Current Magazines
614 CURRENT MAGAZINES The Irish Statesman (incorporated with the Irish Homestead) one of the best periodicals in Ireland today, is edited by G. W. Russell (A. E.) the poet and agricultural...
...There are also the usual well-edited reports of current events in America, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark...
...What is the cause of this...
...It is true that melancholy idealists have melted like wax in the heat of the industrial noontide, but surely we are justified in the expectation of geniuses for the encouragement, patronage and nursing of our arts, such as created the renaissance in Italy and France...
...The explanation in the material activities of America, where reverie and introspection are discouraged by the facts and dwarfed by the successes of big business, does not altogether satisfy...
...This golden age of American arts and letters seems actually to be at hand...
...The literary quality of the periodical is assured by the high standing in letters of its editor...
...The American Scandinavian Review for March presents a valuable study by E. Dieth, Round the Sagasteads of Iceland, and an equally novel and interesting paper on Ribe, the old cathedral town of Saint Ansgar, the Apostle of the North, founded in 860—a charming relic of the old Catholic past of Denmark...
...and a Monthly History of the Polish Republic...
...Z. Klemensiewicz...
...It presents a weekly statement of the events and tendencies in Irish public affairs that is moderate in tone and generally acceptable by the differing Irish parties...
...E.) the poet and agricultural expert...
...Poland, the excellent monthly magazine devoted to Polish interests in life, trade and culture, presents a March issue of value and interest...
...The editor, Clarence H. Dawson, is to be congratulated...
...There are papers on ski-jumping and the organizations of the Polish Ski Clubs, by Dr...
...The Polish Cotton Industry During December, by J. W. Krauze...
...The issue for February 19 contained an article entitled A Study of American Culture, in which occurs this striking remark: "Ireland with 4,000,000 people has produced a literature at least as important as the United States with 110,000,000 people...
...Polish Potash and American Needs, by P. H. Pearson...
Vol. 5 • April 1927 • No. 22
