it has the wit of Hamlet played in long trousers...
...Ignis Ardens, by Merle St...
...I Sing the Pioneer, by Arthur Guiterman...
...The book has the melancholy of achieving something that one will never need— a blameless, creditable performance...
...New York: The Franciscana Press...
...But hanged he was, at the conclusion of a period of martyrdom which can now be recalled, as a stave in an old, sad song, at a moment when the Catholic bells of England are ringing out again...
...A SELFISH, grasping old woman, who husband has become her mortal enemy because in old age she cannot forgive him for the harm she did him in youth, is treated by Willa Cather in her latest sketch in a most astounding way...
...Carolyn Ruth Doran does not seem to have lived into her singing and the serious note in her poetry seems to be instructed rather than realized...
...In Spiritual Songs, one discovers rhymes a-plenty, and amid them there is to be found occasionally a cloistral blossom of true religious poetry...
...It isn't bad: it isn't good...
...The following passage is not merely typical, but good enough to deserve quotation: "The great difference between the contemporaries of Sophocles and ourselves lies not in any improvement of mentality...
...Star-Gatherer, by Jamie Sexton Holme...
...And so invention is added to invention, mechanism to mechanism, wheel to wheel, wire to wire, friction to friction, noise to noise, until we have, whether for good or for ill, that vast and intricate machine, that appalling complex which we call our industrial civilization...
...A new era did dawn in the last quarter of the eighteenth century...
...Altogether, her book is one of modest merit...
...As a critic of modern intellectual tendencies, Dr...
...Meynell's tortured involutions [these novelists!] but it is sincere and simple and free, the spontaneous effervesence of a soul that cannot bottle within itself the glory and the beauty of the love and service of God...
...The Monks and the Giants, by John Hookham Frere...
...Other concerns and activities of his may interest us comparatively little...
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...Her religious songs are quite superior to the pieces in which one looks for the immediacy of life...
...But it was the sympathy of one philosopher with another, practised of old by Saint Justin...
...That The Monks and the Giants is a work of sophistication, is amply attested by the professional introduction prepared by R. D. Waller of the University of Manchester, who traces the element of its humor in a study of the Italian romancers, Puld and Boiardo, Teofilo Folengo and their English imitators and translators of Hudicras, Beppo and Don Juan, to be followed in varying currents by Walter Scott, Thackeray, and Barham's Ingoldsby Legends...
...Her introduction offers all the available information in compact, easily readable form, quotes interestingly from valuable letters, and describes the literary making of the poet with more than a little insight...
...Dorothy Parker in her Enough Rope claims a place beside the studio-fire...
...In Ports of Call, one may make the Mediterranean tour with a pleasant poet companion, Lena Whittaker Blakeney...
...In Herb Woman, Eleanor C. Koenig reveals a real talent, authentic and fine, marked with a very definite limitation in its reach...
...Old Edward Fitzgerald was quick to scent the transformation of the poet into the artist and our young Americans abroad seem to be without this prescience...
...Ben Jonson's comment, preserved by Drummond, ought to be noted: "That Southwell was hanged yett so he had written that piece of his The Burning Babe, he would have been content to destroy many of his...
...In Answer: "One critic calls my work 'magnificent,' Another 'sardonic/ another 'strong,' Another 'shoddy.' Eh...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...There is a discretion in her choice, a correctness of expression and a fine temper to her spirit that win admiration from the first glance...
...This large consignment must be promptly delivered and so—John Galsworthy's Verses New and Old warrants the apology in his preparatory note...
...New York: Harold Vinal...
...Norlin's chief recourse is a comparison of Attic poise and mental development with the disjointed heterogeneousness of modern502 ity...
...They inaugurated the almost universal breakdown of what for centuries had been distinctive of western society and civilization—class distinctions, privileged position of landed noblemen and churchmen, corporate con501 duct of industry and trade, state-supported Church, and Church-maintained charity and education...
...Ports of Call, by Lena Whittdker Blakeney...
...Little touches of a very delicate humor show the sanity and security of her gifts...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
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...Dust and Spray, by Harold Leland Chaffey...
...Thenceforth there was a leveling: "gentlemen" were brought down to the grade of men, and men became simply citizens...
...Runes and Cadences, by R. Emmet Kennedy...
...Runes and Cadences is a collection of verse, prose and musical notations made up out of an intimate knowledge of the beauty in the Gaelic fragments of antiquity and presented with a charming nonchalance and a spontaneity of spirit that are very attractive in effect...
...New York: Dodd, Mead and Company...
...Arthur Guiterman succumbs to a newspaper call in I Sing the Pioneer and gives us metrical pictures of personages like Washington, Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, and Fray Juan Padilla, interspersed with delightful little songs that bespeak the real poet that he is...
...Roderick Gill...
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...It would be a rash man, it would certainly be an ignorant man, who would claim for us a superior intelligence, a superior wisdom, or even a superior general knowledge...
...The old troubadours and knights-at-arms found their successors in the cloister...
...A man and woman draw apart from that long embrace and see what they have done to each other...
...The general effect is gouty and asthmatical...
...He is inclined to think we have become a congeries of uneducated specialists...
...Confessedly it is Irish, just as are, at the other extreme, the dreams of Tir-nan-Oge...
...Nelle Richmond Eberhart was associated with Charles Wakefield Cadman, the author of many popular American songs, and her outlining of their experiences with their settings, with publishers, the public, and performers of their lyrics, is of value and interest at the present time...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
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...Ihomas Walsh...
...His conclusions were welded in the forge of an intense Christian faith, but the materials used were modern and abstruse...
...New York: Harold Vinal...
...New York: Harold Vinal...
...It was then that the modern world, as we know it, was fully prefigured in the events of the American and French Revolutions...
...New York: Longmans, Green and Company...
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...By its physical beauty, its diffuse religiosity, its spontaneous liberty, it inspired eager and sensitive minds, like Chateaubriand's, to conceive a modern literature, religious and sentimental, wherein liberty should be the daughter of light, wherein the intoxication of nature should be pious and enlightened, wherein strangeness and dreaming should be in the present and not in a hidden past On the other hand, into America France brought Catholicism, the arts, the theatre, and French refinements...
...the flout of the verses may always be looked for in the last line, where the vicious Charleston kick usually occurs...
...SWIMMING against the tide would hardly describe it, and boating up Niagara seems too tragic an image with which to typify the deluge, the landslide of the poetry of the season...
...It is a gallant attempt to outdo the modern impressionist and shows some aptness for rhythmic effect and some character not altogether realized...
...It is goodness without greatness...
...Thus he speaks of "God, our liberty, and our home...
...He was simply a philosopher desirous of accounting for his convictions and certain that the treasure of his life—religious faith— could alone ransom the world...
...It is the work of a scribe who knew some Latin, enough, it seems, to qualify the full vigor of his Gaelic—or is it borsecker?—delirium...
...He has written the sanest and, on the whole, the most reverent words regarding this tremendous aspect of religion yet stated in English...
...Oxford: Basil Blackwell...
...or with American contributions to the French Revolution...
...Danford Barney contributes a book of well-considered expatriate poems entitled Sardonyx...
...With a firm economy of method, a wholly admirable subtlety, a technique that is none the less sure for being unobtrusively present in the simple, faultless unfolding of her story, the author accomplishes, without seeming effort, the goal of all novelists—the imprisoning of a soul between the covers of a book...
...In Star-Gatherer, one encounters some superior singing and some unaffected poetry of a moderate power...
...but he had a magnificent grasp of accumulated scholarship, of historical fact and philosophic definition, such as the luminous Cardinal did not posse'ss...
...Croix Wright...
...It is strange that a spirit so sacrificial and so pure should have sprung (as our author describes) from stock which had profited by monastic spoliation and had failed to be loyal to the Faith...
...Here and there are vigorous touches that prepare the mind for a scene or action that never transpires...
...Perhaps I can't forgive him for the harm I've done him...
...The selections offered in the present volume—one is grateful for the faithful typography—are all lovely and characteristic...
...The Unrisen Morrow, by Mary Sinton Leitch...
...They say the youngsters like it...
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...That is why the Baron is such difficult reading...
...The world needs poets who will stay poets...
...Bernard Fay: L'Esprit Revolutionnaire en France et attx Etats-Unis a la fin du XVHP Siecle...
...Surely the most swaggering optimist can hardly escape some feeling of misgiving as he becomes aware of the increasing power of the industrial revolution to reduce human life to machinery, to condemn us to see life in fragments and live it in fragments, with no comprehension of the whole, with no integrating vision to give meaning and zest to our isolated tasks...
...Father Southwell's Burning Babe is the poem which all modern readers know, even if they seldom realize the character of the author...
...As a matter of fact, America aroused in Frenchmen the taste for romanticism...
...Paris: Edouard Champion...
...Miss Cather takes Molly Driscoll, petted and adored niece of an Irish immigrant who had become a middle-western town idol after he had made his fortune in convict labor, makes her elope with a German free-thinker, and then, after a glimpse of the couple in New York that should warn the reader of what is about to be expressed, she skips ten years and picks up the thread again in a ramshackle hotel in the West where she puts Myra Henshawe through her paces, finally leaving her to die "alone with her mortal enemy," propped up against a tree and gazing out over the sea...
...Faust in Spring reveals a poetical nonchalance, a mundane cleverness, discovering a charming personality not, in a rigid sense, inspired...
...Her understanding, which she conveys to the reader perfectly, is complete and never falters...
...Note the concluding paragraph : "For indeed dreary and petty, oppressive and imprisoning, is our poor little life, on its surface and apart from God and from His merciful condescensions toward us...
...For the character-study of Myra Henshawe affords the author an excellent opportunity to expound numerous and varied revelations through the medium of this demented old woman—especially so since Miss Cather apologizes for her in the early stages of her infirmity, by saying: "She isn't people...
...The Flame of Ireland—an ardent title that will appeal to many hearts—bears a message of song and sentiment from a poet who has long had an appreciative audience among lovers of Ireland and her lilting songs...
...Father Southwell's gift was genuine, and he extends his hand across the centuries to his modern Jesuit brother poet, Gerard Hopkins...
...Boston: Cornhill Publishing Company...
...Flesh and Spirit, by Kate L. Dickinson...
...Aside from the library-fireside flicker of its rather heterogeneous allusions, its humor seems rather thin and wheezy in these modern airs...
...Carlton J. H. Hayes...
...But we would not know our misery, we would not feel it as such, were there not saints and heroes around us, and Christ our Lord above us, and, encompassing all and penetrating all, God—not a Sufferer, but indeed the Sympathizer, God Joy, and Ocean of Joy, our Home...
...Ambrose Farley...
...Thus spake Myra...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...Sardonyx, by Danford Barney...
...MUCH has been written in English on Franco-American relations during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, but almost exclusively it has dealt with diplomatic, political, economic, or military relations—with the career of Lafayette, Beaumarchais, or Franklin...
...New York: Harold Vinal...
...Baron Friedrich von Hiigel was one of the noblest figures in the modern English Catholic renaissance...
...Prominent in the volume is the well-known lyric from which it takes its title, as well as texts of several other popular melodies...
...The struggle which this singularly candid and sincere layman faced was, therefore, personal in the first instance and representative in the second...
...Like fish in mighty shoals come poets big and little—jumping dikes, cutting nets, flashing and splashing in covers and wrappers that shame the rainbows and aurora borealis, whispering pleading, shouting, threatening, cursing, and even snoring in 498 the very face of the most hardened critic and book-reviewer...
...She's Molly Driscoll, and there never was anybody else like her...
...New York: Harold Vinal...
...There is in Spain a fifteenth-century writer of the same class, with whom closer comparisons might be made were the public more familiar with his work—Juan Ruiz, the Archpriest of Hita, who could fling insults and dirty slurs with a magisterial efficiency, and a barn-yard flavoring, equal to this new Irish slopmonger who is now presented to us, whose work is authentic diatribe, ferociously honest in its rages, and graphically intense in its nude displays...
...Much might be quoted, but I prefer to advise the reader to procure this charming, well-made book for himself...
...Marguerite Wilkinson in her Citadels holds fast to the strong places of poetry...
...Dymer, by Clive Hamilton...
...Such a paper as Suffering and God, perhaps the best in this book, is^ not only an exhaustive consideration of a highly important subject, but also a fervent statement of mystical conviction...
...There is high social quality in R. Emmet Kennedy's work and it will be interesting to see it put into use...
...In his little book there is nothing to commend save a clear statement of rather prosy moods...
...Moon Shadows is a book of good rotarian verse, correct and regular in its sentiments and metres...
...No wonder that the American Historical Association has made Professor Fay the recipient of the first award of the Jusserand Prize for the best history of Franco-American relations and that the prize has recently been presented to Professor Fay in Paris in the presence of the American Ambassador and the French Minister of Public Instruction...
...The Flame of Ireland, by Teresa Brayton...
...Perhaps that's it...
...7/6d...
...Moon Shadows, by Sherman Ripley...
...His book is at once historically sound and inherently interesting...
...There are plenty of Ezra Pounds and Edgar Saltuses: art is too often merely the refuge of dreamless souls...
Vol. 5 • March 1927 • No. 18
