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Memories and Opinions, by William Barry. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. $3.50. THIS book is a notable record of fifty years of service to God and humanity, and might appropriately be...
...At this time the Civil War in America was attracting world-wide attention...
...NONE of the early poets was so lucky in his name...
...She is the "star of intellectual Greece," we are told...
...He gave us a Helen at once enchanting and exasperating— but a Helen so thoroughly understandable that she made young Paris and old Menelaus understandable, too...
...both had delved deeply into German thought...
...As he passes in review, the Canon salutes the colors thus: "America was attending for the first time, America the destined heir of us all...
...He adds: "Who could rise up more grandly among living champions of our creed than John Henry Newman ? . , . He appeared to me like an angel whose lot had been cast among mortals, but went to and fro by himself, thinking, praying and adoring in his own unique way...
...Heretofore there has been no really satisfactory text of Gay's collected works, although The Beggar's Opera has been often reprinted...
...Paolo, surprisingly become like Benedick, a married man—lithe, lovable, predestined...
...third...
...Francesca, the golden eaglet of the Polentani, with her beautiful, useless hands...
...Austin Dobson, who affirms that permanent literary merit is lacking in his Fables, grudgingly admits that they have given pleasure to several generations of readers and have enriched the English language with more than one indispensable quotation...
...Eucharistia, by Joseph Kramp, SJ...
...With the unaffected simplicity of the truly great, he sums up his lifework as follows: "So far as depended on me, my life has not been a failure...
...Johnson denies him the dignity of genius...
...It is not true to say that the Mass in its liturgical form is essentially eucharistic or thanksgiving...
...In his brief description of the opening service, Canon Barry puts an explanatory label on some of the prominent persons in attendance, not omitting our own Cardinal Gibbons...
...This lesson of the book applies to those Catholics who believe that the chief reason for coming to Mass is to receive Holy Communion...
...In wit a man," Pope prepares his epitaph, although Dr...
...He had a natural capacity for friendships which developed very young, and grew with his years...
...And yet her Aspasia somehow fails to make either herself or her love-story quite credible...
...Gian, that revolted angel, "who measured the world by the length of his sword...
...Though he talked much of virtue, her head always run Upon something or other she found better fun...
...but English literature was the gainer...
...The tendency of this practice is to obscure the fact that in Holy Communion we receive Christ under the aspect of the Divine Victim sacrificed on the altar...
...Mrs...
...I never cared for rank or rule, or a front seat in the synagogue, and as I went on learning, I saw that popularity would not fall to my share...
...Devotion must center first and foremost around the Mass, then around the Holy Eucharist, regarded as the Sacrament, which nourishes our souls in Holy Communion, and finally around the Holy Eucharist under the aspect of the Real Presence abiding on our altars...
...I could now," he records, "fulfil my true and in some sense my unique calling, which might be defined as a literary apostolate...
...Real Presence...
...Here, too, he produced his Life of Renan...
...FRANCIS X. SHEA...
...But we did not have to be told anything of the kind about Helen...
...He was immediately appointed vice-rector of the new seminary at Alton, his work being to teach, philosophy...
...The author visions an approaching springtime in Catholic life...
...historical works of the nature of The Papal Monarchy...
...As soon as the result of the vote was made known, the great dome of Saint Peter's resounded with the cry of "Credo," and the vast audience sang the Te Deum...
...New York: The Century Company...
...To prove this, we have only to recall the varied list of books that the latter wrote...
...Paul Seminary...
...From the first he turned eagerly toward events in the new world...
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...In 1908 he was made canon of Saint Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, and removed to a larger field of parochial duties at Saint Peter's, Leamington...
...Though physically incapacitated by an accident with which he met on the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination, he courageously set to work to give us a retrospect of his life-work in the form of an autobiography, which is marked by great clarity of expression and beauty of diction...
...KATHEMNE BREGY...
...His entry upon the lecture platform was therefore made at a very early age...
...although she might quite as justly be called his wife, since it was merely the hapless convention of Pericles's own statute forbidding marriage between an Athenian and a "foreigner" which prevented his subsequent union with the brilliant Milesian from being quite as regular as any known to the Greeks...
...The school director, seeing how well-informed young William Barry was on the subject of slavery (he was an ardent abolitionist) suggested that he give some instructive talks to the students on that topic...
...That the unhappy far-off tale of Paolo and Francesca, immortalized by many poets from Dante to D'Annunzio, remains a powerful, dramatic story, is again exemplified by this novel...
...THE quaint quotation, "dark with excessive bright" is strikingly apposite in any descriptive valuation of The Ardent Flame...
...There are some inaccurate statements in the book, which need correction...
...Its professors were th^ choicest which the Society could appoint, among them men like Padre Secchi, whose achievements in astronomy have borne the widest consequences...
...Perhaps she has been just a little too determined to ignore the other side—^Attic ugliness...
...Those were stitring i&ys during William Barry's first year in Rome, when the 750 bishops called by the Holy Father from all over the world, to debate the question of infallibility, began to assemble...
...Both were great classical scholars, but Renan had not the versatility of Canon Barry...
...It was from this publication that he first received recognition as a writer, retaining his connection as a contributor foil half a century...
...Giotto lived in a gloomier town than Euripides, but in a gayer universe," remarked the wise Mr...
...she is regnantly fair and invincibly charming, we are told...
...Frances Winwar, Sicilian-born, as was Francesca Vinciguerra, has used a pronounced sense of word beauty, of word color, and a style that beats in perfect rhythm with Her subjectmatter...
...Her book succeeds in telling a fascinating story, but its style seems to be rather weighed down by the burden of historic detail...
...The Commonweal would greatly appreciate the receipt of copies of Number 13, Volume V, front any of its readers who may possess extra copies of this number...
...The Poetical Works of John Gay, edited by G. C. Faber...
...Today there is a tendency to depart from the practice of the early centuries, when the Mass was supreme, and to place the Sacrament aspect of the Eucharist before the Sacrifice...
...He was appointed rector of the little church of Saint Birinus at Dorchester, a town vnthin walking distance of Oxford...
...Our Lord's answer to the question of Saint Philip in the fourteenth chapter of Saint John's Gospel shows the need of revising the statement: "The Father is not more present in the Eucharist than He is by His omnipresence in the place which the monstrance occupies...
...For the dame by her skill in affairs astronomical Imagined to live in the clouds was but comical...
...during his twenty-five years at Dorchester...
...and biographies of the spiritual insight of his Life of Newman and Ernest Renan...
...Who would have dreamed that within a few short months the Italian army would be clamoring for entrance at the gates of Rome...
...He now made the acquaintance of William George Ward, editor of the Dublin Quarterly Review...
...Its centre will be the Holy Eucharist...
...Here again these familiar characters— admirably re-created for the scene—act out their unforgettable drama...
...On May 11, 1873, William Barry was ordained in Rome and, having received a Doctor's degree, turned his face toward England, where he was to serve as a missionary priest...
...The seven chapters are a treatment of the Eucharist under the triple aspect of Sacrifice, Sacrament and Real Presence...
...THOMAS WALSH...
...In 1883, thei dream came true...
...I can scarcely remember the time," he says, "when America did not interest me...
...VERILY, our classic heroines are coming into their own again—or if not exactly their own, at least into a new and highly romantic popularity...
...It was in his Dorchester rectory...
...Here, he tells us, his dedication was to those supreme masters of English prose, Newman and Ruskin...
...But still in her heart she held nature more clever...
...For if, as she carefully points out, Aspasia was a magnificent innovator in insisting upon equality with her lover, and in trying to mitigate the ignorance and subjection of Athenian women so that they might supplant the increasingly sinister sway of the beautiful youths, the inference is all too obvious...
...The Immortal MarnaffCj by Gertrude Atherton, New York: Boni and Liveright...
...From Sedgely Park he went to Oscott College, which was the centre of Catholic thought when the Oxford Movement was reaching a crisis...
...It is as inevitable as it is unfair to compare this revised version of Aspasia with the recently revised Helen of Troy—not altogether to the advantage of the former...
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...The council met for the last time July 18, 1870...
...As the church was endowed and the parish small, his parochial duties were light...
...With regard to our children in America, a change is suggested in the following: "There seems to be a sort of agreement that ten years is a suitable age for First Communion...
...Paul: The E. M. Lohmann Company...
...Born in 1685, the son of a good family, he was apprenticed as a silk-mercer in London...
...The definition of sacrifice: "Sacrifice is the offering to God of a visible gift in order to render Him homage as Supreme Lord," does not include the note of immolation, which in a real or mystical manner is an essential part of sacrifice...
...ANNA MITCHELL...
...one had gone through the ordeal unscathed, while the other had lost his faith...
...In 1893, Canon Barry was offered the chair of literature in the Catholic University at Washington, and came to the United States to look over the ground...
...This time it is the peerless Aspasia, who has been written down in history as mistress of the peerless Pericles...
...In order that this awakening of devotion may bear fullest fruit, the book traces the plan it should follow according to the mind of the Church...
...It sometimes made his work rather heavy for the average reader...
...and in theology, Franzelin and Tarquini, who were raised to the Sacred College...
...MARTHA BAYARD...
...In particular, the book is fitted for teachers of Catholic youth and for students of the liturgy...
...Blue, the escapable blue of pagan Italy, of mediaeval Chartres, is the color with which the artist, who is also the author, has illumed the lowering and misty background of her picture...
...second, Holy Communion...
...Always the sense of impending doom hangs over the great grey fortress, with its gay gardens and falling leaves, its funereal cypresses and cedars, set high above the shimmering Adriatic...
...Yet I have had my recognition...
...It has done much to keep John Gay's fame alive by titillating the curiosity of posterity, by holding out promises of amusement and wit which are not altogether unfulfilled in his pages...
...The description of a papal Mass in the eighth century lends a patch of color to the opening pages, and the closing pages offer a plan of Eucharistic education...
...It is curious to find so facile and accomplished a novelist as Gertrude Atherton failing in precisely that vivacity of manner and vitality of characterization which one has grown to associate with her name...
...And after all, one wonders if the Periclean dramatists did not know more of the mysterious "education of suffering" than this modern interpreter would have us believe...
...The university that the students attended was the Roman College of the Society of Jesus, which he commends thus: "It would be hard to find a parallel for this Jesuit institution anywhere else in Europe...
...Nor is the picture of a Greece where unwanted babies were still "exposed," and the orgies of the Dionysian revels still indulged, likely to convert us to her own somewhat condescending attitude toward Christian spirituality and introspection...
...Whatever gods there be, stalk heavily, relentlessly...
...There is much that is negligible in this complete edition of Gay: little that strikes one as highly witty, but some moderate humor which may be well illustrated in his quaint lines of Epitaph: "Here lies a round woman, who thought mighty odd Every word she e'er heard in this church about God...
...There were sacred books like the Traditions of Scripture...
...At any rate, the story is one of the great romances of antiquity, and one is surprised that it has not oftener found its way into novel and drama and poem...
...The English College in Rome, where he was installed, was originally a hospice, and afterward became a sort of embassy...
...Atherton, on the other hand, seems determined to paint her models as naturalistically as possible...
...A new scholarship at the English College in Rome was created in 1868, and William Barry carried off the coveted prize...
...Through this biography there runs a sympathetic note, as if he felt a certain tender pity for his subject...
...After some deliberation he decided not to accept the honor, and returned to his Dorchester hermitage...
...Nor is it correct to say that the general idea of our union with the Godhead is the dominant motive of the entire Sacrifice of the Mass...
...Always it thunders on the left...
...Chesterton once upon a time...
...The world war found him actively engaged in ministering to the Belgian and Polish refugees who had sought a home in Leamington, and writing The World's Debate, that masterly work which went through three editions in this country in a very short time...
...Then— ". . . the play is ended...
...After attending a neighboring school until he was fourteen years of age, he went away to Sedgely Park School in the Midlands...
...On the contrary it exemplifies once more Goethe's canon of success, by which aspirations are converted into acquisitions...
...New York: Oxford University Press...
...He was born in London of Irish parents...
...However, it was not pedantry, but rather the tendency of a full mind so richly stored with facts that allusion to them cropped out vnth every turn of his pen...
...Atherton has evidently been at enormous pains to verify the historical setting of her theme—and quite as evidently, she has been (as who can fail to be...
...The heart of the book is the insistence on this order in devotion to the Holy Eucharist: first, the Mass...
...The translation from the German is done by Father Busch of the St...
...In this world she despised every soul she met here...
...After his first visit to Oxford, the university became to him a classic shrine...
...Palmieri and Ballerini teaching dogma and morals—men who enjoyed world-wide fame...
...And now she's in the other, she thinks it but queer...
...in general, it will be helpful to all who wish to come closer to God through the Holy Eucharist...
...It applies also to those who gain a quarter of an hour's time in the schedule of the day by receiving Holy Communion before Mass...
...He still kept in touch with literary work through his regular contributions to the Dublin Quarterly and National reviews...
...To convince her of God, the good dean did endeavor...
...America was the loser by this decision...
...I once heard Wilfred Ward say to Canon Carry, that "his erudition was almost irritating...
...Over the professor's chair at Alton there constantly hovered a dream that some day he might be able to live near this great institution...
...there were purpose novels like The New Antigone and The Two Standards...
...moreover when Holy Communion is changed from its logical place, we are apt to use our time at Mass as a thanksgiving for the Sacrament, rather than as a time to offer the Sacrifice in union with the priest...
...However, after he met Pope and Swift and won the admiration of these diificult gentlemen, he was soon in the heyday of fame, the companion of dukes and duchesses, who at the end accompanied his dead body with tears to its stately resting place in Westminster Abbey in 1732...
...EUCHARISTIA is a book of essays on the Holy Eucharist...
...Scientist and biographer were both of Celtic descent, which gave them great fluency of expression...
...The lesson is timely...
...It is dark, tempestuous, overhung with sullen foreboding, shot with "fragmentary blue...
...It made a powerful impression on him and led to his making a vow that he would serve the Church with zeal and loyalty...
...deeply under the spell of Attic beauty...
...The Ardent Flame, by Frances Winwar...
...Bridge House, that he wrote his Life of Newman, which appeared in 1902 and drew from the London Times the statement that its author was the English Sainte-Beuve...
...THIS book is a notable record of fifty years of service to God and humanity, and might appropriately be called Canon Barry's valedictory to the vast audience which he has reached through his gifted pen...
...It was during his last year at Oscott that he received his first intimation of vocation, through the reading of The Inner Life of Lacordaire...
...Erskine, manifestly believing that the fundamentals of human nature change little from century to century and that the superficials are unimportant, treated his theme in a vein of Shavian irony and insouciance...
Vol. 6 • July 1927 • No. 10
