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Walsh, James A. & Dawson, E. Forbes & Vernon, Grenville & Hull, Robert R. & Edsall, Richard Linn & Gill, Roderick & Walsh, Thomas & Martens, Frederick H. & Crowley, Paul & Windle, Bertram C. A. & Egan, Joseph M. & Ryan, Kathryn White
BOOKS In China, by Abel Bonnard. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $$.oo. THE author of this interesting book is announced as "winner of the Grand Literary Prize awarded by the...
...There's something rather dashing about his headlong, destroying carelessness...
...Rhodes made great gestures, could behave magnanimously, and his name has not lost its magic in the South Africa of today, but Mrs...
...It is not often that Mr...
...3.00...
...On the successful solution of this problem rests the future of South Africa...
...The mother has still a little of the romantic imagination of her Irish forbears, and her second son, Donald, is a complete throw-back to them...
...The Biblical Institute does not publish a review called De Re Biblica...
...But it is interesting to note that in 1914, these lovers of freedom trekked from the Cape, because the English missionaries deprived them of their Hottentot slaves...
...Among them, the tragedy of the Cape people —offspring of the bondwomen of the old Cape settlers—engages the author's sympathy...
...He can subside into dignity when he likes to tell you of a room in an English home possessing a "smooth wise loveliness," of its "hall with a stupendous fire and acres of paneling and glorious stone cobwebs of windows...
...The writer he admired was Gibbons...
...The baffling problems that beset the young country today are touched upon with such deep insight that the book becomes an absorbing human drama...
...Smith...
...Whatever may have been the fighting equality of the two races which composed the American Expeditionary Force, there can be no two opinions as to their inequality in the art of song...
...translated by J. C. Reville...
...The account of Tchaka, the Zulu chief, surely more an antique Roman than a Zulu...
...3.00...
...Half-Gods, by Murray Sheehan...
...This dished any chance of that...
...He has registered impressions on a variety of subjects—existing monuments, ancient customs, Chinese art, Chinese poetry, temple worship, Confucianism, Mohammedan influence, the Great Wall, village life, Bolshevistic inroads, students, etc...
...An American student would make a distinction, therefore, which seems to have escaped the Englishman's attention...
...and his highly imaginative temperament, genuine humility, and lack of bravery in the contests of love ought to endear him to many readers...
...The Heretic's Defense, by Henry Preserved Smith...
...The Revue Biblique is hardly recognizable as the International Biblical Review...
...it is so...
...He gives graceful tribute, likewise, to Monsignor de Guebriant, then bishop of Canton, present superior-general of the Paris Foreign Mission Society, and to Father Fourquet, who has since become the successor of Bishop de Guebriant in the see of Canton...
...His is merely a personal appeal of a lover of biblical lore eager to point out to others what pleasures and profits await a student of Scripture...
...The Dublin Review is not an Irish publication...
...Morgan writes so tenderly as in The Crystal Dove: "Come, Crystal Dove of light and love, and in me now descend, Bring me the peace which none can move, in which all treasures blend...
...He refers to the clothing of Chinese gentlemen as ''the simplest and most decent dress in the world...
...Father Fillion makes no attempt at full or systematic treatment...
...The Venerable Bede did not die in 755...
...The beginner in Bible study will hardly find a more agreeable companion than the writer of this book, nor one with a more contagious enthusiasm...
...They went to Broadway for their music, contenting themselves with the ready-made rhymes and tunes of the professional song-writers...
...The letters fall into three groups...
...For instance, the Cushing theory that basketmaking preceded pottery has been made certain by discoveries in Arizona...
...there is little splendor and only the tenderness of a rugged nature that sifts through his verse like the wild flowers on a rocky cliff...
...A concluding chapter summarizes Italian history since Victor Emmanuel's death, and there are thirteen excellent illustrations...
...McLaurin has prepared a very intelligent account of the varied regions and of the principal stopping places on the road of the motor-tours that are a highly developed part of the French administration...
...In China is a readable book, written as a simple narrative by one who, though a complete stranger, yet found himself much in sympathy with the inhabitants of the country he was visiting...
...Most, though not all, of the original is presented in the English translation...
...He is, to say the least, an exceptional person...
...The story of the Voortrekkers, the early Dutch settlers, is vividly told...
...The greatest scenes in the present volume are tragic, and so provide that tense and overwhelming drama which has made some reader term Handel-Mazzetti "a literary stormwind...
...A more careful proof-reading would have corrected some unfortunate typographical errors in Greek and in English, the most serious of which makes the one hundred and eighth letter of Saint Jerome describe the journeys of Saint Paul instead of Saint Paula...
...Briggs it is justly said that he had no peer among his fellows...
...While the book reveals a cultural or sentimental admiration for the South, its hero is Lincoln and its conclusion agrees that the outcome of the struggle was fortunate...
...The Relation of Nature to Man in Aboriginal America, by Clark Wissler...
...Yet one must register an exception, and a serious one...
...New York: The Oxford University Press...
...and throughout the book fine understanding of human motivation is blended with ability to discern the striking and the picturesque...
...New York: Boni and Liveright...
...New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons...
...The technical use of the term "traditor" was not inaugurated at the Council of Aix in 313...
...Vogel Wunderlich is a notable addition to that German fiction which blends merriment and eccentricity with serious narrative...
...He was associated in the common cause with Professor Charles Augustus Briggs, teacher of Hebrew and cognate languages in Union Theological Seminary, New York, from 1874 t0 1897...
...nor does it prove that the pottery art was ushered in everywhere by a basket stage and a following stage, in which the basket was coated with mud...
...The writer of this book is alive, observant, comprehending...
...2.SO...
...Without departing from the dicta of Pope Pius IX, the Church, to quote Luigi Sturzo, has "not only not been reduced to dependence on the Italian state, but has emerged from the phase of open hostility with its prestige intact in the religious and in the international and political world...
...Smith never was "dangerous...
...3.50...
...He shows his lack of vision in his inability to recognize that Pope Pius IX was in no sense a politician playing a game for material advantages, but an archpriest proudly doing his duty by that Church whose head he was on earth, in defending rights which he considered inalienable and was sworn to defend...
...It was in the course of these manoeuvres "that they came upon the Kaffirs advancing southward from East Central 667 Africa...
...He is of the sang pur of novelists, and Moliere would not disinherit him...
...y Roderick Gill...
...The whole world of poetry seems to have fallen upon an arid period and our Catholic poets of today hardly equal the Adelaide Procters, Lionel Johnsons, Francis Thompsons, Alice Meynells, or Louise Imogene Guineys who have recently laid down the lyre...
...Compare, for instance, the white soldier's ditty, "I want to go home," with the Negro song on the same theme, "I don't think I'se long for here...
...He evidently approves of the idea of the young Chinese being educated in their own environment...
...Very aptly he compares himself to the chatty, well-informed guides who make Baalbek or the Acropolis interesting to tourists...
...Rhodes, with not less vice in him than virtue, was a big man...
...Grenvtlle Vernon...
...Moreover, not until the General Assembly of 1892 had it been formally defined that the "original autographs" of the Bible were inerrant...
...Thus the book has a twofold significance...
...While most American travelers will very probably elect to begin their African tour at Casablanca and journey through the Atlas Mountains to the northeastern centres, Mr...
...During his visit to South China, the author met the wellknown Pere Robert, who was then procurator-general of the Paris Society for Foreign Missions...
...I was even beginning to lose interest in my musical diary, when we encountered some Negro troops...
...Though he is repulsed by her passion for him, he is sufficiently fired by her encouragement and interest to strike out elsewhere at last, on his own...
...Evan Morgan is typically Welsh in the harsh character of his feeling...
...I do not think you can get a better example of the extent and knowledge of the Chinese soul which can exist in a mind that has lost none of its firm Occidental qualities...
...Brackett...
...When he died, he mingled his dust with the dust of a mountain-top...
...He cannot go back to the life of the kraals that the white man has taken him from...
...Smith himself taught Hebrew and had the chair of Biblical Theology at Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio...
...IT WILL be difficult for the reader who for the first time is made aware of the controversy which was waged in the Presbyterian Church in the 'nineties, to realize what it was all about...
...Smith, in stating that "not all of the discrepancies" in the Bible could "be accounted for" on the ground that they had "come in by transmission," had laid himself open, possibly, to suspicion...
...Make what was stubborn in me mild, fast in my heart encase The sweetness of a little child who would all earth embrace...
...This, in fact, is the conclusion drawn, though, many would say, from a false major premise, and they find substantiation of their opinion in this authoritative book...
...Ambition, interest in books, tolerance, desire for new ideas, appreciation of beauty, are found in him alone of all the community—the rest are as dull as ditch-water...
...Consider his life," says Mrs...
...Das BlutzeugmSj by Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti...
...The section on each of these places is followed by a short historical calendar...
...There were charming-looking people in it with glossy heads and long throats and legs...
...Practically none of them had ever been written down before he took them from the lips of the singers themselves, and it is probable that many of the verses were made up as the singer went along...
...The Life of Captain Alonso de Contreras, translated from the Spanish by Catherine Alison Phillips...
...The Kaffir, of that dark-skinned race whose origin is unknown, was, in those days, also an invader...
...Richard Linnt Edsai.l...
...In the course of the narrative, there are words of warning against the Japanese designs on China...
...McLaurin chose to come from the east to the west...
...Where, then, is he bound for...
...nevertheless, one must remark a very noticeable lack of color and fantasy throughout the narrative, and a rather strange overlooking of the importance of the missionary and archaeological work of the White Fathers in the Tunisian country and the explorations of Carthage...
...But the book is as it is...
...He remarks that missioners, unlike other foreign residents in China, are strongly sympathetic with the character of the Chinese people...
...RM 5. Det Gang zur Liebe, by Emmy Hennings...
...But of paramount urgency is the problem of the Kaffir...
...3.50...
...They are half-castes, despised by Kaffirs and whites...
...The Negro singer is essentially an improviser in the same way as was the minstrel of the middle-ages, and his songs are colored by the emotion of the moment...
...He met Chinese who had lived in France and who, after noting the behavior of its people, had lost their respect for the white races...
...The Saint Cyril of the Catechisms is of Jerusalem, not of Alexandria...
...There is, perhaps, no white man better known, at least along the coast of eastern China, than this active and energetic priest who recently closed more than a quarter of a century of service in China...
...He himself bounds over grammar and colloquialisms, and on one occasion sends his heroine to "a crack hotel...
...He moves on in a splashing hurry...
...In 1867, the first diamond was discovered...
...3.00...
...Das Blutzeugnis is, like its companion volumes in the trilogy, deeply religious in inspiration...
...First, it chronicles "inner adventure" in terms of a sensitive, observant mind...
...The figure of Cecil John Rhodes appears...
...After the diamonds came the gold...
...The blundering campaign of hapchance victories in which Napoleon III sought to emulate his uncle's victories against the same foes, in particular, is graphically described, and the mixed reasons which led the French emperor first to support Victor Emmanuel and later to abandon him are clearly outlined...
...Smith before its High Council and in suspending both from the ministry...
...Briggs and Dr...
...4.00...
...For nothing is more misleading in historical writing than surface motivation...
...Surely there ought to be some readers in the United States for books as good as these...
...Lieutenant Niles has done a work which was well worth doing in jotting down the words and melodies of the songs he heard in our army at the front, even though he has in doing it recorded the unfortunate fact that it was only the Negro soldiers who showed the slightest musical creative gift...
...Secondly, it is a very good panorama of ecclesiastical life in Italy, commenting wisely on many famous shrines and noting, with an eye skilful in the discernment of color, the details of ritual and pageant...
...The paradox is particularly exemplified by the fact that Professor Briggs had formally claimed for reason and the church recognition as sources of authority, and that for this "heresy," among others, he was being formally tried...
...David Hannay, in his introduction to the volume, points out the combination in the character of Contreras of the partisan soldier and the roguish picaro: "the very candor with which this man, who yet valued his reputation after a sort, records how he began by murdering a fellow-schoolboy, how he enlisted and was easily led to desert, how he wandered and adventured in cruises in the Levant and tavern brawls, how he took care to provide for himself by pillaging a prize, speaks for him...
...To my mind, the work compares favorably with books which established the writer's reputation throughout the world prior to the great war...
...Yet he has made his book no more than a blatant triviality...
...It is kin of Abie's Irish Rose...
...RM 7.50...
...No one is as wise as Destiny...
...The first deals with the nature of the Bible and its relation to God, the Church, and the life and work of the priest...
...as one laughs delightedly at the first utterances of a child...
...and it will be so...
...2.00...
...Implicated in his fortunes, and to some extent his antagonist, is Else, a beautiful young woman whose suffering is in large measure an heroic sacrifice...
...New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...
...The whites were simply nowhere...
...It is a preliminary to, not a substitute for, a manual of biblical introduction...
...May the charming book, so well filled with things that matter, meet with many, many friends...
...but that does not prove that all pottery knowledge came from that part of the world—to suggest it is absurd...
...Briggs to head off the storm that had arisen over the critical writings of W. Robertson Smith in the Scotch Kirk, and was sweeping toward the Presbyterian Church in America...
...We know far too little about the origins of most cultural facts to dogmatize about them as some do...
...And one must give Mr...
...Of Dr...
...1.50...
...An AMERICAN reader must warmly commend English historians for the intelligent interest they have recently taken in the American Civil War...
...reads like an echo of Rider Haggard's romances...
...The narrative of the war is succinct and well-done...
...Of course, he got into trouble with the law and was racked...
...By presenting the setting and atmosphere which called them forth, Lieutenant Niles has enabled the reader to hear them as they were given...
...the white's lament, though sincere, is vulgar in expression and 668 in thought, while the Negro's is instinct with the same sort of poetry which have made the ballads of primitive peoples a source of refreshment in a world grown civilized and banal...
...669 Unfortunately, the editors have occasionally been betrayed by finding poems in Catholic periodicals which have not indicated that their authors were not Catholic...
...It is the lack of precisely that tendency that one admires in the writer of this book...
...THE author of this interesting book is announced as "winner of the Grand Literary Prize awarded by the French Academy...
...WHILE one may not necessarily coincide with Alfred Noyes's rather rapturous estimate of The Eel, one may recognize in it touches of unusual quality...
...Jambs A. Walsh...
...He is a very mild and lovable old "heretic" indeed, and the Presbyterians could have afforded to let him go on teaching and preaching...
...but he explains that he distinguished between amanuenses and those who actually spoke by inspiration of God...
...THE account written of his own adventures by Alonso de Contreras, originally of Madrid and by turns valet, soldier, sailor, executioner, pirate, governor of cities, hermit, and commander of the Order of Malta, is now at the disposal of English readers in an excellent translation by Catherine Alison Phillips...
...the old South Africa passed and the new was born...
...Of these and other compatriots, he says, "Far from being hampered in their apostolic work by their national attributes, they derive extra force from them, for the missionary spirit is part of the genius of their country as well as part of their own faith and fervor...
...In attempting to prove the unintellectual character of the South, he adduces the fact that the cotton-gin was invented by a Northerner but fails to note that the American government was largely the work of Southerners...
...Many episodes have the charm of spiritual idyls...
...He can write of people as brilliantly as Aldous Huxley, and with sunlight and gayety where Huxley would be bitter...
...2.50...
...He did not repent—not a bit of it...
...Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy, by C. S. Forester...
...Only two of the Durnans have anything in mind, imagination, or education, to distinguish them from a family of well-trained animals...
...The majority of the faithful had gradually come to regard the "prelatical" version of 1611—including, one has a suspicion, the Dedicatory Epistle against "Popish persons" and "self-conceited brethren, who run their own ways"—as, "from civer to civer," from Genesis to Revelations, no more and no less, the Word of God...
...for, in trying to vindicate a crystallized doctrine of the church to which it referred as a norm against the heretics, it virtually placed the church above the Bible and thus denied the fundamental Protestant tenet of die right of private judgment...
...Knowles's sketch ought to prove useful to many readers...
...and he has given generous recognition to the labors of Catholic missioners, especially those of his own nationality...
...Robert R. Hull...
...Millin does not presume to prophesy...
...And one may question the propriety of using Francis Thompson's line, "deliberate speed, majestic instancy," as a translation of the phrase, "suavement et fortement...
...Her present book recounts a journey into Italy, and concerns itself to a large extent with shrines and churches at which the faithful gather...
...of his brother and murderer, Dingaan the Vulture, who betrayed Pieter Retief and his Dutch followers...
...3.50...
...AN EXCELLENT and timely book recording impressions about a part of the world that is particularly accessible to American travelers, is Hamish McLaurin's study and guidebook on Morocco, Algieria, and Tunis...
...Frederick H. Martens...
...In the third, the scientific study of the Bible and the preparation and equipment necessary therefor are discussed...
...Sheehan all honor for the living creation to which he has given birth...
...At first the appearance of such a creature in such a setting strikes one as a farcical absurdity, but presently it seems an inevitable tragedy...
...nevertheless, it is far more beautifully written, brings out in justice at least an occasional spark of culture amid the barbarians, and handles a splendid and elusive idea with consummate skill...
...His account of a number of Indian objects and customs is most interesting, and his facts and figures about the populations, aboriginal and immigrant, of the United States are worth careful consideration...
...In many of them the influence of the old Negro spirituals is evident, and in almost all of them the religious element is present...
...The Eel and Other Poems, by Evan Morgan...
...WE ARE only beginning with anthologies and anthologists: this is the outcome of the confusion and vastness of our publishers' output, and it is a cheering sign that Catholic editors are taking care that our recent voices in American song shall not suffer neglect on the part of the public...
...THIS work, written in the form of a series of letters, was published in French some five years ago...
...There is a person who sometimes comes to the community, however, a painter bored with the French business man who is her husband...
...Singing Soldiers, by John J. Niles...
...That church was undoubtedly inconsistent in haling Dr...
...We are glad to agree with him...
...He can touch off a character with, the swift, involved precision of the school of Henry James...
...At last I had discovered something original—a kind of folk music, brought up to date and adapted to the war situations...
...Joseph M. Egan...
...In 1877, Anthony Trollope wrote: "South Africa is a country of black men—and not of white men...
...Lieutenant Niles has connected the songs with the various incidents which led to his hearing them sung, and in this way has added color and meaning to the songs themselves...
...The author has looked through French glasses at the sight9 665 666 that revealed themselves as he passed, but his book will be relished by anyone who is seeking for light on the darkened China of our day and generation...
...Munich: Verlag Josef Kb'sel and Friedrich Pustei...
...He was evidently well introduced, finding useful contacts wherever he went and managing to cover the most important centres, with occasional dips into the interior...
...Smith is now seventy-nine years of age and takes satisfaction in the thought that he was not "ruined" by the suspension of 1893, but is "still useful" and has been doing service to "the universal church...
...a warlike person, with often, as in the case of the Zulus, a great fighting history...
...We are more impressed by the directness of vision and expression shown in such poems as Agnus Dei, The Christ Child, and In Answer...
...THREE volumes, different in character and all attractive, make their bows to the public under the titles listed above...
...That was his quality...
...there is this one cultured person who takes Donald under her wing and fosters his desire to find civilization...
...ANYTHING which Professor Wissler writes about American ethnology is always worth reading...
...By comparison she is a master of concentrated feeling which simply makes one marvel that a woman can write with so much force...
...The Blessed John of Avila is not Saint John...
...That Last Infirmity is a rippling record of the fortuitous, super-suburban, socially-ascending American scene...
...I wish those who have read Dreiser's tragic tale and felt its power could read the hundred pages or so which the Austrian novelist devotes to the passing of her hero...
...It bears the impress of a soul hungry for light—not merely the light of sunny days which appeals so strongly to northern temperaments coming into Italy, but also the light of faith and spiritual peace...
...In China relates his travel experiences during the vears 1920 and 1921...
...Paul Crowley...
...Also it may be noted that the references to chapters and verses are occasionally wide of the mark...
...By the very wealth of his subject, he is hurried from topic to topic, able only to let his reader glimpse bits of a very fascinating wonderland...
...he cannot advance along the road to civilization on which he is started, for the white man bars his way...
...1.00...
...The claim of the speaker to speak for God," he says, "is admitted—certainly I had never questioned it...
...so we visit, in turn, Marrakeesh City of Pleasure, Rabat, Meknes Fes, Tlemgen, Oran, Biskra, Algiers, and finish with Tunis of the Many Hues...
...Vogel Wunderlich relates the experiences of Anton Andreas Weitensicht, a citizen of the trim little village of Himmelpforten...
...Certainly there are many highly personalized narratives of travel in English, but I doubt if there is any to compare with Der Gang zur Liebe...
...Emmy Hennings is a poet whose work has long since attracted wide attention...
...The non-Catholic names quoted in Current Catholic Verse include, among others, Joseph Auslander, Mary Carolyn Davies, Roxanna Grate, Leslie Nelson Jennings, Harry Kemp, Charles Wharton Stork, Harold Vinal, Margaret Widdemer, and Marguerite Wilkinson...
...Idem...
...These northern sections of Africa have been touched at Algiers and Tangier by many tourists who have, nevertheless, failed to pursue the magical invitation of the beautiful and dramatic lands that lie beyond...
...E Forbes Dawson...
...His poems have the beauty of a Peredur legend in contrast to Gaelic emotionalism...
...Speaking of Chinese students returned from abroad, M. Bonnard says they come back into China "less as reformers than as ravagers...
...The growth of Johannesburg from a mining camp to a city of 300,000 in less than forty years, is the story of a great adventure...
...He also contributed important articles to the Presbyterian Review, founded by Dr...
...He found Bolshevism even then (seven years ago) "sparing no efforts...
...Putting forward the Romans as his spokesmen, he finds the Supreme Pontiff "weak in political science...
...This is Protestant conservatism par excellence...
...New York: Dodd, Mead and Company...
...But if we are to have Catholic anthologies, it would be well to avoid giving rise to these misapprehensions...
...She says: "No one can tell yet whether Anthony Trollope was right or whether he was wrong...
...New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...
...Here is more tragedy...
...The centaur appears as the colt of a mare belonging to the Durnan family...
...When he sought wealth he made a million a year...
...Father Robert," the author says, "is one of the strongest and clearest minds of the Far East...
...The Relation of Nature to Man contains a large amount of evidence bearing on the "diffusion" question so much discussed today...
...There is a school which maintains—in spite of the warning given with regard to the assertion of universal negatives—that no significant cultural fact was ever twice discovered ; from which doctrine it would follow that if two customs occur even in widely separated parts of the world, one place must have learned it from the other...
...Bertram C. A. Windle...
...But crudities of every kind fill it, crudities of speech, of manner, of ethics...
...It is a portrait, too, of Irish wit, will and winsomeness...
...Current Catholic Verse is an excellent compilation, covering the ground of Catholic poetry with painstaking thoroughness and giving representation to the best that is being produced...
...They do not disturb Mr...
...TO WRITE of a centaur living in Missouri, and to make the reader accept his existence and to follow his career with intense interest, requires no small amount of skill...
...Current Catholic Verse: An Anthology, by David P. Me Astacker and Edward H. Pfeiffer...
...As a matter of fact, Dr...
...Although the author supplies no bibliography (and, in a work of this kind, a bibliography would have been more valuable than the family tree of the House of Savoy, which is given us) the volume is well documented in those parts that bear upon the origin of the struggle, the French intervention and all those phases, generally, diplomatic and military, which finally made a king of Sardinia king of Italy...
...The second points out the best method of reading the Scriptures and of pursuing a very elementary study of them...
...BRIEFER MENTION The American Civil War, by David Knowles...
...It has been so...
...The book will be read chiefly by seminarists, to whom it will be found useful at the beginning of a course in Scripture...
...New York: Oxford University Press...
...T_ _.T _ Kathryn White Ryan...
...Smith never wanted to see this) and every other Presbyterian minister of the present is entertaining and proclaiming views far more dangerous to the peace of Christians than those of Dr...
...But when he proves his manhood by abducting a girl and joining the stove-circle in the village store, he is welcomed to the bosom of Roosevelt, Missouri...
...THE SOUTH AFRICANS, by Mrs...
...Sir Frederick Maurice's Lee, and Lord Charnwood's Lincoln are both excellent biographies...
...The South Africans, by Sarah Gertrude Millin...
...New York: The John Day Company...
...IN HIS introduction to this compilation of songs of the American Expeditionary Force, Lieutenant Niles, a young Kentucky aviator who is also a musician, writes the following significant words: "My resolution at first was intended to include any songs sung by the soldiers of the United States army, but the imagination of the white boys did not, as a rule, express itself in song...
...HOW shall he be forgiven, this Charles Brackett...
...He bore his censures with patience and obediently refrained, in deference to the General Assembly, from preaching in either Presbyterian pulpits or those of other denominations...
...They preferred to trek into the great unknown interior, rather than submit to British rule...
...The reader will see how and why and believe him...
...The present author confesses to a lifelong interest in the period as a whole, and tries only to create a graphic impression of the events and the interests at stake...
...RM 9.50...
...With all his animalism, the Negro proves in his songs that he does not live only in the moment...
...Side by side with Donald's development runs the centaur's increasing degeneration: at first playing with wood-nymphs and speaking in a flow of Homeric verse, he finally becomes a 100 percent American of the Bible belt...
...New York: Alfred A. Knopf...
...Fredericka had been planning how they'd get momma to borrow money enough to take them to Hollywood...
...The book traces the history of the country from its discovery by the Portuguese toward the close of the fifteenth century, to the present day...
...Forester sees in the whole attitude of Pope Pius IX versus Victor Emmanuel only "fanatical obstinacy...
...Since his suspension from the ministry, not merely one but seven devils of German rationalism have come in upon the faithful like a flood (Dr...
...The errors of the book, though numerous, are not important...
...An interesting comment on Confucianism is that made to the author by the rector of Aurora, the Jesuit University in Shanghai, who stated that Confucianism had given to some of the young students "extraordinarily well-ordered behavior, wonderful discretion and exquisite delicacy...
...Sometimes the emotional pressure is, in fact, almost unbearable...
...670 That Last Infirmity, by Charles Brackett...
...We are safe in assuming that this inclusion was made without any purpose of claiming for the Church performances which, strictly speaking, are not hers...
...The English translation has carefully preserved these mistakes of the original work and added a few more...
...The village has other characters in number...
...This has to do with those chapters which, like that entitled The Church and the Nation, consider the Supreme Pontiff in his relations to developments which attacked the international character of the Papacy and its moral and political freedom...
...New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...
...When the girl, the great beauty, "made one of her slow, long-considered remarks they laughed...
...Like the greatest of the Caesars, he left his possessions to the people...
...His characters toss off hysteria and ejaculations to the saints...
...It is subway-strap magazine reading...
...What About North Africa?, by Hamish McLaurin...
...Even the words of the Negro songs were infinitely superior to the creations of their white brothers in arms, for while the words of the latter were ribald or at best merely broadly humorous, the Negro imparted often a crude poetry and often even a tragic sense at once personal and poignant...
...of Moselikatze, whose manner of burial excited Cecil Rhodes's admiration...
...New York: Scott, Foresman and Company...
...The author incidentally remarks that the Unfted States is "hardly less interested than Japan," but he gives the United States credit for more cleverness and for "adroit generosity" in relinquishing its share of the indemnity fund...
...This volume, like his others, is marked by an urbanity, reasonableness and absence of dogmatic assertion on insufficient evidence which make it pleasant and convincing...
...Das Blutzeugnis completes the trilogy which the great Austrian novelist, Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti, has consecrated to certain episodes in modern German history...
...Vogel Wunderlich, by Heinrich Luhmann...
...Millin, "unwanted by the world, born into ostracism...
...Briefly stated, the theme is a strange experience which results in the hero's execution as a criminal...
...This apparent inability to realize that Pope Pius IX was not an obstinate fanatic, moved by purely worldly and political considerations, but a courageous defender of principles which he could not forsake, is a blemish in an otherwise interesting book...
...And this perhaps is one of the reasons why his songs were so immeasurably superior to those of his white brothers...
...The community, too stupid to see the wonder of his mere existence, takes him only as a joke, and is not even sufficiently interested to make a success of his appearance as a side-show in the fair...
...There is no gainsaying the general utility of the book...
...Half-Gods is a minor Main Street: it follows on the path cut by Sinclair Lewis, but is less exhaustive and final...
...The Septuagint was completed before the Christian era...
...Thomas Walsh...
...He is multitudinous already, and increasing...
...Luhmann deals with his amiable material in the spirit of an understanding poet and a sympathetic humorist...
...Any study of the Risorgimento and the first king of United Italy calls for a historian who, discounting what in essence are details, has the vision which goes beyond surface indication and reveals the inner logic of events...
...Mrs...
...We congratulate the editors of this anthology and deeply regret the demise of Edward H. Pfeiffer, who collaborated in the work...
...Whence, poor betrayed being, shall pride and hope and courage come to him ?" Then there are the labor difficulties, and the problem of the British Indians in Natal, which Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi spent twenty-one years vainly trying to solve...
...THIS book gives us, in the main, and in so far as the detail of the actual struggle against the Austrian foe is concerned, a clear and readable story...
...His long-range view of the problem seems to endow him with clear discernment of the vaster forces in operation, but distorts his view of minor elements...
...The Study of the Bible, by L. C. Fillion...
...surprising that so lovely and flower-seeming a creation should be using the processes of cerebration...
...The general tone of Catholic poetry is, perhaps, rather reassuring and creditable than of a quality to inspire glorying or unrestrained applause...
...Pius IX was unquestionably one of the great Popes and nothing, perhaps, more conclusively justifies his uncompromising attitude with regard to the Church's rights than the present international position of the Papacy, which is a realization of the proclamation of the universality of the papal episcopate made by the Vatican Council of 1870...
...There can be no doubt about the scholarship of this kindly old gentleman...
...London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company...
...Sarah Gertrude MilA lin, blocks in the background of modern South Africa, and discusses, with admirable impartiality, the many problems which confront the present-day South African...
...Millin, while saluting the successes, also chronicles the defeats...
Vol. 5 • April 1927 • No. 24
