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Terry manages to be the dominant figure as the acid, proud and possessive Mrs. Borkman. Many of the scenes recall Miss "Ferry's equally fine work in a well-remembered play of two seasons ago,...
...It is the rather picayune interpreta- tion of emotional moments that has led us into the morass of so much modern poetry, so much voodooism of criticism and shuffling jazz-tunes, so much cheap bleating of modern sen-timentalists who do not know where they are, or why or whither with anything...
...T O THOSE who found the novels of William J. Locke in their early teens and reveled in each new one as it came along, it is a pleasure to know that he is still writing charmingly of charming folk...
...I know of only one woman that might have written such a version, only one, and that woman was Alice Meynell...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...But the play can depend for its appeal on a very tragic and poignant plot, re-inforced by some worthy acting...
...In the first place, he is truly a literary artist...
...The traditional stress upon oral reading is an anachronistic relic of days before oratory had been superseded by the printed page...
...H. L. S. I I OpenlngDTuesd~ty' Nov...
...The prophets prepared for a "kingdom which is not of this world," and if Utopias mean anything, they mean a universe wherein its inhabitants are not destined to "take up a cross...
...To reconcile Henry Ford with Herman Bahr is, I suggest, the major problem of today and tomorrow...
...Art, too, joins in...
...fixation"--the length of time during which the reader pauses over a single span...
...If we fall in with any system that will diminish our inner life, we will lose delight in life and the possibility of artistic, or scientific, or social creativeness...
...The right price is the lowest price an article can steadily be sold for...
...He leaves to the reader's judgment whether to think the founder of Islam an ignorant but clever religious crook, a paranoiac, or a sincere prophet...
...and Sat...
...One was wise and one was fair And one was mine...
...2.30 Chickering $258 BOOKS Today and Tomorrow, by Henry Ford in collaboration with Samuel Crov:ther...
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...But he cannot for a moment be reverent toward the man as the prophet...
...Earthquakes, it is stated, are caused by earth currer, ts, the latter by the sun...
...The two best essays are those on the Oberammergau Passion Play and Litterae Humaniores...
...FULTON J. SHEEN...
...He is meeting, it would seem, not only a world's want, but a world's longing: it is as though men and women were finding some hope of theirs realized in the machinery he is giving them--the machinery that can be handled by the least expert amongst them...
...New York: George H. Doran Company...
...GEORGE D. MEADOWS...
...Reading: Its Psychology and Pedagogy, by John z~nthony O'Brien...
...Then there is Anthony, intro- duced to us first in a dinner jacket and a gay humor at a table of humorously drab individuals...
...The value of this book increases as it approaches its end...
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...THE COMMONWEAL Grand Central Terminal New York City Mohammed, by R. F. Dibble...
...And he does not always keep his flippancy where Christians will not find it offensive...
...And yet we speak of civilization and are even definite about their characteristics...
...and "regression"--the number of rereadings necessary for full comprehension of the meaning.9 By these tests, the degree of the student's attain-ment of the dual aim in reading--rapidity and accuracy---can be minutely determined...
...Burdett needs plenty of elbow room to do himself justice, and here he has had to confine himself to the limits of space imposed upon a writer for the weekly reviews...
...Moreover, the book is full of helpful detailed suggestions as to how this program can be carried out...
...but the agonized inspired speech of the blind Oedipus Rex does not nullify the transcendent poetical beauty of the entire tragedy of Sophocles...
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...And it is precisely through books, buildings, and works of art that human societies have done these things--that is, have formed civilizations...
...Henry Ford's book, if read critically, makes us face these issues, and for that reason, and also because it shows how vastly productive- ness can be increased through ideas and management, it is a significant book, a book which no one who is interested in the life of our time should miss reading...
...and finally the Utopian socialists and pseudo-Utopias from Morelly to H. G. Wells...
...We want production great enough to give a living to every adult in our society...
...match are conspicuous by their absence fro m .the wardrobes Of well-dressed r ~ ~ntire'r copyrighted~ 1926, by B. ufltman & Co...
...And at the same time we want such inner life as we have retained and enhanced...
...Burdett's The Idea of Coventry Patmore, and The Beardsley Period--the one about as good a book as could be written on its subject, the other the best book on the 'nineties that ha: been written--his Critical Essays are somewhat disappointing...
...No fair share of analysis is calculated to show how we can have a tetra-hedral form with an earth that is so plastic...
...The critical appreciation studies the characteristics of The Utopians and the Utopias, The Utopianistic Contribution to Civilization, and finally, The Limited Perspective of the Utopias...
...the Re-public of Plato...
...And now the soul demands his return...
...I T IS with some surprise that the reader of so excellent a modern poet as Arthur Davison Ficke will read his preface when he states that Milton's declared theme and purpose "to justify the ways of God to man" no longer has any meaning for a changed world...
...Egon Brecher is a theatrical Borkman, earnest enough, but with only rare moments of effectiveness...
...But Mr...
...The repeated attempts at interpreting the existence of llfe on the planet Mars is a matter of common knowledge...
...But why tell the story ? A Locke story anyway, is chiefly attractive because of its own personal manner...
...Cutting wages is no cure for low consumption--it only makes the consumption still lower by reducing the number of possible customers...
...by Joyce Oramel Hertz- leE...
...Following a hurried survey of the pages of the above-named book, he might be deceived into the belief that this was just the tome he had been looking for...
...the early modern Utopias of Bacon, Cam-panella, and Harrington...
...the critical analysis which absorbs the latter half is made up of some fine appreciations of Utopianism...
...that is in the enterprise which most closely affects the people of Europe and America, he is a thorough revolutionary...
...But, smitten with an afterglow of physical passion for the girl's beauty, he consents to hold his tongue, and, after her mother's death, carries her to his parsonage as a bride...
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...Money is not the source of any of these qualities, though these qualities are the most frequent sources of money...
...The right price is not what the traffic will bear...
...Now those of us who have heard of the poetry of mathe- matics, who have learned of the great traditions of a beauty handed down by the masters of learning, of philosophy and re-ligion...
...Similarly vicious is the habit of de- veloping one type of reading for all subjects instead of dif- ferentiating among methods proper to what may be called the study attitude, the pleasure attitude, and the skimming atti-tude...
...T HIS work which is a reissue of the 1923 edition is, in the words of the author, "the first book that attempts to give an unprejudiced systematic treatment of the social Utopias as a whole...
...But she, though sharing all of Patmore's ideas, carefully refrained from expressing any of them in her work...
...Ficke's poetry is superior to his criticism...
...Ne~ York: Doubleday, Page and Com- pany...
...FRANCIS A. TOSVORF...
...There was never a time in human history when every man, woman, and child in any society had what Henry Ford would regard as decent food, shelter, and clothing...
...Perella, by William J. Locke...
...Henry Ford's system is bound to become a model for other producers, great and little, and this will make a revolution in the business of production...
...These civilizations have had their failures...
...In this new tale there is Perella, so small that she seemed to herself to take up too little room to be of much account in the world, yet she was such an eager and flaming little person that she moves understandably in the story from a world of back bedrooms and chimney-pot outlooks to a position in a world of culture and beauty...
...Astronomy Today, by Thomas Moreux...
...What he has to say about Hawthorne and Meredith and Gay and Alice Meynell and his other subjects is sound, but not particularly new or striking...
...O F THE great religions of the world which critics have sought to compare with Christianity, Mohammedanism has usually come in for the least respect...
...It has stolen him away from his soul...
...The Bible no more belongs in a history of Utopian thought than the Ars Poetica belongs in a history of finance...
...The right wage is the highest wage the employer can steadily pay...
...Industry is not money--it is made up of ideas, labor, and management, and the natural expression of these is not dividends, but utility, quality, and availability...
...Five years of tempered happiness are brought to an end by the return of Martin, his son by a former marriage, from the seminary of Wittenberg...
...Criticism of his opin- ion is reserved, as the entire matter is adhuc sub judice...
...Critical Essays, by Osbert Burdett...
...And his departures have been signalized by the greatest volume of production in the world's history...
...He writes lucidly, with crisp delicious sentences, in this age when writers of more import hardly consider the question of grammar as other than unseemly...
...His style is light and ingratiating...
...The way to check a threatened depression is to cut the price and increase the wage...
...We are not wrong when we do this, for civilizations, after all, are the efforts made by human societies to reclaim us from the wildness of nature, to focus men's minds upon certain ideas that are beyond the provid-ing of food, clothing, and shelter, and to enhance whatever they possess of an inner life...
...The practice of ana-lytical reading so beloved of incompetent teachers who go through the Merchant of Venice picking out transitive verbs and participial phrases, is discovered to be equally harmful to speed and intelligence...
...He cannot but use Christianity in illus- trating the nature of another religion to a Christian race...
...Well, I have read the book, and I am acquainted with its author...
...Distress cries aloud...
...She never quite extracts the full emotional power from a scene and is afflicted with a large number of manner-isms...
...Most adult reading is merely a form of dawdlingi:tand the indiv/dual is rare who can give an accurate parapl "ase of even the most eagerly devoured morning newspaper..n"Ability to read" is not so easy as it looks...
...This work is very typical of a certain attitude of thought of the present day which seeks to melt away the edges of things and dissolve entities into environment...
...It seems to have been within the experience of the writer that solar disturbances run concurrently with outbursts of fire-damp...
...The author contributes an interesting paragraph to the literature on this topic...
...New York: The Macmillan Gompany...
...Apostate, by Forrest Reid...
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...but if they had been agita- tors as well as idealists they might have been greater...
...In this passage we have his general idea: "It matters not what books may be written, what buildings put up, what works of art created--nothing matters if the opportunity be not given for anyone who wills to live as befits a human being...
...In his latest novel, PereUa, he again presents characters who immediately gain our hearts...
...But when one remembers the well-paid American factory-workers whom one has known, one cannot have much faith in the efficient factory and machine as promoters of a fine human life: these men are not free-minded...
...And there is Beatrice, fair and shining at forty...
...Compton Mackenzie revealed the soul of Michael Fane in a mastelpiece that is almost a classic, a host of writers of the meaner sort have been lurking in the alleyways off Sinister Street ready to unburden their sorrows and their problems, erotic and religious, before a generation raised on Freud and Jung and scornful of reticence and re-pression...
...The historical section of this work is interestingly written, though it makes no new exposition of the Utopianists contained therein and, in some cases, the historical survey is founded on second-hand sources...
...8elected Poems, by Arthur Davison Ficke...
...And it all strikes him as so funny that he only occasionally arises above flippancy...
...The History of Utopian Thought...
...Singularly enough, geophysicists will not own a like experi-ence...
...New York: The Yiking Press...
...Material dis-tinctions are kept between dollars and cents, pounds and shillings, but spiritual distinctions between the natural and the supernatural, the political and the religious are completely lost in the intoxication of a philosophy of devenir...
...In more than a few instances, Astronomy Today appeals to me as Astronomy Yesterday...
...Never was happiness so unattainable and freedom so dead...
...Coblentz, of the Bureau of Standards of the United States, argue to a temperature of from five to fifteen degrees above zero on the same scale...
...In the Sonnets of a Portrait Painter, he adheres persistently to the questionable final couplet, much affected by latter-day sonneteers, and in At St...
...Ye mourners, weave for the sleeping hair Of only two your ivy vine...
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...What, as a producer, is Henry Ford's philosophy...
...The story of James Kent Stone, who became a zealous Passionist, after having been an Episcopalian minister, is here pre- sented as a compelling spiritual drama...
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...with a genius potentially, to say the least, not inferior to his own...
...An employer of hundreds of thousands of workers, he gets away from trade-unions, and every kind of labor organization...
...As palace chaplain, it was the duty of Absolon, a middle-aged Lutheran pastor, to denounce her to the civil arm...
...Externalization may increase productiveness, may make comfort more widespread, but it may also make for an unhappiness as great as any unhappiness that has come upon human society...
...he finds the Koran a mixture of meaningless babble, ungrammatical Arabic, unpoetlcal verse, stupid legislation, and inconsistency...
...Dibble is flippant toward all prophets...
...I turn from Henry Ford's sanguine prophecy to read a passage I had marked in a book by the German dramatist, Herman Bahr...
...man cries out for his soul...
...This is saying far too much...
...but Sister Mary Christina could never have given it to us...
...But higher wages and lower prices mean greater buying power~more customers...
...EDWIN CLARK...
...But in the balance that he would have to the life of production, there are no poems, nor pictures, nor music, nor philosophy, nor history read through a philosophy--there is only the entertainment of knowing trees and birds, of motor- ing, and of walking across" the countryside...
...Quite the opposite is the accepted doc- trine today...
...Burdett is concerned with the biography, written by an American religious, of this re-markable young nun...
...He decides that "the evidence of her character, poetry, portraits, and the progress of her spiritual life, including its ecstatic end, suggest that she had not a religious vocation at all...
...those to whom the classic myths mean anything, to whom the bells of religion still spell sounds of harmony and recollection, will rise in protest against this modern denial of their force and beauty in poetry...
...Humphreys, a recognized authority in this connection, writes: "It has been known for some time that the curve of the sun-spot numbers and the curve of earth tem- peratures follow or parallel each other in a general way, in the sense that the fewer the spots, the higher the temperature, with, however, puzzling discrepancies, here and there...
...He notes that there is a need for a balance in life...
...How-ever, one must own his disappointment in finding such figures as thirty-five to forty degrees below zero on the centigrade scale indicated as the prevailing temperature on the planet when the recent determinations by radiometry, made by Dr...
...That usually these outbursts happen at the times of violent earth movements...
...they have satisfaction, but they have not the delight in life that one can detect even in the complaining farmer in the Irish country-side...
...Again, all students in geodesy favor the isostatic theory as a reliable working hypothesis...
...Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company...
...Christmas Offt 0f istintt/0n There are among your friends individuals for whom you could select no better gift than a sub-scription to The Commonweal...
...But surely it does matter...
...I F ONE were asked to name the most significant figure in the world of today, one would have to point, I think, to Henry Ford...
...They are exceedingly well written, with an icy precision learned from Patmore, but it would seem that Mr...
...Burdett carries his enthusiasm for his master to such a length as to add to Patmore's quaint dislike for all celibates not under religious vows, and to disapprove of all celibates...
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...But he should know that the book, though containing much that is orthodox, sponsors theories which do not share the sympathy of the modem astronomer and meteorologist...
...translated by C. F. Russell...
...What is more, they "failed to see how to use the spirit of protest for reform purposes...
...He revels in the vast inconsistencies of his character...
...it is The Three Sisters: Gone are the three, those sisters rare With wonder-lips and eyes ashine...
...His findings are gleaned, for the most parr, from his observations at the telescope...
...the "eye-voice span" --the number of words by which the eye precedes the voice in oral reading...
...It is divided into two great parts, the first treating the history of social thought and the second, a critical appre- ciation of the potency of the social ideals given us in history...
...Many of the scenes recall Miss "Ferry's equally fine work in a well-remembered play of two seasons ago, Children of the Moon...
...Sister Mary Christina's poems are fairly good, but are imitative of her father's...
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...Miss Le Gallienne confirms the impression that she is a good, but far from a great, actress...
...Perhaps Mr...
...Yet the art is hardly ever rea!J ~ mastered...
...During the last" decade, the experimental researches of Judd, Gray, Terry, Oberholtzer, Thomdike, and a score of others have revealed a x ~t intricate set of physiological and psychological processes i/"volved, the knowledge of which is in a fair way to revolutionize the whole teaching of the subject...
...T HAT modern education is based upon the ~ity to read may be regarded as the most truistic of trui~ is...
...The book is readable enough to hold the interest of a highschool boy, yet aims rather at popular adult mentality...
...Agai n the spectrum of the spots the bands of com- pounds are and, which, at the ordinary temperature of the chromosphel , could not exist...
...ERNEST SUTHERLAND BATES...
...His sudden death gives his mother, who has been an unsleeping and malevolent spy upon the sinful idyll, a chance to overwhelm her daughter-in- law by an accusation of witchcraft and murder, and the curtain falls upon the certainty that the frail young widow will be the victim of just such another spasm of popular cruelty as has already wrung our withers in a former act...
...They have become externalized, their inner life has been diminished...
...Never has he felt so nervous...
...and also a lovable professor...
...Neces-sarily the direction of the plumb line is affected by side pulls from mountains, plateaus, etc., and by deficiency of mass in water areas...
...THEODORE MAYNARD...
...The effort is made to dig out of the vast muddle of Moslem tradition the man who turned prophet, and to set him forth as a human character live enough for a novel...
...What sort of a world does Henry Ford look forward to...
...Poetry, pure and simple, lies in the moments of literature it is true...
...Certainly it would be a great thing to have a wife's version of the Patmorean theme...
...Indeed, as one reads Today and Tomorrow, one is filled with a fear that the Spanish writer, Unamuno, may have been right when he declared that where there is efficiency there can be no deep llfe and where there is science there can be no wisdom...
...It says something that has to be taken into account by all exponents of Henry Ford's philosophy : "This is the vital point--that man should find himself again.9 .9 . . We would turn him into a mere instrument...
...Ficke adds that the only passages of Paradise Lost which will continue to thrill generation after generation are those that vibrate with the great poet's personal passion...
...Pursuing his "voyage of rediscovery," as he so aptly calls it, he is faced by the difficult task of recapturing the changing and elusive moods of boyhood and adolescence, and the equally difficult task of putting them faithfully into prose without the intervention of the maturer consciousness of later years...
...High wages with high prices do not help anyone---it just means that everything has been marked up...
...In business...
...into the great darkness she, too, calls for help, she cries to the spirit: this is expressionism...
...No political leader has made such a change in people's lives or has created such a world of new interests...
...By far the finest chapter itt the book is the one entitled: The Limited Perspective of the Utopians, in which the author enumerates the weaknesses in Utopian schemes...
...To me, however, much the most interesting of these papers is the one on A Daughter of Coventry Patmore...
...Mohammed himself determined that no vivid biography of him would be fit for youthful readers...
...A great producer, he will have nothing to do with banking, with that financial system which we have been led to believe is the dominant factor in the world's affairs...
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...THOMAS WALSH...
...He sees an amusing advantage in Mohammed's progressive revelation with its many reversals, over the inex- orable nature of the scriptures of Christianity and Mormon-ism which cannot change to meet every shift of events...
...and I cannot agree...
...Expressionism, by Herman Bahr, translated by R. T. Gribble...
...Limited Engagement Actors Theatre Production EUGENE O'NEILL'S BEYOND THE HORIZON Mansfield Theatre---Eves...
...Maybe this popular actress has taken too literally~ certain charges of lack of restraint made against her when she was the Bride of the Lamb, and replaced it by a repression carried at times over the verge of monotony...
...One wants, of course, to have a society so productive that everyone within it is well-clad, well-housed, and well-fed, and with leisure enough to permit of the finer faculties being cul- tivated...
...AND HELEN GRACE SMITH Of this inspiring biography, the Charleston Gazette says: "This book is a record that no religious person, be he Catholic, Jew or Protestant, should be deprived of reading...
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...Shift of emphasis from oral to silent reading, from plodding analysis to swift synthesis, from the class to the individual--- this is the rational program set forth convincingly in Pro-fessor O'Brien's work...
...A FTER Mr...
...As the doomed Anne, Miss Alice Brady is at all times a tragic and haunting figure...
...That much we may know, quite apart from any "still, small voice...
...A. CAIN...
...Finally to be condemned is the neglect of individual variations, since no two students have exactly the same speech- rhythms or verbal associations...
...It will gain none from R. F. Dibble's biography of its prophet...
...Burdett's reason for his opinion ? "It is impossible to quell the still, small voice that whispers 'she was intended for something else': To live, and so to write a wife's version of her father's epic theme .9...
...This sam chapter carries a unique theory to account for seismic occu rences...
...no writer, thinker, or philosophical scientist has affected the habit of thinking of millions of people as this man has...
...T HE author's choice of title and the publisher's descrip- tion of this work as "a spiritual autobiography" both raise misgivings which, happily, are falsified when one reads Apostate...
...Anne Pedersdotter is the beautiful daughter of a poor widow who has eked out a living by "witchcraft," in other words, by selling simples and specifics to the credulous townsfolk of Bergen...
...Surveys executed by precise triangulation, astronomical obser- vations and gravity readings in all parts of the world invari- ably demonstrate that the shape of the globe is everywhere about the same...
...Reid, however, bears no affinity to this unsavory brotherhood...
...He never tampered with mirades--a fact that," says this author, "perhaps, more than any other, indicates his superiority over preceding prophets...
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...As fire-damps arise at depths far less than the computed depths of the focal points of violent quakes, a dependency is all but obvious...
...It is not at all typical of the emotional moments he so much appreciates, but is, in reality, cultivated fine verse, in full rapport with traditional literature...
...The other side is in his conception of business and in the application of his distinctive ideas to his own great factory system...
...Never has man been more insignificant...
...Emily Pat- more entered the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, where she was known as Sister Mary Christina, and died some years later at the age of twenty-nine...
...this whole pregnant time is one great cry of anguish...
...Here are extracts from his book which indicate it: "Wages are more of a question for business than they are for labor...
...Th6r6se, St...
...and when we are told that the poet is never a teacher, we may well ask what he is if not a formulator of culture, even in a mood, or an explorer into the depths of emotion...
...In spite of the importance attached by its producers to the name of Mr...
...Flippancy may be all that Mohammed as man and prophet deserves, for all the consequences with which Islam has scarred the pages of history...
...Reading, by Professor O'Brien, summarizes dearly the scientific findings, estimates their importance, and indicates their pedagogical implications...
...A great proportion of the elementary school-pupil's tim ~ad energy is devoted to the learning of this art, so simple >appearance, and a large share of nearly everyone's later li~,J is devoted to its exercise...
...Regarding the geoid surface of the earth, this changes from place to place...
...The Witch T HE WITCH, a tragedy by the Norwegian dramatist and director, Wiers-Jensen, has been familiar to students of the drama in text for some seven or eight years, and is now, at the Greenwich Village Theatre, given its first per- formance in America...
...Ficke's most successful poem happens, luckily, to be a brief one...
...The Henry Ford who expresses himself in Today and Tomorrow seems to overlook the inner life of man, to take no account of the life of intuition, thought, and meditation, of the life that expresses itself in art and philosophy and that has been fostered by the great civilizations that he discounts so readily...
...The table of contents shows a generous list of inviting topics, and the omission of all mathematical discussion would especially appeal to him...
...The geodial and spheroidal surfaces are very dose together throughout the world, with the exception that there are deviations amounting to probably as much as ioo metres under the Andes and Rocky Mountains, and, possibly, some other high mountains, but these humps are local in char- acter, and in all likelihood, not extending more than 2oo to 3oo miles away from the higk mountains...
...It is a gift formal enough for a business acquaintance and personal enough for a friend or relative...
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...The apostasy which gives the book its title is the author's final rebellion, immediately after his confirmation, against the dreary and unsatisfying form of Irish Protestant Episcopalianism in which he was brought up...
...T HE layman, unofficially interested in the story of the skies, will welcome to his library shelves only such texts in astronomy as are shorn of all technicalities of the classroom...
...The scientific results rest upon skilfully devised measurements of the "visual span"--the num, A SCHOOL FOR GIRLS OAK KNOLL School of the Holy Child AN EI.I~MENTARY ann COLLEGE PREPARATORY $CR00L SUMMIT, N.J...
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...Since the days--and what ages ago they seem to us late-Victorians--when Mr...
...Granting such a melt ,~ to obtain, and this is not unequivocally estab- lished, the erence from happenings in the Maritan atmos-phere to lil~ ones in the encircling envelope of the earth is not warranl The insinuation that the sun-spot areas are especially hr :~ ands contradicted when we recall that in the spot spectru ,,h temperature lines are weakened, or dis-appear entir ., aereas the low temperature lines are strength- ened...
...9 . . As idealists, they were great...
...But what is Mr...
...Abb(~ Moreux, to bolster his contentions, instances the melt- ing of the friar caps of Mars according to his rule...
...One of their great defects was "that they failed to start with things as they are...
...We want a re-organization of production so that the gigantic waste of mate- rial and life that is part of the industrial system that we know may be cut out...
...New York: Dodd, Mead and Company...
...So, in the chapter entitled, The Sun's Influence on the Earth's Climate, he is told that the earth's temperature increases with the sun-spot numbers...
...Sephanos he introduces us to a Greek monk of rather dubious theories...
...They permitted a gulf to develop between the Is and their To Be...
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...GEORCEM...
...In one of those accesses of remorse which precipitate doom, the unhappy clergyman reveals his sin of silence to son and wife...
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...Low wages will break business far more quickly than they will labor...
...Its discovery, following a night of pas- toral stress, the reproaches of the wife, maddened by what she now deems was the theft of her youth, together proves too much for Absolon's overtried heart...
...It is no small praise of his ability as a writer to say that he has succeeded admirably...
...This calls for a resisting crustal substance resting on a plastic subcn~tal base...
...The combination strikes the author as grotesquery...
...Every hill, mountain or island has an effect upon it...
...he has become the tool of his own work, and he has not more sense, since he serves the machine...
...And it is significant that a demand for that machinery and a real interest in the use of it should exist in the least developed countries and amongst hardly cultivated peoples...
...The first half would be twice as good if it were but half as long and if the author had forgotten to include a spiritual kingdom in the narrow confines of a political or economic one...
...Furthermore, the tests indicate in-ferentially the success or failure of the methods of teaching employed.9 Contrary to popular supposition, it is found that oral read- ing of a passage fixes it less firmly in the memory than doe~ the same amount of time spent in silent reading, because attention is divided between the apprehension of meaning and the effort of pronunciation...
...Jesus Christ, for the author, is a social reformer and not the Redeemer, a teacher of indi- vidualistic ethics and not the Giver of Life, aye, he even criti- cizes the Utopia of Jesus because He "seemed to stress unduly the individual...
...The author presents the man as nearly as fanatical fog and thirteen and a half centuries leave material for the reconstruction...
...But their triumphs have been great: their triumphs achieved through books, buildings, and works of art live in the human spirit...
...If the reviewer possessed the means, he would send the volume to every primary and secondary ~;eacher in the country with an earnest entreaty to read, learn, and inwardly digest its contents...
...New ]York: The Century Company...
...The right wage is not the lowest sum a man will work for...
...The production of cars and of tractors for agricultural work is only one side of the revolution which Henry Ford is bring- ing about...
...Remove the props of philosophy and religion from poetry and we have nothing more than the quivering jelly-fish that seem for all their uncertainty to wiggle into the high-chairs of our critical lighthouses...
...P~a~v~Ic CortrM...
...They are more important to business than they are to labor...
...The whole pro- duction, and Miss Le Gallienne's acting in particular, would be greatly improved by the discipline of an outside director...
...There was never an epoch in which opportunity was given for anyone who willed to live in the way that Henry Ford would regard as befitting to a human being...
...John Masefield as adapter, no particular literary quality is discoverable in his translation, which is pedestrian over long stretches...
...Illustrated, $5.00 For Sale at all Booksellers G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 2 West 45th Street New York ber of words taken in at a single glance...
...For one was wise and one was fair, And one was mine...
...It is this loss of the value of things which most probably accounts for the author's inclusion of Jesus Christ and H. G. Wells in The History of Utopian Thought...
...The historical review embraces the ethico-religious Utopias of the prophets, Christ, Augustine, and Savonarola...
...Resident and Day Pupih C~lmu of 12 Acre: ~ O~ of Smmmifs Highe~ Poi~ Rosemont College at Rosemom, Pa., St, Frideswide's at Oxford and finishing schools in Paris, Rome and Freibourg, are also under the supervision of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus...
...There is no attempt to analyze the character according to any of the modern popular psychologies...
...The postulate for a tetrahedral or triangular pyramidal shape for the eartk, as indicated on page 66, disclaims the author's confidence in the researches of modern geologists...
...New York: Henry Holt and Compan~ Sa.oo...
...The immediate consequence of the confession is to provoke the sullen and repressed young woman to an exercise of the power she feels she has inherited, and the age-old tragedy of Paolo and Francesca is reenacted under northern skies...
...He has turned away from the traditional way of carrying on a great business...
Vol. 5 • December 1926 • No. 4
