The Quiet Corner
THE QUIET CORNER I counsel thee, shut not tky heart nor thy library.---C~ LAMB. "This," said Miss Brynmarian, as she flourished a large pair of editorial scissors, "this is the day for...
...This feature of our organization accounts to a large ex- tent for the long list of representative concerns that have continued to send us their printing orders for many year~ newspaper articles or moving pictures...
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...EDWIN CLARK is a New York reviewer and critic of fiction...
...SIR BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE, pro~essor of anthropology in Saint Michael's College, Toronto, is the author of Life in Early Britain, The Church and Science, and other books...
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...Angelicus...
...Here is an adver-tisement which reads: 'Personal Analysis Chart...
...Do you wear your hair bobbed ? When did you bob it ?' " Miss Brynmarian paused breathlessly...
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...I know I need a haircut--but there are others," she added significantly...
...exclaimed Dr...
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...Just think," said Miss Brynmarian, "how lovely it will be to have a perfume to match one's own personality...
...Welt," replied the Doctor, "I see at a glance G. K.'s Weekly, Snappy Stories, The Christian Register, Blackfriars, the Junior League Bulletin, and the New York World--all publications somewhat divergent in their scope, to say the least...
...All asinine," grumbled Angelicus...
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...Both," replied Miss Brynmarian, "but newspapers first...
...Chesterton replied by the following: " 'If Brother Francis pardoned Brother Flea, There still seems need of such strange charity...
...Angelicus chuckled as Miss Brynmarian picked up another clipping...
...The late GEORGE STERLING, one of the most distinguished of modern American poets, was the author of Testimony of the Suns, A Wine of Wizardry I The Caged Eagle, and Selected Poems...
...The old Gaelic conception of educa- tion...
...Just what do you mean by that...
...BURGES JOHNSON is professor of English in Vassar College and author of Rhymes by Little Boys, Yearbook of Humor, and As I Was Saying.MARIE GALLAGHEE is a member of the younger school of story-tellers...
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...Miss Brynmarian again consulted the chart and continued : " 'What do you feel your age to be...
...Ridiculous question," said the Doctor, "for, of course, the answer varies each day, depending on how late you were up the night before...
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...So I've noticed," remarked Angelicus sadly...
...If I could qualify there as an instructor, you could qualify as dean," retorted Miss Brynmarian...
...It is said that clown propaganda in Russia, if properly handled, zz4 THE COMMONWEAL December 1, 1926 has a stronger appeal to the masses than a hundred profound glount St...
...I must send it off at once...
...Business before beauty in this library...
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...Barnes, the Anglician bishop of Birmingham, who brought forth a storm of protest by saying of Saint Francis that 'his attitude toward body vermin was not ours,' and that 'a modem nurse would have bathed him in warm water and ant/septic.' Mr...
...Snappy Stories and the Junior League Bulletin, Are sisters under the skin," chanted Miss Brynmarian...
...This is from an article in Blackfr/ars on hymns, and states that so far, no hymn has yet broken the record set by the Yorkshire sexton's hymn for episcopal visitation, which reads: " 'Why do ye hop, ye little hills, And wherefore do ye skip ? It is because is come to us His Grace, the Lord Bishop.' " "Hymn writers should be forced to take out a state license on poetic license," commented Angelicus...
...However, let us get on to the Junior League Bulletin...
...topical presentation of literary, political and satiri- cal subjects...
...In what department ?" "Declamation and patter," said Dr...
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...HENRr S. WHITEHEAD has been pastor of several important arishes of the Episcopal Church, and examining chaplain to various ishops of the American Anglican Communion...
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...Who bobbed it ?" supplemented the Doctor...
...You seem," said the Doctor, looking over her shoulder at the periodicals, "to have selected a curious assortment...
...Now when I was young--" "Please be quiet, Doctor," interrupted Miss Brynmarian, as she chewed the end of her pencil reflectively, "and let me fill out my chart...
...queried the Doctor blandly...
...asked Miss Brynmarian...
...The sonnet printed in this issue was written shortly before his death...
...Now let me see" (she regarded the advertisement intently) "the last question is, 'What is your mood today?' " "Exasperation," growled Angelicus, reaching for his hat...
...And speaking of such kinship," she went on, picking up one of her clippings, "let me read you how Chesterton summed it up in his comment on Dr...
...Youth is getting sillier every day...
...Seeing he is, for all his gay good will, Bitten by funny little creatures still.' " Dr...
...Then brandishing the scissors once more, she savagely attacked a pile of newspapers and magazines...
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...My dear Doctor," remarked Miss Brynmarian, "intangible but virtual kinship may well exist and yet be insusceptible of proof...
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...demanded Miss Brynmarian...
...And now where do the rest of your clippings lead us ?" "To Moscow," replied Miss Brynmarian...
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...instruction in contem- porary politics and "wise-cracks" of political flavor.' " "On to Moscow...
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...This," said Miss Brynmarian, as she flourished a large pair of editorial scissors, "this is the day for clipping...
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...You may see no similarity of idea between fleas and the following," she remarked, "but nevertheless two connections do somehow suggest themselves...
...The New York World states that 'a school for the training of clowns, known as the Clowns' Academy, has been opened in Moscow...
...How curious...
...They forgot that...
...Prove it," replied Angelicus...
...asked Miss Brynmarian...
...Angelicus...
Vol. 5 • December 1926 • No. 4
