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Vernon, Grenville & Shuster, George N. & Brégy, Katherine & Daly, James J. & Gill, Roderick & Blassingame, Lurton & Martens, Frederick H. & Brennecke, Ernest Jr. & Skinner, Henrietta Dana & Fisher, D. W.
the Dybbuk has entered into her and speaks through her lips, one must have the peculiar sense of heating a man's voice come through the mouth of a woman. Miss Ellis encompassed this illusion with...
...The chapter on America is delightful--and disappointing...
...It is good reading, and we are the better for the healthy fun of Lincoln's books...
...A LTHOUGH they do not come to us with quite the freshness and joy of Cap'n Eft, and Mr...
...her Imogen, first produced in Peoria, Illinois...
...She was human: her body and her mind were active within the seclusion of her decencies and taste...
...Miss Linley makes a brave effort, but falls far short of the power which Miss Ellis contributed to these scenes...
...Vhen one is traveling," he writes, "convictions are mis-laid as easily as spectacles...
...Mr...
...Miss Lowell was a spinster, with well-founded pride in her ancestry, content with her family fortune and surrounded by the bourgeois comforts, as well as the dosed--peeping--lattices of New England respectability...
...Perhaps Miss Lowell was not over-womanly in this act and, perhaps also, her critics on this point are not over-manly or rational in their spasms of horror...
...I recommend to Mr...
...It must have taken a lot of sternness to pass him over...
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...T ROILUS AND CRISEYDE, the most attractive of Chaucer's narrative poems and in all likelihood one of the finest stories in English verse, has hitherto been available to students only in imperfect texts...
...New York: D. Appleton and Company...
...Mr...
...Our country is so vast that a writer has to have rather exceptional opportunities as well as merit before he can get anything like general Catholic recognition...
...RoomueK GILl...
...Alas for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Amy Lowell, that they should fall upon a time when in the full blast of biograpt.ical measles the most unlikely and unsympathetic writers can push themselves into the Freudian arenas and even without the usual surgical gloves will lustily proceed to carve and dissect the remains of the great, the near-great or the notorious for the critical plaudits of their friends...
...Perhaps it is only natural that it should be so...
...She was plain yet, no doubt, desired the love of her fellows: she felt that her physique would have to be reinforced by a gesture of authority if it were to produce the effect she desired...
...Professor Perry proceeds to unravel recent philosophy into three or four chief threads...
...this is the southern Negro revealing himself...
...His diaries reveal his constant growth in character and true scholarship: his regrets over the minor misapprehensions, and provincialisms, of his more youthful works, and his desire to amend in every way any expression that might overmuch shade the light of greater truths...
...NEVITA, BLY will arise the generation "which knew not I Marlowe, and not alone in view of that fact, but also for the satisfaction of the generations which have known her, the present study of Julia Marlowe's personality and art is more than welcome...
...but this shows itself in the arrangement of the whole and in emphasis, and not so much in opinions or comments, overtly expressed...
...LURTON BLASSINGAME...
...Source materials, date of com-position and the history of the text are dealt with conserva-tively, the author's primary object being to evaluate the opin- ions of other investigators and so to arrive at tenable conclu-sions...
...Maynard's new anthology, The Book of Modern Catholic Verse, will be delightful surprise: as if one came upon unwonted constellations of anemones and violets in familiar meadows...
...And he was always so grateful for a kind word cast to his muse...
...If Mr...
...Russell's volume a permanence beyond that accorded a good biography of a gifted actress who has achieved a reputation as one of the comparatively few great interpreters of the Shakespearian drama in the United States, is his valuable and suggestive comment on the Marlowe r61es in connection with the plays in which they occur...
...GOUVERNEUR PAUXVlNG is an American writer living in Europe...
...I should be surprised if other notable omissions were to be found in this splendid collection...
...HENKIETTA DASA SmSSER...
...Huxley, it appears, is a very healthy young man, after all...
...her first Rosalind, given (1889) in a dingy Philadelphia house which staged Bertha, the Sewing-Machine Girl as an ideal advance on cheap vaudeville...
...It was a day of personal acrimony no doubt--apparently unlike our pure today...
...The sociolo-gist will find his work greatly facilitated by the lucid explana- tory comments of the collectors...
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...Walter Duggan, Helen Coburn, and Anne Schmidt are the particular bright lights of the performance...
...Though it is not a stirring tale of the ocean, with heroic rescues, and plots of wreckers, like Rugged Waters that recently preceded it, yet the Big Mogul himself had once been mate on a sailing vessel before turning to local politics, and becoming the rich man and cockof-the-walk in his native town...
...and he eats his humble pie meekly and gracefully...
...Professor Root has earned the gratitude of numberless students and set a standard for American scholarship...
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...Huxley was entertained altogether too much...
...Pratt, Lincoln's Cape Cod stories are always warmly welcome...
...The uncultured southern Negro work- ing on the chain-gang or in the cotton-field sings with a naivet6 which is astonishing and, to the Puritan, occasionally shocking, drawing his images from the physical world of his daily life...
...Miss Linley's voice in the earlier scenes is not so much ethereal as doll-like...
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...Her position was unassailable in society: therefore her household linen was washed with a privacy that can hardly be appreciated below Fourteenth Street, New York...
...His personal character was certainly admirable...
...ERNEST BRENNECKE, JR...
...And he moves about among his materials with a sure gait, and what seems, to the reviewer at least, like sound judgment...
...As a poet, there is no doubt that her ability was moderate, but even an ordinary singer, like our ceaseless makers of poor paradoxes, will at times emit something that is worth listening to...
...FREDERICK H. MARTENS...
...She had good taste and plenty of opportunity to teach her lesshappily placed brethren the story of her findings in new literature...
...He was such a benignant godfather of poets...
...rialism...
...It consists, in the strict sense, in "the view that to be and to be known are one and the same...
...his is the virtue of a concrete, masculine style...
...It is a pleasure to note that the old notion of Chaucer as a poet who locked fingers with the reform (a notion toward the destruction of which Louise Imogen Guiney was one of With Him in Mind, by the Very Reverend Monsignor J. L. J. Kirlin...
...Can one be astonished...
...9 M. VZR~LL is an English contributor to American and British periodicals...
...The present book completes the series by showing how love of our Eucharistic God--whether expressed in the Holy Hour, in meditations for Communion or in private devotion--may both explain and be explained by every other fundamental doc- trine of our Creed...
...and A Modern Book of Catholic Verse...
...What should give Mr...
...What the new naturalism is to be, it would be folly to predict...
...Taking for his motto the opening of Bacon's Essay of Truth: " 'What is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer," he made valiant efforts to remain aloof, keen, merciless, swift and impatient...
...It arises as a protest against, and as a denial of, the foregoing idealism, without relapsing into a mere mate...
...The Book of Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer...
...That Troilus and Criseyde has a moral significance has long since been taken for granted...
...by /lldous Huxley...
...For him, and for other of the finer spirits of the middle-ages, this verdict implied no lugubrious doctrine of nar- row Puritanism...
...HENRIETTA DANA SKINNER is the author of Espirltu Santo...
...The Big Mogul, by Joseph C. Lincoln...
...The surface-qualities of the book are a joy to the reader, as might have been expected...
...As for Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, they are almost the dark unfathomed caves of the elegy's ocean of oblivion...
...But quite aside from the personal equation, they could scarcely fail to command the attention of the intelligent Catholic reader, either lay or re-ligious...
...and Carmichael...
...this could only be difficult in face of a certain depredation of the poet's merits, and with a lack of allowance for the limitations in time and place of his formative years...
...Sz.oo...
...and this, although he has dropped twenty-four poets that were included in the Kilmer anthology...
...His books include Drums of Defeat...
...Miss Lowell had experience enough with authors and critics to know that it was necessary to be cold: her love for her flock of sheep-dogs, joined to a crystallized paganism in her heart, resulted in their euthanasia rather than in the back-yard climax that is the fate of so many discarded pets...
...But any lover of imagery and chanting melody can find delight in the volume...
...Beginning with 1876, when Julia Marlowe toured as a child-actress in Pinafore, the story of her career is told, not as a mere book of reminiscence, but with specific reference to the plays in which she appeared...
...and Poets and Pilgrims...
...Later, when the Dybbuk speaks from within, there is a change in the regis- ter, but not in the personality of her voice...
...For in these twelve chapters the articles of the Apostles' Creed---simple, stupendous, inexhaustible symbol of our Christian faith !--are discussed with sincerest devotion, with a wealth of scriptural and historical illustration and a fine knowledge of the human heart...
...Thus wrote an irritated contributor (perhaps it was James or John Stuart Mill, or the ponderous Jerem~ Bentham himself) in the austere pages of the Westminster Review, al- most exactly one hundred years ago...
...Even at home Catholic writers are a loosely strung brotherhood...
...This doctrine, absurd as it may sound to unphilosophical ears, has great power in it, though perhaps less today than it had twenty-five or thirty years ago...
...Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University o[ North Carolina Press...
...KENNETH gLADE ALLING was formerly editor of the poetry magazine, The Measure...
...T HIS is not a book for which one can prophesy the lively and wide-spread response now being given The Story of Philosophy...
...Some four or five years ago, Monsignor Kirlin conceived the idea that "as the Holy Eucharist is the centre of all spir- itual life," so "a serious consideration of our popular devo-tions in relation to the life of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacra- ment" must infallibly enrich Catholic thought and feeling...
...SPEER STEAHAN, an American poet, is professor of English in the Catholic University of America...
...but we could not help thinking also that "Night hangs yet heavy on the lids of Day...
...Odum and Guy B. Johnson...
...and, third, their reformulation in terms calculated to convince a modem mind...
...T HE recent sudden death of Monsignor Kirlin, diocesan director of the Priests' Eucharistic League in Philadelphia, attaches a certain tragic interest to these meditations which had scarcely taken on the permanence of print when their author passed out into eternity...
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...Wood's diabolically clever work, the reader is bound to arrive at the conclusion that a lady is a lady only as long as the older conventions are respected...
...Negro Workaday Songs will be of most value to students of musical origins, of folk-lore, of sociology...
...l~v...
...The wild dance of the beggars in the second act, which was one of the most menacing scenes ever staged, has lost something of its former magic...
...The Book of Modern Catholic Verse, compiled by Theodore Maynard...
...Obviously, a poet enjoys in the premises certain undeniable rights and con-siderable authority...
...I do not mean that her perform- ance is a bad one...
...He is the father of American literature...
...Here is truly an essential conversion of the jesting Pilate who displayed such uncompromising, disdainful, fundamental scepticism in his mordant Antic Hay...
...edited by Robert Kilburn Root...
...And Brentano, as Professor Perry points out, derived largely from the scholastics, and from Aristotle...
...Y'~ATI~ERINE BRI~GY, critic and poet, is the author of The Poet's Chantry...
...Some New Englanders may regard him as a child among them "takin' notes...
...I N THE Metropolitan Museum there is a statue of Rodin's The Hand of God...
...These apt, critical studies, which will appeal to the intelligent theatre-goer, are enlivened by colorful glimpses of outstanding figures of the literary and theatrical world, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century...
...GR~NWLLE VERNON is a general contributor on musical and literary subjects to the American magazines...
...At least it will do this as regards philosophy in Europe and America in the last sixty or seventy-five years...
...Negro ICorkaday Songs, by Howard [,V...
...After all, in spite of his temper and arrogance, he is rather an old dear...
...This idea he expanded admirably in his preceding volumes, One Hour with Him, and Our Tryst with Him...
...Miss Ellis encompassed this illusion with amazing success...
...We remember wondering at the time how the poet, in the confusion and hardships of a military camp, could have managed to uncover so much Catholic excellence in the field of contemporary verse...
...Maynard...
...Out of this rather lumbering spedmen of New England culture, Clement Wood proceeds to carve a sort of ogress: he analyzes her motives, her utterances and opinions, like the criminal lawyers in a well-known murder case in southern New Jersey...
...It will be treasured as the final message of a zealous and cultured churchman who was also one of the most distinguished spiritual writers in this country...
...Gorman touches on this point: "Poe is on serious record as placing Henry [Longfellow] at the head of the American poets of his long generation...
...LURTON BLASSINGAME iS a New York journahst...
...More recently, Count Keyserling, in his Travel Diary ,,f a Philosopher, has presented us with the drama of an incorrigible, blas~ idealist, absorbing one for- eibm culture after another, and emerging as a still more ardent, and now a pugnacious, idealist, the leader of a new school of mystical wisdom...
...and his book, thinner in both bulk and essential content, is nevertheless a distinctly valuable record of the changes which strange contacts can effect on a supposedly hard intellectual surface...
...Bertrand Russell, the brilliant English realist, is closely akin to, if not actually derivative from, the Austrian realist Meinong and the German realist Husserl...
...New York: Henry Holt and Company...
...In scrutinizing these strands of recent thought the author displays what is, for an American writer at least, a truly astounding erudition as to what is going on in Germany, France, Italy and England, as well as America...
...Whereas the other book furnishes the reader an insight (and often a very good one) into personalities and isolated flashes of thought, this book is more likely to convey to him a sense of what philosophy is actually about, and where it is headed...
...His volume is of ample and generous dimensions...
...KATHERINE BREGy...
...Of particular interest are the remarks concerning Chaucer's reading and his method of revamping materials to conform with his ironic purposes...
...And this, it is fair to say, is the most hopeful sign in recent philosophy...
...HE most pernicious class of bookmakers are your l. travelers--they waste more of their own time, and of their readers, than any other set of idlers in society...
...And this is unfortunate...
...Already the latest scientific revolution seems to have had two effects upon popular and philosophieal thought: a new sense of cosmic immensity and complexity, and an obsolescence of Cartesian dualism...
...For my part, I should seriously question whether this fourth trend of thought is a bona fide species of philosophy, or a more or less crafty attempt to show the impossibility of any philosophy at all...
...And while these qualities are superfidally evi- dent throughout his narrative, his general conclusions, ex-pressed in his final pages, are of a different order...
...But having stepped into the place of an actress whose Leah was one of the finest renderings of an entire season, Miss Linley must face the cruel test of frank comparisons...
...With Amy Lowell one comes upon another problem of New England...
...but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced...
...New York: D. Appleton and Company...
...Rather it made for a serene Catholic tem-per, which could thoroughly enjoy and understand the world, while still recognizing its "vanity," which could retain its serenity because it did not take either the joys or the sor-rows of the world too seriously...
...New York: George H. Doratr Company...
...This does not bespeak much for Poe's idea of that generation...
...We have been all aware of a Catholic awakening after a long night in English letters...
...in a word, anything in any way improbable.' " So in recent times, neo-Thomism has come to mean, "first, a purification of Whomist doctrines...
...Gorman, with a gracious touch that gives the older reader an excruciating pang, "has not as yet reached that state where the psychological fac- tors are taken into consideration...
...She is rescued from an accident by a young man of the family of his chief political rival--a man with whom the Big Mogul has a long-standing feud...
...May-nard's volume contains 13o names...
...He is left a lonely widower in his big house, and for companionship adopts a long neglected niece...
...A crude, immature, childish world...
...It may well become a landmark in the development of a Catholic English literature...
...The Trumpet Shall Sound T HE American Laboratory Theatre, under the direction of Richard Boleslawsky, has presented as the third bill of its repertory season an allegorical play by Thornton L. Wilder along the not unfamiliar lines of the Servant in the House, and the Passing of the Third Floor Back...
...And old familiar names, like Eleanor C. Donnelly and Katharine Conway, do not appear at all...
...Longfellow was surely a superb figure in his time, a worthy ancestor, a remarkable literary scholar, a broad-minded man in an intolerant milieu...
...The activity directed to this end is going on with consider-able success in Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, and England...
...Even Father Russell has disappeared...
...White men complain that the attitude of the members of the colored races is not so respectful as it was...
...MAr LEwis, E. W. CHANnLEa, MARIa BLAKE, EVGAa DANIEL K~.MEa, and BORGHILD LUNDBERG LEE are contributors of poetry to the magazines...
...The text is, however, only one of the book's virtues...
...Louis University...
...Maynard's attention, if he should be called upon to issue a new edition of his anthology, the claims of young Irwin Russell...
...Anyone who can make a fairly successful effort to rally this scattered Catholic constituency and give it a glimpse of its collected resources will have done more than weave an idle garland for casual delectation...
...for that is the scope of this book...
...But, if the compiler, as in the present in-stance, be also a poet, disagreements must be warily entertained and may not be too positive in their expression...
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...These psychological factors, sometimes indistinguishable from modern prejudices, and social and intellectual limitations, bother Mr...
...I think we keep better posted about Catholic writers in England and Ireland than the Catholics in those countries do about ours...
...The image is strong in my mind after reading this collection, for there is an analogous situation: these workaday songs spring from the life-giving spirit of the race...
...By no means...
...BOOKS Philosophy of the Recent Past, by Ralpk Barton Perry...
...so that we find ourselves confronted by a new gargoyle, very largely the creation of Mr...
...In her final death scene, when, after the exorcism of the Dybbuk, her soul is veritably drawn from her body to join that of her lover, Miss Ellis made one see the struggle of spirit to free itself from matter, a heart-rending and yet triumphant moment...
...There is no evidence, so far as I know, of his Catholic religion outside of the registers of his school...
...The acting is unusually good throughout, under expert direction...
...And the latter studied at the University of Vienna, and were strongly influenced there by Franz Brentarto...
...Huxley knows how to describe with verbs and nouns...
...EESEST BP.ENNECKE, JR., is a literary critic and the author of a Life of Thomas Hardy...
...Then there is the middle-aged aunt, one of those shrewd, solid, fearless souls that seem to flourish on Cape Cod, and who stands up to the Big Mogul and tells him his faults straight to his face...
...and still retains its savor...
...After reading Mr...
...And under the broad heading of naturalism the author works in a brief discussion of the views of Darwin, Spencer, Comte, Mach, Poincar~, and Durkheim--which already are, as might be suspected, in large measure pass& One is sometimes led to suppose that idealism flourishes in Germany, and only there...
...Aldous Huxley, a grandson of the late-Victorian cham- pion of biological science, having made his reputation as an analytical novelist of considerable powers, has lately followed in Keyserling's wake around the world...
...There we have at once the materials for a romance, and what with horse-racing, and elections and finanda...
...and all their successors...
...The most seri- ous omission is one that I failed to note until I saw the name of Joel Chandler Harris...
...But there are other realistic tendencies, more or less similar to the above...
...Here are, among other collections, man's songs of woman and woman's songs of man, bad-man ballads and worka- day spirituals, blues and folk-minstrel melodies...
...For the first time since the fifteenth cen-tury, a reader may feel confident that the poem he reads is virtually the same as the fresh pages which Chaucer himself scanned...
...And why is Olive Custance dropped...
...Louis University...
...The occasion for this acrimony was the appearance of Charles Tennant's Tour through the Netherlands, a futile, meandering book, now totally forgotten...
...But the author gives an account of the philosophy of Victor Cousin, Ravaisson, Renouvier and Lachelier, to say nothing of that of Croce and Gentile, which strongly reminds one that idealism is no respecter of international frontiers...
...Unfortunately, it is not, to any appreciable extent, going on in America...
...We were altogether unprepared for the large number of Catholic writers Mr...
...A world without subtlety, without the small- est intellectual interests, innocent of art, letters, philosophy, science...
...Maynard's book...
...In any case, we do not know enough of one another...
...D. W. FXSHEE, formerly of the department of philosophy at Dartmouth, is now a general contributor to American magazines...
...I THINK the sensation to be commonly experienced on opening Mr...
...She chants her lines on a high key...
...He has done his task with some study and some sympathy...
...elmy Lowell: el Critical Study, by Clement Wood...
...For, while Professor Durant paints more vivid pictures, fills in more personal de- tails, and makes more "wisecracks," it is fair to say that Pro- fessor Perry tells more of the essential truth...
...second, such amendment of them as might be required by the advances of science...
...Sometimes the clash of an individualized temperament with an entirely fresh set of surroundin~ results in a really stimulating cerebro-chemical reaction...
...They are all present in The Big Mogul...
...Regarding naturalism in general, Professor Perry says: "In any given epoch of human thought, philosophical naturalism will reflect those scientific generalizations which have altered the common beliefs of men, whether through redrafting the cosmic picture or through reconstituting the fundamental habits of mind...
...The word-pictures flash out a rapid, scintillating series of sharp, colored images...
...JAMEs J. DaLY...
...Professor Root, having completed an exhaustive study and reconstruction of the best manuscripts, now publishes an edition which is likely to re-main definitive...
...RODERICK GILL is a literary critic and reviewer for the New York press...
...Maynard should not give satisfaction in every instance---after all, an impossible thingmhe ought to win easy indulgence: his difficulties were great...
...There are other playwrights to the interpretation of whose works she lent her rare talent: Browning, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Francois Copp~e, Clyde Fitch, etc...
...It is not ten years since Joyce Kilmer gave us his Catholic anthology, Dreams and Images...
...Clement Wood shows us how a plain, well- bred daughter of a family of some intellectual achievement can be handled with a Freudian cleverness and transmogrified into a figure that will set agog the groups on the studio lounges in the back-alleys of literature...
...CONTRIBUTORS HARVEY WXCKHAM is an American novelist and journalist residing in l~ome...
...It is still one of the most moving spectacles ever attempted on the American stage, and also a study in the deepest problems of mysticism as seen through the confused veil of an emotional people...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...To question the high quality of Longfellow's poetry has become a very easy attitude for youth that will not stop to consider the pretty mess into which American literature is wallowing today: a juvenility of judgment that does not stop to measure the provincialism, the lack of national traditions, the educational poverties of our colonial New England at their proper standard...
...O~N STAY,TON is a well-known British writer and journalist...
...He distinguishes materialism and positivism, spiritualism and idealism, and what he calls the revival of realism...
...But the general denunciation and contemptuous dismissal of the typical travel-book might well be applied, with unimpaired pertinence, to the scores of such volumes which somehow get printed, and glut our bookstores and railway bookstands and steamer baskets, today...
...her Viola...
...upsets, the book is kept zoing pleasantly, while some of Mr...
...He sadly missed the steady ground-bass of the essential American spirit which, whatever may be its ultimate value, does underlie all those frothy and relatively insignificant ornamental arabesques...
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...Lincoln's inimitable, quaint ne'er-do-wells turn up to delight us...
...Indeed, he distinguishes another category, comprising the doctrines of Nietzsche, Bergson and James--voluntarism, vitalism, and pragmatism...
...But truths the most ancient, the most habitually believed, may be endowed for us as the result of new experience with an appearance of apocalyp- tic novelty...
...In Batavia, for instance, the author sits through the twenty- six dishes of the incredibly gorging "rice table," and then proceeds to plead for a resurrection of the mediaeval notion of the cardinal sinfulness of gluttony--a scathing sermon...
...In another respect, too, this year's performance suffers...
...But he describes what he did see with devastating bril-liance, especially in his Los Angeles Rhapsody, an expression-istic prose-poem on the confused exhilaration of the Joy City...
...I should be inclined to believe that there was a grave de-ficiency in the knowledge of any student of American litera-ture who had never seen Russell's Christmas Night in the Quarters, and Nebuchadnezzar...
...REv...
...New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...
...from their ill- formed metre and abortive mental conception are developing a higher and more perfect music: the spirituals, the formal blues, Gershwin's Rhapsody...
...A world, in brief, from which all that gives the modern West its power, its political and, I like lmtriotically to think, its spiritual superiority to the East, has been left out...
...The main service of a book like this is to create a class-con-sciousness, a very desirable thing in a literature alien to Catho- lic traditions and in a language so widely and disparately em- ployed as the English...
...Literature cannot be distinguished from journalism, even on these higher and more self-conscious levels...
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...Consequently, his impressions reflect only the perturbation induced by the distasteful glitter of our big hotels, theatres, conventions, revival-temples, dinners, taxicabs, manifestations of "movements" of all kinds...
...Thus, along several routes, we are headed back to where we started from, some twenty-three centuries ago...
...Longfellow at Christmas time, whereas the event actually occurred in July, and an erroneous description of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his pathetic speech over the dead poet, which was made, not at Mount Auburn cemetery, but in the library of Craigie House, and should be correctly reported as "I do not recall our friend's name, but he was a beautiful soul...
...Each of his images, moreover, serves to induce and to illuminate a more universal observa- tion-and many of these scattered observations are worth remembering...
...Education in New England," says Mr...
...Jesting Pilate: .,In Intellectual Holiday...
...Russell became a Catholic while he was a student in the St...
...She does not create the illusion of duality...
...The Port of Storms...
...Held in that great spiritualized palm is a chaotic, yet withal beautiful, mass of crude material...
...the musician will appreciate the phono-photographic pictures of the Negro's singing voice...
...There is all the difference in the world between believing academically, with the intellect, and believing person- ally, intimately, with the whole self...
...but it seems to me he could easily have come within the conditions that were set by Mr...
...New York: George H. Doran Company...
...and out of that world is emerging the harmonious man and woman...
...The encyclical Aeterni Patris, issued by Pope Leo XIII in x879, contained the words: "~Ve earnestly exhort you all, venerable brethren, for the de- fense and adornment of the Catholic faith, for the good of society, for the advancement of all sciences, to restore the golden wisdom of Saint Thomas and propagate it far and wide to the best of your power.' . . But . . . the end cyclical expressly emphasized the wisdom of Saint Thomas, to the exclusion of 'any excessive subtlety of inquiry, any in-considerate teaching, anything less consistent with the ascer-tained conclusions of a later generation...
...My own losses were numerous...
...or that the act by which anything comes into mind is the same as the act by which it comes into being...
...To the subject races of the East and South, Hollywood proclaims us as a people of criminals, and men-tally defective...
...We can turn to them with the certainty of hours of cleanly humor, the tang of the sea-salt, a substratum of strong, old-fashioned manliness, of honest capable womanliness, a touch of young romance and a sprinkling of quaint and amusing characters...
...Coming to realism, this, in technical circles at least, is the brand of thought that is making the most pronounced head- way at present...
...It is a play that builds up exceedingly well for two acts and then falls to pieces in the third, due to the fact, apparently, that the author, having created a situation, does not know exactly how to solve it, or else fails to make his solution dear in dramatic terms...
...THEODORE MAYNARD is an English author now residing in America...
...A Tankard of Ale...
...His collection represented the work of elghty-six Catholic writers...
...Professor Perry says: "The great scholastic systems which dominated the thought of Catholic Europe in the thirteenth century rapidly declined in the fifteenth and sixteenth cen-turies, and thereafter for 300 years were represented only in- termittently by men of eminence such as Suarez (I548-I617) and Bossuet (I627-I7o4...
...Julia Marlowe, Her Li[e and drt...
...Any mediocre person can be featured as a Zenobia or a Jezebel : it depends almost entirely upon the biographer...
...JosEP~ B. KONCEVICIUS is a Lithuanian writer now resident at the Catholic University of America...
...he was whisked through from coast to coast, and given no time to catch his breath or his wits...
...A certain nook in our hearts is kept for a gallery of favorite characters from them...
...At bottom they derived from him...
...At least, we can be sure of superior in- telligence in spite of the accidents of habit and custom...
...But it is as an interpreter of Shakespeare's women that Julia Marlowe, as she projected them on the consciousness of the generations who joyed in her arL will live in their memory...
...Professor Root comments upon it by saying: "Chaucer is not so much pointing a moral, as giving us at the end his own verdict as to the permanent values of those aspects of our human life which are for the moment of such passionate im- portance...
...still, his poets, even the best of them, have barely standing room...
...by Charles Edward Russdl...
...JAMES J. DALY, S.J., is a poet and critic, at present on the faculty of St...
...ANNA McCLu~ SHOLL is a critic Of art, and the author of The Law of Life...
...But in com- pensation for what I lost, I acquired two important convic- tions: that it takes all sorts to make a world and that the established spiritual values are fundamentally correct and should be maintained...
...Wood's own craftsmanship...
...Herbert S. Gorman, not any of whose previous work would seem to herald the biographer of so scholarly, cultivated and noble a figure of our earlier American letters as Longfellow, promises in his impressive preface to give the poet an impartial treatment...
...D. W. FISHEIt...
...Princeton: Princeton Univer-sity Press...
...New York: Harold Vinal...
...A succinct and impressively able introduction summarizes all that is known about the poem...
...Such a phenomenon was Alexander Kinglake's Erthen, an arrogant and witty chronicle of wanderings in Serbia, Turkey Palestine and Egypt, which appeared in I844...
...But the play is still great...
...At Weltevreden, he witnesses a showing of American motion-pictures in a native amusement park, and descants on such cinema-revelations of the white man's world: "a world of crooks and half-wits, morons and sharpers...
...There are defects in his statements, such as those on the final page where he speaks of the tragic death of Mrs...
...el Victorian elmerican: Henry Wadsworth Long[ellow, by Herbert S. Gorman...
...And to the general realism of recent times belongs the revival of scholastic, and especially of Thomistic, thought...
...Their historical im- portance, not to mention their merit, would seem to call for a less slender representation especially in the case of Egan...
...There is a firm critical viewpoint behind the book...
...FREDERICK H. MARTENS, critic, is the author of I001 Nights of Opera...
...Maynard was able to reveal...
...And here a curious fact comes to the surface...
...Before one's eyes, she literally became two persons mystically blended in one body...
...Authorities whose right to speak is unquestioned unite in endorsing the book, so that it should be used, at least as reference, in all schools where Troilus and Criseyde is read...
...These are some of the reservations I can fancy being made by grateful readers of Mr...
...Happily, exceptions to this general rule occasionally appear, and should be welcomed accordingly...
...Gorman and color his judgments throughout his whole work...
...I call these opinions 'new,' though both are at least as old as civilization and though I was fully con- vinced of their truth before I started...
...There will always be, of course, something to quarrel with in an anthology...
...Each of the three groups will find interesting material here, for this is the stuff music is made of...
...A FORTUNATE man is he who can pick his own biographer and portrait-painter...
...Thus we have sixty-eight new names in the pres-ent collection...
...There is her first Juliet, plus Colonel Ingersoll's comment...
...It is not so long ago when Maurice Francis Egan, Thomas Walsh, and Thomas A. Daly were about the only Catholic singers whose notes could be discerned in the general chorus on this side of the water...
Vol. 5 • December 1926 • No. 8
