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Vernon, Grenville & Repplier, Agnes & Walsh, Thomas & Kolars, Mary & Boddington, Ernest Fearby & Meadows, George D. & Will, Allen Sinclair
BOOKS Rainbow Countries of Central America, by Wallace Thompson. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $5.00. Mauresques, by C. P. Hawkes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $3.00. Travel...
...IN FORMER years, the critics were accustomed to bemoan the lack of fresher books on Spain and the Spanish-American countries...
...Luke's life is guided by the sad wisdom of the martyred Venerable Father Whitebread and inspired by the fortitude and charity of the Venerable Richard Langhorne...
...It is by no means a fantasy, he says, that in another century the world may be governed from Geneva or Moscow as a super-state...
...Jesus lived on earth nearly 2,000 years ago...
...It makes all the difference in the world what you believe, because belief is the spring of action...
...Hutton's Spain...
...Gongora, whom many Spanish critics consider the greatest poet produced by their modern civilization, also fares rather poorly at Mr...
...He paints the great Virginian as vain, unintellectual, fond of adulation and power, a materialist, a general whose successes were owing to his subordinates...
...Hughes brings Washington only to his thirtieth year...
...Yet this in turn would contain the seeds of dissolution, and nationalism might have a rebirth, with insurrectos venting their displeasure at a super-state, and a new cycle of wars starting...
...Mr...
...Internationalism was hardly in existence, save in the theories of philosophers and the hopes of foreign traders...
...Allen Sinclair Will...
...These will be sent upon request...
...Here is the terrifying prospect as the author states it, that is, terrifying unless one peeps at the chapter title, The Reductio ad Absurdum, printed above the page: "The world will escape the blight of war when man has ceased to be human...
...Titus Oates, "the best believed man in England...
...Daniel Quayne, like so many of the tragedies of real life and of fiction, is a tragedy of sex, but the author's sense of fundamental values in human character together with his instinct as a literary artist have kept his story clear of the merely physical...
...Travel and Adventure in Many Lands, by Cecil Gosling...
...Spain, heroic, then glorious, then luxurious, and then decaying—spread out across the seas in proud indifference to the opinion of the outer world...
...If not the League of Nations, what...
...then up the Coast as far as San Francisco, where Chinatown calls the Spanish maestro, with its pharmacopoeia of graveyard chicories deriving "their sap from the rotting mould of the 'ancestors,' they possess marvelous curative powers in the treatment of tuberculosis"—that fantastic land of San Francisco!—Hawaii and "the Isles of Love" are next on the itinerary, and still we are only starting toward the Chinalands and Japanese blossom festivals which the cruise of the Franconia will reach on schedule time...
...He has simply stripped the subject of the cherry-tree, plaster-saint atmosphere in which it has been enwrapped by a long line of sentimental biographers beginning with Pastor Weems...
...He is frank with opinions which the reader is at liberty to accept or reject...
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...RUPERT HUGHES has of recent years been officiating with probably, to him, satisfying results, at the altar of the movies, and previous to that he was the author of a number of best-sellers...
...Will he change...
...Daniel Quayne, by J. S. Fletcher...
...His ways of thought are not of the slightest interest to the Latin American, excepting as they may be adapted to helping him solve his own national problems...
...Thus Sir Ian Hamilton, in his recent thoughtful work entitled The Millennium?, sees hope of enduring peace "if only the Anglo-Celts and Americans hold together...
...A look into the pages of The Monk, that fertile source of so much stupid melodrama and 160 foolish maundering: the side-lights of Lever's novels on the Peninsular War: the average traveler's tales and anecdotes will reveal this implied inferiority, not only of Spanish life, but of its arts and its mentality...
...Alfonso the Sage and Other Spanish Essays, by J. B. Trend...
...The list might be extended, for historical essays treating of this subject have been rather numerous since 1914...
...She had her faith, her art and letters, her ancient families, and codes of honor—a vast Hispanic civilization, self-satisfied and in its own mind sufficient for itself...
...The road I was on was just the same as a thousand other roads," is the first sentence of the book...
...Since wars can be reduced, why not show a better way than the League offers...
...If you earnestly believe that you are on the right road when you are not, every step you take leads you farther and farther away from where you ought to be...
...New York: Boni and Liveright...
...among them the little-known Francis Ledwidge, who "gave his merry life away," and with it the promise of fame, in the Flemish trenches...
...He is apparently content to turn his spot-light on the situation and end his function there...
...That virtue at least can be granted it...
...and strange, rhymed prayers that protect the house by day and night...
...but this song should survive...
...Mary Kolars...
...There is an air of art, leisure, and sport in these pages that makes them very interesting reading...
...Carter's glass through which one sees as the pages are turned...
...in the Basque countries, the characteristic music, the pelota and ancient masquerades...
...In the way of information and study it cannot be compared to Mr...
...G. Lowes Dickinson, in War, Its Nature, Cause and Cure, contends that a whole-hearted stand for the abolition of war is the first step...
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...Woodward is not a Chesterton, and what it becomes is only an insincere sop thrown to the common sense of his readers...
...Woodward, like Mr...
...Sinclair Lewis and Mr...
...And then he ends it all by declaring that "in many ways he was a great man—not only great, but very great...
...Dozing and impractical pacifists will find much in these pages to disturb their complacency...
...The reader follows, through the young hero's growing awareness of conditions about him, the development of the antiCatholic attitude from the moderate stage of heavy fines and public contempt to the riots and wholesale persecution that followed the death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey...
...Carter exhibits no symptoms of being a programmist or an uplifter of any sort...
...Woodward thinks about the times of which he is writing, and what he thinks is apparently the cheap snap-judgment of a man setting out to prove a case...
...The story which moves against this background is extremely, indeed impressively, simple...
...Woodward done...
...A great abbey arose, and two round towers that long resisted the ravages of time and war...
...166...
...Hughes has not written a book to shock the bourgeois...
...It is serious, scholarly, and unbiased...
...Johnson that the idle fancies of young people count for little, and that most marriages would be as happy if the Lord Chancellor arranged them...
...And if this criticism is personal, they have only themselves to blame...
...In 544 Saint Kieran built the monastery of Clonmacnoise, and for a thousand years its monks lived and taught by the broad, slow waters of the Shannon...
...Sally Fairfax, the wife of his best friend, even that as a young man he broke his parole, do not take away from the superb firmness of his character, his unselfishness, his essential integrity—those things which made him far more than a brilliant man, which he was not—which made him a great man and a hero...
...Geqrge d Meadows_ (The article on M. Paul Claudel, by Jules-Bois, which was announced for publication in the present issue, will appear next week in The Commonweal of December 22—The Editors...
...The great Spanish empire of Carlos V and the Phillips is constantly contrasted with small kingdoms and the little lineages of their rulers...
...After reading the chapter on the Cunliffe wedding, we are disposed to believe with Dr...
...They are not soulless photographs, but reproductions of sketches and etchings which express in every line the picturesqueness of the town, the sombre beauty of the country...
...Whatever else may be denied, there can be no question concerning the joyousness of the adventures recounted...
...It is such a consideration that gives Wallace Thompson's studies—Rainbow Countries of Central America—their full value of freshness and reassurance...
...it has simply enlarged his pity for those who think to •escape from themselves and from the everpursuing Hound of Heaven by the denial of the existence of sin...
...Thus many who have a superficial knowledge of comparative religions will often say: 'One religion is as good as another.' It simply is not so...
...Mr...
...Happily the literature of a country is indestructible...
...Trend's hands...
...Revolutions and mountain crossings...
...Under his guidance one takes a journey of observation around the world, with its spots of irritation, its incongruity of interests, seen as under a magnifying glass through which the bacteria of unrest appear ceaselessly at work...
...Perhaps, for most authors treating of the subject, this would be the first consideration...
...and the picture of a Midland bog, painted by Paul Henry, is so starkly beautiful that any man's heart might break with homesickness when the streets of New York close in upon him, and he recalls its level loveliness...
...George Washington: The Image and the Man, by W. E. Woodward...
...And in the boy who "once had dreams of Douay," the tension, the expectation, tragic yet exalted, grows and grows until it finally breaks on his death-bed with the revelation that he has at last found that "life" which he has sought...
...Woodward's book is readable...
...His chapter on Fray Luis de Leon, one of the greatest Christian poets, seems based upon a cursory reading of Aubrey Bell's Luis de Leon, with but little regard to the works of Padre Garcia and Muinoz or the Dominican scholar, Getino...
...Yet it is always Mr...
...Our adventurer, who holds firmly to the core of Christianity, is not afraid of being thought out-of-date, rather, he would have Christians go backward, drawing ever nearer to the Word made Flesh...
...in southern Spain, the dancing-girls, the fiestas, the tiltings and bull-fighting...
...Gosling's book is a valuable contribution to this class of literature...
...He gives us a correct summary of this nebulous master of Salamanca...
...Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company...
...Trend brings with him a maturity and simplicity which contrast with the showiness and unconsidered enthusiasms of Mr...
...The high and topless walls of the great tower of Clonmacnoise enthrall Mr...
...An English traveler gives us, in Mauresques, his impressions of North Africa, and various parts of Spain from Teneriffe and Seville to the Basque provinces of the North...
...the facts are otherwise...
...Frank...
...His book, the model of other and even finer works, is still the foundation of the international understanding of Spain...
...If with the facts at his hand, Mr...
...THE author of this book gives evidence of being a keen observer, a student of history and diplomacy and an ironical philosopher whose zest for life is not concealed beneath an exterior of pessimism, which wears very thin in spots...
...Vicente Blasco Ibafiez's world-wanderings are far and wide...
...were it only for its clear and jocund note, as elemental as the pipes of Pan: "And wondrous, impudently sweet, Half of him passion, half conceit, The blackbird whistles down the street...
...The author's experience in the Department of State at Washington and in the diplomatic service at Rome and Constantinople has given him a solid foundation of first-hand information as a supplement to his studies and travels...
...England, rival in world trade, in religious warfare and racial antipathies, was not behindhand in its study of Spanish failings, in its propagation of scandalous legends, and the spread of general distrust in Spanish honor and abilities...
...Grenville Vernon...
...From Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador, and Guatemala, he hands us direct pictures of life, customs, trade, and history...
...The elephant looked his loathing of Cluan, but in the vulture's unwavering eye there was hatred more abysmal...
...It is no panacea...
...rubber expeditions, mining camps, in short, the usual category of chapters provided in the reminiscences of diplomatic agents and gentlemen of leisure on tour or on mission to the newer nations of America...
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...No doubt a thousand men might have traveled on it unseemingly...
...Carter says, the Catholic Church is "the greatest single force for peace," though he is by no means disposed to eulogy of all things Catholic...
...Woodward has set out to shock the bourgeois, but such shockings to be effective must be carried out by those whose spirit is not bourgeois itself...
...Blasco Ibanez has made a well-known itinerary more attractive to us all...
...but one can be in accord with the praises he awards to Pio Baroja—one of the greatest geniuses of today...
...a Spaniard who seems to be more comfortable abroad than at home, where his compatriots regard him with a dubious valuation of his art as well as his political views...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...But Mr...
...Woodward is sincere in his estimate of Washington, the real commentary is not on Washington, but on Mr...
...Information on binding will be given upon application to the offices of The Commonweal...
...Daniel Quayne is a powerful study of a tragedy in a rural English setting, among the farmers and farm laborers of Yorkshire...
...but he has a wide acquaintance with Irish letters, and a happy knack of lighting upon old half-forgotten scraps of verse—charms against evil, tinkers' rhymes, and the 162 lamentations of young wives carried off by the fairy folk...
...their misinterpretations of Spanish motives, their disregard of Spanish mastery in art and philosophy, their love for the aesthetic decay and dirt of fallen cities and disordered institutions...
...Rear Admiral Niblack, in Why Wars Come, suggests that an application to states of the rules of morality observed among individuals would afford a basis for reducing armaments...
...our Prescotts, Parkmans, Merrimans and others present a truly vast picture of Spanish kingdoms and colonies in Europe and overseas, without the painstaking reserves and limitations of the scholars of other European countries outside of the Peninsula...
...r I * HE name of J. S. Fletcher has been so completely asso¦*¦ dated with mystery stories that the present volume will be something of a surprise for his readers...
...It is true that we are indebted to the Huttons, Fords, and Murrays for excellent interpretations and elucidations and our publishers, in rilling up the gaps in their lists of Spanish books of information, may have some reasons to continue importing these books from England...
...Wars will continue despite the League and perhaps because of it," for the council is, in effect, composed of selfishly inclined representatives of the great powers—the same crowd of diplomatic shufflers dressed in new raiment...
...If a religion is false, the most severely orthodox are the furthest from the truth...
...there is a vision of "that terrible Padre Maiz" which reveals a mild gentleman heroically taking the place of the banished Jesuits of the Paraguayan misiones...
...We do not need a new religion," he proclaims, "we need to practise the one we have...
...Whence come wars and rumors of wars...
...in His ideas and teachings He is 10,000 years ahead of this present time...
...Mauresques, in its pleasing style, is a book to stand beside Mr...
...ANNOUNCEMENT of a book of adventures by William Lyon Phelps is assurance of a volume vivid in outline and vivacious as well as veracious in development of detail...
...Adventures and Confessions, by William Lyon Phelps...
...Thompson's volume presents a model for American authors of travel books on our southern brethren...
...There is a warmth and enthusiasm in these disclosures of how life in every aspect has been made more full of gusto, "more abundant" to one who lives it under the motivation of the force-giving fact of the Incarnation which enfold the reader engrossed in the reasons given for the acceptance of the great assurance...
...What the world now has of him," says Mr...
...Carter does not mean that wars cannot be reduced...
...A fine perception for the typical points in Africa, for instance, the fantasias, the falcon-hunts, and desert traders...
...Alfonso the Sage and Other Spanish Essays is a book of literary studies, inspired by some knowledge of Spain of today and some reading, if not profound research, on the chief literary figures of her literature...
...Lytton Strachey...
...any reader who can estimate the tremendous scorn with which Menendez y Pelayo discusses the entry of George Barrow into Madrid in company with a band of gypsies, the cheap mocking of that famous rogue in treating Spanish life and conditions for his pious readers in England, will grasp the aspect of intelligent Spaniards regarding this foreign interpretation of their country...
...Descriptions which recall something of Father Benson's terrible vividness are given of Newgate Prison and Tyburn Gallows, 165 and a detailed account is included of Richard Langhorne's trial in the Sessions House of the Old Bailey, and of the evidence of Dr...
...Irish ruins seem older and more ruinous than those of England or Wales...
...Has man changed...
...for the camels, "their sad, proud heads lifted high, as if they had sight of the deserts beyond," for the cowed lions, and the vulture that was called an eagle...
...Religion, to this writer, has not hampered humor or put him out of touch with sinners...
...He has understanding and pity to spare for the unhappy animals in a traveling circus...
...The man who can write of Braddock's defeat with the thrilling effect and pathos with which Mr...
...Few statements are more absurd or dangerous," he says, "than the frequently heard remark: 'It does not make any difference what you believe, so long as you believe it.' You might just as well say that there is no difference between truth and falsehood...
...But because Professor Phelps believes with Saint Thomas Aquinas that faith is good, but faith with knowledge is better, he minces no words in scrapping certain superficialities which are submitted by the unthinking for the acceptance of a generation which does not desire to think...
...Arrangements have been made for binding volume IV in leather of cloth...
...Perhaps by this statement Mr...
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...But there was a time when he was a serious historian, and as chief assistant editor of the Historian's History of the World he bade fair to make his mark among American writers of history...
...It may be noticed here that the fullest concept of Spanish imperialism has come from American scholarship...
...A spirit breathes through the book which is not often found in fiction, a spirit compounded of the sadness, the gentleness, and the strength of those English heroes who suffered everything for the Faith...
...Zulu wars and Boer rebellions are varied with bull-fights, and Paraguayan dances...
...George Washington: The Human Being and the Hero, by Rupert Hughes...
...One might form one's own opinions more modestly, of course, with a good typewriter at one's elbow...
...Because this book is a record of the greatest of adventures— the maintenance and development of individual religious faith founded on reason—the methods of the distinguished Yale professor make it singularly persuasive and pertinent to the times...
...Spain's earliest critics were the Italians, who vied with her in classic culture, in the government of the Church, on the field of battle: when the new world was discovered, and its riches began to pour across the Atlantic, she raised her head, the proud empress of a world, which groveled at her feet, and waited its chance to destroy her omnipotence...
...PADRAIC COLUM'S Road Round Ireland suggests from time to time Hilaire Belloc's Path to Rome...
...from Mentone, "where the buds of autumn sway at the touch of the soft breeze," to Cuba, where the smile of Havana "is to be found, not in its walks, its buildings, nor in the animation of its streets, but in the temperament of its people...
...With Ticknor the scene changed into a fuller revelation of Spanish greatness...
...It deals with the adventures of Luke Furrow, the silversmith's apprentice, who went up to London to seek life and found it in death...
...In reality, Mr...
...A Novelist's Tour of the World, by Vicente Blasco Ibanez...
...New York: William Morrow and Company...
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...Tourists, recognized for the most part by the Spanish as Ingleses, continue to give their views of Spain and her old colonies...
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...To him Hamilton was a worshipper of worldly success, and Washington a man who today would be the head of a big business...
...The title page and index for volume IV of The Commonweal are now ready...
...old Celtic songs, delicately translated...
...through the Panama Canal, "which is beginning to appear far too small and insignificant, to use an Americanism, for a nation as fond of moving about freely as the United States...
...Mr...
...Hughes does ought to make Trenton and Yorktown fascinating...
...Thompson's remark on the attitude of the native to the foreigner, presents the intellectual problem clearly: "Central-American thought is an entity and there is no advantage ever gained by the high-andmighty effort of the Anglo-Saxon to make it easy for them to accept his ways of thought...
...He had followed the banners of Ghengis Khan, and now he sat between dispirited lions, and a sullen slave of an elephant...
...New York: Charles' Scribner's Sons...
...It might be unkind to ask the reasons for the change of his activity, and this reviewer will simply express his gratitude that Mr...
...the great period of the Revolution and the Presidency is yet to come, and the following volumes will be looked forward to with intense interest...
...Colum's spirit, as the high and topless walls of the tower of Coucy (vastest of French ruins) enthralled the spirits of all who saw it before the evil hour when the German sappers found pastime in destroying what the wide world could never replace...
...Despite all this, the League represents "an idea of astounding vitality, the conviction that the world has passed the age of nationalism...
...The faster and more confidently you walk, the worse off you are...
...The use of Luke's consciousness as the focal centre of events and impressions is particularly welljudged, since it imparts to the story that sense of reality most authoritatively conferred by the record of an eye-witness...
...New York: George H. Doran Company...
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...J. B. Trend hardly conveys the full importance of this monarch to scholarship, religion and civilization in early Spain...
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...it does not blink at Washington's faults, but it leaves him none the less the hero...
...Ernest Fearby Boddington...
...Therefore it seems only to be regretted that American readers are still for the most part to rest under the English and French interpretations of Spain in its culture and history, its arts and economics...
...Woodward evidently dislikes aristocrats, and this dislike distorts his judgment both of Washington and Hamilton...
...Hughes has written a book at once able and sincere— what has Mr...
...At the Sign of the Silver Cup, by Helen Atter'tdge...
...If it be suggested that this may be dealing whimsically with a serious subject, the rejoinder is that the light touch in some parts of the book is one of its main attractions...
...Her period is the reign of that monarch sometimes called "The Merry," when the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was offered up behind locked doors, when priests lived their normal lives in hiding, and when enterprising "discoverers" increased prestige and pocketbook by the simple process of swearing to the wholesale atrocities committed by "Papists...
...Hughes, Mr...
...One uses the word tragedy in a deeper sense than is implied by a reference to the murder of "Quiet" Campion and his mistress and the execution of the unfortunate and disillusioned Daniel...
...Fletcher has very aptly subtitled his novel, A Morality, for with a realism that never forgets the restraint of genuine art, it depicts the moral tragedy of a naturally good man's deterioration under the influence of an illicit passion and the downfall of another naturally good man when suddenly confronted with the baseness of those whom he had loved and trusted...
...The illustrations of The Road Round Ireland add greatly to its value and its charm...
...The persecution which follows him from the time of his apprenticeship to Reuben Buckle to his eventual ignominious death, is a soberly authentic record of what Catholics endured during the middle sixteen hundreds...
...Many of these adventures are implicated in historical fact...
...He exhibits insight, all the more welcome because it is based on present conditions, into the strength and weakness of the international processes of conciliation...
...The work of the colporteurs alone resulted in an accumulation of slander and libel...
...Trend's volume is little more than a Spanish note-book...
...Agnes Repplier...
...The best chapters of The Road Round Ireland are devoted to Irish folk-lore, well told...
...Man Is War, by John Carter...
...But to the regardful eye all roads lead through the wonderful thing called life...
...Our intelligentsia are today writing much foolishness about psychoanalysis, and yet this is a method which might be applied not without effectiveness to our modern image-breakers...
...The author predicts that after a generation or so, major wars are likely to flare up in the cockpits of international rivalry—Eastern Europe, the Near East and the Far East...
...The mass of rational men who seek peace by attainable means— unnumbered millions in a war-weary world—will not fear to make a survey of the obstacles to peace...
...That Washington made military mistakes, that he spelled poorly, and lost his temper, that he probably married for money, and was afflicted with a hopeless love for Mrs...
...We follow the wandering and rain-soaked author into the hospitable cottages of the poor, where the turf glows on the hearth, where food is spread and tales are told, and he sleeps by the fire until morning...
...Into this work he has put the zest of the creative artist, and Braddock emerges a character at once vital and pathetic...
...duck-shooting on Lake Titicaca, Bolivia...
...He grants him courage and honesty, but belittles both these qualities...
...In his view the League of Nations is merely an evolution or a mechanism of the old diplomacy...
...Unamuno is rather more to Mr...
...When the British Tommies turned the Hymn of Hate into a regimental joke, they did something to the once serious sin of hating which weakened its meaning and malevolence...
...We listen while marriages are being negotiated by hard-bargaining parents who make no doubt that their children will be docile, and accept or reject as they are bidden...
...His book is of value, not for what it teaches us of Washington, but for what it shows is the attitude of a certain section of our journalistic writers, who to liberate themselves of their own inhibitions have adopted the method, but, alas, not the manner of Mr...
...He has called his resources to the task of exposing with an abundance of definite details the potential causes of war that inhere in imperfect human society, and in doing so he is much more the guide who points the way to an approximation to peace than the alarmist who bids the world arm for inevitable struggles...
...Colum is not a critic...
...In the other chapters devoted to letters and art, one gains the impression that Mr...
...He has produced a thoroughly readable book, tightly packed with information, about the present state of the world as bearing on the likelihood of future conflicts...
...He does it effectively...
...Spanish politics was a favorite subject in the hands of radical envoys from London and Paris socialist groups, with a result that was far from satisfactory to travelers with some ten or twenty years of experience, who were not unacquainted with the charm and ease of life in the Peninsula and were antagonized in their sympathies by the special pleadings of revolutionary writers and census-takers...
...Nor may one omit a word of praise for the fidelity with which the setting has been presented—rural Yorkshire, most typical of England's agricultural regions, a generation ago...
...His tributes to Azorin will also be appreciated by those who realize that a very great author is being overlooked by our American Hispanists, on account of the very merits for which he is great: modesty, moderation, and maturity of feeling for art and life...
...The terrible "Curse" on Bruadar and Smith and Glinn would have been appalling had we only read it before the day of Lissauer...
...He doubts that these conflicts will become fused into a world war, but he holds that there is much to show that if a world war comes, the United States will be drawn in...
...MISS ATTERIDGE'S locale is London...
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...In it we see the small landholders, decently comfortable, but discontented after the fashion of farmers all the world over ("Nature hates a farmer...
...It is direct American reaction from countries that have been relegated too long to the categories of impossible problems...
...Woodward thought to deliver a masterstroke of paradox, but Mr...
...The older travelers and raconteurs, the Fords, Murrays, Barrows, Gautiers, Huttons, etcetera, had voyaged over the lands of the hidalgo and left impressions which, except for the special student, had little interest for the up-to-date voyager and lover of Spanish art, music, architecture, literature, and life...
...They fit admirably with the text, which is, as all descriptive texts should be, both gay and melancholy...
...P. J- Kenedy and Sons...
...but there is a Spaniard at large collecting impressions of the globe under the title, A Novelist's Tour of the World...
...The old cart-horses with drooping heads, and the ragged men in charge of the cages interest this all-observing Irishman as deeply as the acrobats, and the girl swinging round the ring, an embodiment of energy and incarnated will...
...The same thing may be said of his discussion of Ramon Lully...
...Unlike Mr...
...The picture of Swift's birthplace makes us sorry for little Jonathan...
...the pages on James Joyce deny him this attribute...
...is a significant saying...
...Hughes's rehabilitation of the character and abilities of Braddock is in particular done in masterly fashion...
...It is written in the short, snappy style of the newspaperman, and it seems to have been influenced by that school of thinkers of which Mr...
...Nobody senses this disproportion in our English literature...
...Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo, the Gautiers, Merimee and Barres, of the romantic school, and some of their misguided followers in Spain itself...
...Colum, "is but his first song-offering...
...but a too hearty expression of impotent hatred has been a trifle ridiculous ever since...
...There is nothing in the world more impressive than the ruins of a round tower...
...If these image-breakers insist upon eating the cake of what they proclaim their "truthfulness," they must not object if the rest of us insist on their eating it to the end...
...Woodward's own type of mind...
...He writes rather as one who views the human panorama with no illusions— the lines of political and ethnic relationships, the whirling of the machine of diplomacy, trade rivalry, national self-love, the madcap ideas of some impractical reformers, the halfwisdom of others...
...Cecil Gosling, formerly the British Minister to Bolivia, and in the British consular service in Germany and Czechoslovakia, has reduced his highly interesting experiences, for the most part South American, into a book of Travel and Ad161 venture in Many Lands...
...Though this is only the first volume of his life of Washington, in it he has given what is probably the truest picture of the great Virginian yet presented in a biography...
...Woodward's book is only partially about Washington...
...Emancipation from one form of religion is sometimes the first requisite step toward a fruitful religious life...
...Trend's style than the ancient masters...
...The Englishman's book is more imaginative, but the Irishman's book is more appealing in its simple descriptions of very simple things...
...There are also many apt quotations from Irish poets and playwrights...
...He means that all war cannot be avoided—and who is there that is hopeful enough to predict otherwise...
...Waldo Frank's Virgin Spain, although as a traveler Mr...
...It is really an essay on what 164 Mr...
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...Whether it was a belated sense of fun which made them do this thing, or a subconscious recognition of man's essential insignificance, we shall never know...
...H. L. Menken, is in violent revolt against accepted standards, and the suspicion grows that, like them, he is also in revolt against the bourgeois that is in his own soul...
...A Spanish king or queen, not a whit better or worse than a German, French or Hanoverian monarch, is very easily metamorphosed into a mastodon of vices and tyrannies...
...163 He does not write like a prophet of evil weighed down with the significance of his own message...
...Hughes has returned to a field more worthy of him and of his talents...
...Hendrick Willem Van Loon is the most conspicuous example, though it lacks that gentleman's sense of tradition which saves him at times despite himself...
...and the small tradesmen, very well-to-do in spite of long credits...
...France, for all her alliances, showed the jealousy of the North for the South: Africa began with the Pyrenees, was the phrase of the Gallic nobles and populace, and in the pages of their literature we may encounter an unfailing scorn and enmity...
...Colum's sympathies are broad and warm...
...The title chapter on Alfonso X is not a very impressive study of the rare old philosopher and poet, who muddled, as well as regulated, the affairs of Castile and Leon from 1252 to 1284...
...There are undoubtedly readers who will ask why the book presents no program...
...The Road Round Ireland, by Padraic Colum...
...The time has come for readers to appreciate more clearly that there is need for American points of view, American interpretations of Spain, direct and without the intervening screen, whether it be sensed or not, of the third dimension in these foreign observers of Spanish conditions...
...7 Thomas Walsh...
Vol. 5 • December 1926 • No. 6
