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722 BOOKS Colonel Bob Ingersoll, by Cameron Rogers. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. $3.00. MR. ROGERS has followed up his fictional biography of Walt Whitman, The Magnificent Idler, with...
...Rogers was just the man to be chosen to write this book...
...It is ironic to see the intellectuals who have escaped from dogma restricting their thought with a new dogma of their own...
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...the Pageant Queen, Ann Neville...
...the Faithful Eleanora of Castile...
...Her Majesty, by E. Thornton Cook...
...The choice made is very good...
...It certainly does not derive from his construction, which is of a Monday-Tuesday order, nor in his insight, which is seldom better than superficial, nor in his faculty for similes...
...Apart from these merits, which will undoubtedly put it through enough editions to make it a financial success, Captain Reisenberg's book has little to be said for it...
...We reach a feminine climax in the Great White Queen Victoria and her lovely successor Alexandra...
...It is more than an accident that Einstein and Bergson lived in the same generation, Rodin and Monet in the same city...
...the Lady of Gay Provence, Eleanor...
...She finally decided, near the end of her days, to take the convent veil...
...Our present systems do this only by the way, incidentally and at haphazard, if at all...
...Manual for Dominican Lay Brothers, $0.80...
...Ernest Brennecke, Jr...
...Richard Linn Edsall...
...Others are new, and almost equally remarkable...
...If you ask what is the third, I answer the same—humility...
...the carol of the lark...
...The Rose-Red Queen Margaret of Anjou...
...All save one carol, Childing of a Maiden Bright, are in Latin: they are reprinted from two French collections of hymns for processions, the Cowley Carol Book, the Manuale Precum, and the Processional of the nuns of Chester...
...Although Malet's work is designed for the classroom and so cannot preserve the narrative charm of such treatises as Bainville's, it is nevertheless readable and excellently organized...
...if they are, I, at least, have never met any like them...
...Rogers always refers to his subject) derived, in a positive fashion, his magnificent physical presence, eloquence, and love of liberty...
...In order to improve matters, we must operate on the motives of ourselves, of our own adult communities...
...and while we may admit that there is a more decorous side as well, it is not only legitimate but necessary for us to inquire just why that seamy side must exist at all...
...Drink it and you will feel within your blood the starlit dawns, the dreamy, tawny dusks of many perfect days...
...No doubt many of the characters are drawn from actual people...
...Two men, a writer and a distinguished doctor, who were rivals for her platonic preferences, share the cult with him...
...Speaking in frankly medical terms, this is the day when physiology casts loose the trammels of anatomy, and we study disease in action more enthusiastically than in the deadhouse...
...It tells of men's efforts to fight predatory railroad interests and corrupt politics, and to build a new order, and it is not only stimulating in its byplay of human reactions, but utterly engrossing as a tall tale...
...Interested as so many Catholic novelists have been before him (Father Hugh Benson and the very talented convert who wrote herself John Oliver Hobbes are shining exemplars) in the class which fares delicately and lives high, Mr...
...The Commonweal would greatly appreciate the receipt of copies of Number 13, Volume V, from any of its readers who may possess extra copies of this number...
...Expressed in another way, this is only the pathetic fallacy—the attribution on the part of the author to some inanimate object, in this case New York City, of characteristics originating in the author himself...
...It was a strenuous task, this, to found the physiology of heart diseases and to place on record what might be termed the life history of the heart, scornful of the anatomical "murmurs" of the big-wigs...
...the Good without Lack Marguerite of France...
...The famous Chicago speech in nomination of...
...She lived in The City...
...Finally, in the Manual for Dominican Lay Brothers, we have a charming paper-covered volume, containing not only their Rule, but the manner of serving Mass, numerous Dominican liturgical prayers, and the Rule of Saint Augustine...
...Then it was suggested that the letter should be read a second time...
...He moved to Harley Street, temple of British consultants, and then to prove himself truly great, finding the life of an, idol a stagnant one, he crept back to the country to end his days, as he had begun them, as a country practitioner...
...He seems to have been able to make men cry merely by remarking that twice two are four...
...The religious poems vary from odes in the manner of Vaughn and Thompson to carols, such as Our Lady Was a Milkmaid...
...It deals with those cases, very common in melodramatic fiction and apparently not infrequent in real life, in which dying persons seem to pierce the veil between this world and the next, and to see dead friends awaiting them on the other side...
...WHAT is The City...
...Baring's people are quite exempt, keep the philanderings that cover many years platonic affairs...
...In all cases but two, the plain-chant notation is given...
...Every budding cause sought her aid...
...Captain Reisenberg has attempted a novel of which the hero is our metropolis...
...His good arguments are hopelessly vitiated by his too violent apostrophes, by his puerile ejaculations and exclamations...
...Yet his most famous speeches, whether upon politics or religion, when read, make him appear always too orotund and frequently something very much like a windbag...
...But those at all acquainted with continental fiction will be more deliberate in judgment...
...It infests many novels that are far from edifying and a still greater number that are far from convincing...
...The people with whom it deals may be human beings...
...Semicorn, the wobbly, are excellent portraits...
...As to the pupils and students themselves, they too often seek information and training merely as means toward the acquisition of social distinction and wealth...
...Rogers's delightful book is a rich and racy personality...
...Oh, you do piece-work here, do you...
...Harangue then proceeds to give an exposition of these remarks...
...Judas is a 726 mystery play in simple, vigorous verse, with many stabs at modern business: it is another masterpiece of printing...
...MOST Catholics have frequently encountered the interest and curiosity of their non-Catholic friends and neighbors regarding the tenets and practices of the Church...
...but not in its creative principle...
...There is much the same pleasure in reading him as in catching a level, modulated voice amid a gathering of strident, highpitched talkers, each striving to outspeak the other...
...Pertinent and Impertinent is a medley of religious, humorous, and political verse, decorated with interesting engravings by Chute, Jones, and Purney...
...Roderick Gill...
...Drink it and you will hear the voices of men and maidens singing the 'Harvest Home,' mingled with the laughter of children...
...What is inherent has been so well put by Miss Agnes Repplier in a review of Mr...
...The services to religious truth of the brothers, Father Joseph and Father John Rickaby, now in their eightieth year, have been manifold, including works in the Stonyhurst Series on First Principles of Knowledge and General Metaphysics, and constant contributions to American and English magazines...
...He was dismissed from the teaching staff of the De Witt Clinton High School during the panicky days of the war, and has not yet recovered his poise...
...Thomas Walsh...
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...It emphasizes the necessity for living, as well as professing, ideals of freedom...
...The book is worth study, for the subject is one much discussed today...
...THE productions of Saint Dominic's Press for 1926 offer the usual variety of subject-matter, the usual excellence of printing, writing, and woodcuts...
...and again, nursery rhymes, and ironical witticisms in verse...
...At the conclusion of the speech, Oliver Morton, the Governor of Indiana, slapped the orator on the back and said, "My God, Bob, you were sublime...
...The matter is reported with ample certification, and certainly does not seem to fit in with a theory of mere illusion...
...And it was done, as so much of man's best work is done, in the cloister of a secluded mind...
...It insists that education must take account of the hours which the child and the student spend outside the school and in the inescapable stream of the life of the community...
...All these things would seem at first sight to place Daphne Adeane well within the category of authentic Catholic fiction...
...FATHER RICKAByS new book in the My Bookcase Series, gives the reader "the inner meaning and spirit of the great cycle of feasts that are brought before him in the course of the year...
...Are human beings happy in direct ratio to the comforts and conveniences they enjoy ? And if this be granted, is it good art to attribute to a city some mystical personality striving vaguely toward its golden dream of better and ever better physical conditions...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Only the minor characters have any life—Pug Malone, Mrs...
...Daphne Adeane, by Maurice Baring...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Life was his laboratory, the polygraph 725 of his invention, almost his only tool...
...And who could fail to reverence the writer of the following letter...
...but if I had my notebooks here I could tell you...
...At another time, a professor of Greek in Maine said that if Demosthenes was more eloquent than Ingersoll he must have been very badly reported...
...The members of the committee cudgelled their brains for a long time in vain...
...and the least educated as to what all these things signify...
...What emerges from Mr...
...and the world is not there...
...Baring's complete athomeness in the world he has chosen to depict...
...The style is overdone...
...In it you will find the sunshine and the shadow that chased each other over the billowy fields...
...Bertfand Russell's Education and the Good Life is indicative of a healthily growing consciousness of this need of a general movement toward an intelligent adult and community education...
...New York: New Education Publishing Company...
...Theodore Maynard...
...The book contains a fair number of pen sketches of city life which are as well done as such writing can be...
...So new, indeed, to Catholic readers of English and American literature is the association of their own religious issues with mundane love, that the tendency to claim as their own any romance of distinction in which justice is done them is easily understandable...
...if it is accurate (I cannot vouch for this) it might be called a social document...
...Josephine Lambert, the heroine, is cast from the mold of a lady of fashion after which anyone who had never met a "Van Horn" in the flesh might imagine all such creatures to be formed—perfectly cold, scheming, calculating for her own ends, which are comfort, luxury, pride, and satisfaction of sex desires...
...East Side, West Side, by Felix Reisenberg...
...Edwin Clark...
...New York: E. P. Button and Company...
...One may well note also the attractive format of the book...
...From him, Bob (it is so that Mr...
...The plain-chant notation is less complete than in the larger book, but there are more illustrations...
...It affords a glimpse of their seamy side...
...Perhaps, when an attempt is made to balance his excellences against his shortcomings, poise is the quality that stands out...
...We will let it go at that...
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...Marriage is about to regularize the position when the lost aviator returns, his memory restored, and the novel ends upon a note of renunciation...
...It is an inconsecutive, incoherent, frequently absurd diatribe against things as they are, especially in our public schools...
...Hence the Arabian Nights, the flying carpet, the pyramids, the zodiac, the artifacts, discontent, Utopias, and politics...
...Daphne Adeane is in her grave and no more than a memory when the story opens, at a date that one would place roughly about 1905...
...All this is mixed with bitter realism: excellently written passages on New York politics, the reflection that after all, "Tammany, reform, Tammany, reform, Tammany" sums up New York's history...
...New York: Saint Dominic's Press...
...but one group of cases submitted, very puzzling to holders of that hypothesis, is that of persons who have claimed to see, amongst others well-known to be dead, those whom they believed to be alive...
...The novel, which on every page lays claim to being "significant," has no real significance whatever, because it is deeply imbued with the spirit inherent in much modern literature—the conviction that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts...
...An affinity with Dr...
...In the nature of things, the dwellers in these buildings will present a great variety of persons, desires, habits, and the greatest city of the western world will differ from any other only in being larger...
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...And it administers a much-needed and devastating criticism of the mechanistic psychology underlying the current vogue of intelligence tests...
...The legendary Daphne was a pietist, with a domestic chapel all her own for meditation and prayer...
...it holds one's attention admirably...
...Breen, the Lipvitches...
...Baring handles his own folk without any empressement...
...Rogers soft-pedals discreetly upon that aspect of his career...
...London: Methuen and Company...
...While she was at home for the midwinter holidays, she decided to visit some of the big factories in order to get materials for her college work...
...The Ecclesiastical Year contains learned and helpful chapters on feasts like those of Epiphany, Candlemas, Pentecost, All Saints and The Immaculate Conception, providing useful and interesting matter for priest as well as layman...
...We somehow trust that this primary cultural function of education will be fulfilled if its secondary, practical functions are only sufficiently exercised...
...This is a matter of importance, not only to lovers of art, but to those who would convert the youth of today: which, in religion as in other matters, has thrown overboard the absurdities of post-mediaeval times, in search of what is real...
...but it is as an orator that he is most picturesque...
...At the crisis of her own fate, it is a long conversation with Father Rendall, Hyacinth's confessor, that arouses Fanny's misgivings and helps her to take the harder way...
...The reason for the existence of Sarah Lumpkin is not to be discovered in any superficial defects in school or university organization...
...and Bob as politician...
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...A country doctor of Burnley (who ever heard of Burnley...
...Her teachers were proud of her...
...In solving the problem of what to do with her large income, she had turned her money and effort toward the needs of social life...
...But though Ingersoll will be remembered longest as an agnostic, Mr...
...The verse strikes varied notes: naivete, delicate fantasy, invective, worship, and the simplicity of carols...
...Thus in his old age he knocks at the door of each astounded doctor in the town of St...
...the She-Wolf Isabella of France...
...Essentially it is a large collection of dwellings placed so close together as to be practically continuous...
...For he has dealt, with fairness and in no partisan spirit, with what Ingersoll did during his life, but has laid the chief emphasis upon what Ingersoll was, a character racy, genial and virile...
...1HOSE familiar with the book, On the Threshold of the Unseen, are aware that its late author was careful in his selection of instances and cautions in drawing arguments from them...
...The characterizations of Plaino, the hard-headed banker...
...If you ask what is the first step in the way of truth, I answer humility...
...This is a little too much...
...Baring's former novel, Cat's Cradle, published in these columns, and is so applicable to his latest effort, that I make no excuse for repeating it: "The only serious occupation of all these men and women is to fall in love, and they invariably fall in love with persons who are already provided with the one husband or the one wife whom law and custom permit . . . nothing save love seems to interest them, which is a pity...
...Pallen, in his years of commuting, has met these early morning and dewy-eye questioners: he has known how to resolve their difficulties, turn back the fire upon his jokers, and unravel the skein of misinformation and error which, blacker than the smoke from the locomotive, cloud the mental atmosphere of so many of our good fellow-citizens...
...Harangue, by Garet Garrett...
...I can't quite remember what it is...
...It is as perfect a book, on a smaller scale...
...SARAH LUMPKIN was a student of industrial problems in Newtown, College for Women...
...The crusading queen, Berengaria of Navarre...
...Frank Greene that has grown up during hospital service in Boulogne drifts into life in common...
...Bob grinned as he answered, "Oliver, I could have made a better speech for you than I did for Blaine...
...It may, then, be mere illusion...
...Her husband is reported missing on the Belgian front...
...Edward L. Keyes...
...It is throughout eminently readable...
...What is the communion of saints...
...the Nine Days Queen, Jane Grey...
...But in spite of the worship, in spite of the hatred of the embattled consultants (who seem—in the telling—incapable of either perception or ratiocination) Sir James looms out of the narrative, gigantic...
...ROGERS has followed up his fictional biography of Walt Whitman, The Magnificent Idler, with a straightforward life of the great agnostic orator...
...Parents wish to demonstrate the high quality of the endowments which they have transmitted to their offspring...
...Common Carol Book, $4-50...
...the breath of June...
...It is the mingled souls of wheat and corn...
...New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company...
...A long line of variegated queens files down the ages...
...Cantica Natalia, $75-00...
...She had been left his entire fortune...
...Or Lo...
...in so far as the hero keeps his place, the novel is all very well, but as soon as the hero ceases to be a physical city and begins to be a spiritual person, the task fails...
...Ingersoll's father, handsome, eloquent, and possessed of enormous physical strength and vitality, was a Presbyterian minister who, because of his furious denunciations of slavery, lost one pulpit after another and was obliged to wander from town to town in the Middle-West, taking with him his two motherless sons...
...Nevertheless, taking advantage of the easy manners and freedom from meaner cares which are a social inheritance, he gives us novels that never sink below a certain level of distinction...
...H. L. Binsse...
...Well," was the retort, "there's something wrong with it, I know...
...What the pleasant voice has to say becomes, for the moment, less important than the rest to nerves and ear...
...A resemblance that none can explain but none miss seeing, between the dead woman and Fanny Choyce, a young matron not too happily married, makes the latter the inheritor of all this devotion...
...But a legend that has grown up around her personality and power over men renders her none the less the protagonist in Mr...
...Perhaps the finest of these represents purgatory being emptied by the Sacrifice of the Mass and the prayers of Our Lady...
...Why do you fast in Lent...
...Her description of herself remains: "Eleanora, by the wrath of God, Queen of England...
...At the age of seventy, her son Richard Lion-Heart made her regent of England during his long absence in the Holy Land...
...Andrew's and begs that he may help...
...New York: Harper and Brothers...
...What is curious in the record, however, is the fact that all those who reappear, even those persons who admittedly might require at least some purgatorial cleansing, seem to have gone straight to heaven, and come thence or are shown there in the vision...
...Small wonder...
...Baring's novel...
...But the remorseless rigidity of his father's Calvinism, of a type at once Hebraic and provincial, had its natural effect upon a nature that was equally virile and sensitive, and Bob, along with his brother Clark, escaped at the earliest possible moment from the rigors of the Presbyterian discipline and theology and the frightful prospect of the Presbyterian paradise, "where congregations ne'er break up, and Sabbaths never end...
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...Why do you put ashes on your forehead?—and a thousand other questions, sometimes foolish, sometimes serious enough for the questioner, and sometimes difficult for the uninstructed Catholic to answer properly...
...It points out that "we are the best educated people in the world with respect to incidental matters and the endless details of existence...
...It is a vivid and varied life that is presented to us: Bob's part in the Civil War as colonel of an Illinois regiment of cavalry...
...IT WOULD be an interesting exercise in remedial critical gymnastics to try to identify and pin down once for all the charm that resides in Maurice Baring's facile chronicles of the well-cushioned classes...
...We cannot go on expecting our students to form themselves into a future generation which will rise superior to ourselves, if we systematically train them to cherish only our own low ideals...
...For forty years this liquid joy has been within the happy staves of oak, longing to touch the lips of men...
...Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the maligners of his honor...
...His book is a diary of these encounters, and it will instruct as well as amuse many who will still go on questioning to the end...
...the wealth of summer and autumn's rich content, all golden with imprisoned light...
...Cook's volume may be welcomed by the reader not only as romance, but as a handy historical compilation...
...Baring's new novel...
...She lent her wealth to back the New Freedom venture—a disguise for the Non-Partisan League of the West Here we are given a charming picture of intellectuals and farmers bucking up against human nature and its vices to establish a reformed state...
...If they fail, it is the opinion of the present writer that they fail because they are rather adornments than an inherent part of its structure...
...Then we read of Edith Matilda of Scotland, queen consort of Henry I, whose early life was spent in the disguise of a nun and who came forth when the skies cleared for her royal nuptials...
...Serious particular criticism of such a book is rather futile...
...That they really believe this is unquestionable, though in the majority of cases the vision is not shared by those around the death-bed...
...Yes," replied her guide, "we do piece-work in this department...
...Blaine is a case in point...
...No doubt it was as a lawyer that Ingersoll was greatest...
...Deeply in love with her husband, a Liberal member of Parliament, she discovers that a liaison with a married woman has persisted up to the very threshold of marriage, and her affection cannot survive the discovery...
...These tendencies, successful and valuable as their results may occasionally turn out to be, operate to obscure, if not to negate or oppose, the main function of education, in the better sense of that term...
...There is always some Episcopalian, Baptist or Methodist to lean over the back-yard fence to ask: What is a mission...
...Presently they came to a sewing-room where piece-work was obviously going on...
...These are, to a deplorably large extent, the motives which drive the raw material into our schools...
...It is an exciting dramatization of the intellectual and social problems which prevail in the more experimental state governments of the Middle-West and the Northwest...
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...An ABRIDGMENT of Malet's standard texts on French history is offered by Doubleday, Page and Company as the first of a series of books they are to publish in the French language for American readers...
...After a lecture on Shakespeare, one in his audience declared (Ingersoll chuckled over the remark for the rest of his life): "A greater than Shakespeare is his panegyrist...
...You could find no better book to give your son, if his interest be medicine...
...IN A handsomely illustrated volume, E. Thornton Cook gives the life-story of the queens of England from the reign of Matilda of Flanders, the Norman queen, down to the coming of Alexandra, "the sea-king's daughter...
...The material gathered and arranged in Mr...
...Adult Education, by Joseph K. Hart...
...Duty and a certain fastidiousness from which none of Mr...
...Here is a press run by devout Catholics, tertiaries of Saint Dominic, producing work not surpassed by any secular artists...
...and our officers of instruction necessarily find themselves unable to remain unaffected by them...
...What's wrong with piece-work...
...If you ask what is the second, I say humility...
...But if Ingersoll always had the orator's tendency to lay it on a bit thick, he was quite outdone by some of his own admirers...
...Histoire de France, by A. Malet and Paul Rice Doolin...
...New York E. P. Dutton and Company...
...Garrett introduces his novel with a short preface that observes that "man is the only animal that can think as if...
...The subject is a bit large for the hand of the author...
...All this is especially notable in Cantica Natalia, a folio collection of twenty Christmas carols, and the most ambitious work the Press has ever done...
...the Injured Queen, Caroline of Brunswick...
...This anecdote, taken from Professor Hart's new book, will be accepted by any honest educator as an illustration of the manner in which our best institutions of learning so often fail to educate...
...These are some of the bare facts about Cantica Natalia: in speaking of the paper, printing, and woodcuts, one can only say that it seems no finer work could be done, save by hand...
...One of these motives is vanity...
...The Plantagenets come on the scene with the lively, romantic Eleanora of Aquitaine, friend and patron of ProvenQal troubadours, and granddaughter of the gay old Duke William, whose character she inherited...
...Henry Longan Stuart...
...Of the two before us now, Mr...
...That is, after all, a question underlying all modern, criticism: whether it is the function of literary art to deal with life, or to become an underling of the highly dubious science of sociology...
...Bob's triumphs as a lawyer...
...a Scot, watched and waited and recorded what happened through the lifetime of his patients...
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...A man, a manly man—sagacious, brave, kind, honest (with a few minor reservations concerning his political career) and humorous...
...The Widow-woman of England, Elizabeth Woodville...
...Fanny has been the unwitting victim of a marriage of convenience...
...Capuchin, the spellbinder...
...Schmalhausen's volume is largely a wasted effort...
...The real complaint one must have against East Side, West Side is far more general...
...As Man to Man: Adventures of a Commuter, by Conde B. Fallen...
...Not to dwell upon the confusion inherent in all this, one must question the optimism...
...2.75...
...An education should add to the student's comprehension and understanding of the truth, and should enable him to plan, and as far as possible to live, his life accordingly...
...Humanizing Education, by Samuel D. Schmalhausen...
...the dews of night...
...Many of the woodcuts are by Desmond Chute, reproduced in color from Songs to Our Lady of Silence...
...New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company...
...Her home in the slums was a salon of the intellectuals...
...Again, the state or the community, wishing to perpetuate itself with all its vices, is interested primarily in turning out good (that is to say, acquiescent) citizens and patriots, all stamped according to the same pattern—not in assisting in the production of active, original minds, which are too often felt to be the enemies of an established political or economic order...
...This quality of poise is all the more grateful because it is the outward and visible sign of Mr...
...The calendar of royal ladies starts off with the beating administered by William the Conqueror to the haughty Matilda, who scorned him as the son of a tanner's daughter and who later succumbed to his martial courting...
...Instead of being concerned with persons and their interrelations, we are thrown into a vague evolutionary optimism which anticipates the time when plenty will be common and the poor will be only the poor in spirit or in mind...
...Daphne's husband is a recluse, entirely devoted to her memory and keeping the room in which she was taken with her last illness locked and shuttered against the world...
...but the material has been handled, for the most part, as a novelist would handle it...
...the Little Queen, Isabella of Valois...
...they wish to point with pride to their own accomplishments as progenitors, and are consequently not interested in any progress of the individual child, for its own sake...
...Catholic ideology prevails throughout Mr...
...The fact is that Ingersoll's superb presence and his golden voice did the trick...
...I am told that in 1887, when that letter was written and published in New York, the body that corresponded to our own AntiSaloon League met to consider what could be done about it...
...The Common Carol Book has much the same material as Cantica Natalia, save that it includes several Easter and Christmas carols in English...
...And the reason is that these writers have a conception of their art in no wise different, at bottom, from that with which they reproach their adversaries...
...A spirit of impartiality is maintained, and the stress is laid on matters of real importance...
...Fitzgerald, the intellectual...
...The eminent critic M. Emil Baumann, writing in a recent issue of La Vie Catholique on The Crisis in the Novel, had something to say that might well be taken 724 to heart by writers in England or America who keep the Catholic novel before them as an enduring ambition...
...The "whiff of incense" which Hugo's lieutenant Gillenormand thought gave such savor to an amourette, is an old, old discovery on the French side of the Straits of Dover...
...Hyacinth Wake, Michael Choyce's mistress, was a member of the older Church, and an access of conscience on her part was the main factor in the rupture...
...As Garet Garrett is one of the most brilliant financial writers in the country, Harangue illuminates this adventure in government cooperation with discerning comments upon producing and marketing...
...As a foot-note it may be remarked that no Catholics figure amongst those vouchsafed these visions...
...again, and he is not there...
...727 728 BRIEFER MENTION Death-Bed Visions, by Sir William Barrett...
...I send you some of the most wonderful whisky that ever drove a skeleton from a feast or painted landscapes in the brain of man...
...ONE of the most characteristic gestures of our time is the effort to be rid of the static conceptions that restricted the philosophy, the art, the physics even, of our forbears, and to replace them by symbols at least, if not actual representations of a moving, living type...
...Professor Hart's book, on the other hand, is an exceedingly valuable, because logical, statement of the radical position...
...It is impossible to regard Ingersoll without liking him...
...Ingersoll never lost a profound reverence for the passionate sincerity of his father's character, and the tenderness of the old man was repaid with unfaltering love...
...To have made so successful a portrait he must be himself what his subject was, a man...
...But war comes...
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...the Witchcraft queen, Johanna of Navarre...
...Many Catholic artists," said M. Baumann, "are no more than religious moralists...
...The best that one can say about it is that its author is undoubtedly sincere...
...The opening chapters—though they do not attempt to draw any moral—explain the career of the agnostic...
...From him, too, he derived something that was of equal importance—though it was negative: his abhorrence of religious belief...
...After a quarter century of this toil the world was at his feet...
...The Ecclesiastical Year, by Reverend John Rickaby, S. J. New York: Joseph F. Wagner, Inc...
...Among the poems are a mystery play on Bethlehem and a miracle play on Saint Sebastian...
...It lies rather in the motives which actuate many of our guardians, administrators and teachers, as well as our pupils...
...and in view of certain financial incidents in Blaine's career it becomes ludicrous...
...The rapid succession of somewhat radical books on this subject which have followed the publication of Mr...
...the Sister Queens, Mary and Anne...
...Judas, $3.00...
...After which the committee continued its deliberations in a neighboring saloon...
...Her notebooks were filled with materials from readings and lectures...
...There are denunciations of the capitalist system...
...THIS latest novel of Garet Garrett's is one of the most arresting and original of this year's crop of Amercan novels...
...She was deeply interested in learning about how the other half of the world lives— and why...
...Pertinent and Impertinent, $4.50...
...And this makes the book very free and fresh...
...That simplicity, balance, and rhythm of line and mass which we admire in Chinese, Egyptian, early Greek, and the best modern art, characterizes such pictures as the Flight into Egypt and Bernardette kneeling before Our Lady...
...The same virtues are discernable in this posthumous volume...
...It is this fallacy of intention which accounts, in the end, for Sarah Lumpkin...
...At the great clothing shops of the G. M. and C. Company, she was shown through by a member of the personnel department...
...The Beloved Physician: Sir James Mackenzie, by R. Macnair Wilson...
...exclaimed Miss Lumpkin...
...Here on their doorsteps stood the most renowned physician of his age, a man whose name had become almost a legend, asking to be permitted to undertake on their behalf a little of the burden of family practice in a small Scottish town...
...Their work is Catholic in its conclusions...
...Our science shares with art this preoccupation...
...John Breen, the nominal hero, is such a mixture of wild romanticism and go-gettiveness as to be perfectly unreal...
...1.35...
...Jael Saint-Leon is the only daughter of her fabulously rich father...
...These last seldom rise, in his hands, above the obvious, and in the volume under review can produce nothing less banal to express a temperamental woman than Vesuvius, at rest and Vesuvius in eruption...
...He knows, as Thackeray guessed before verifying his theory, that they talk oftener of their stomachs than their souls, that the Merry Widow means (or meant) more to them than a fugue by Bach, that they are more at home in gossip about lovers than in lofty speculations upon love—in 723 a word, that the proportion of high- and low-browedness remains a constant regardless of the milieu selected...
...Humanizing Education is an example of a good theme swamped under a turgid and noisome flood of soap-box oratory...
...There are no fictitious incidents here...
...It took their breath away...
...Printing, paper and binding are much better than anything one could hope to import from Paris just now at anything like the same price...
...He says, Lo...
Vol. 5 • May 1927 • No. 26
