Communications
CONFESSIONS OF AN ANTHOLOGIST New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:—As one of the anthologists mentioned by Mr. Thomas Walsh in his highly entertaining article, Confessions of an Anthologist, it might...
...Yet in its bookroom there were shelves for, roughly speaking, 2,0CX) books, only half of which were filled...
...That there were great gaps in the collection did not disturb me, since these occur in any library, but what was astonishing was the fact that but few books had been added in twenty years...
...On the other hand, the great publishing house to which I was most indebted for the numbep and the importance of the poems I used, did not charge me a cent, though it had a much clearer title to do so than other houses, which charged me a good many dollars...
...Finally, after the Catholics are steeped in Catholic and Irish literature, let them carry the message to the heathen, not, however, in the form of dialectics, but rather by means of the warm humanity of such things as, let us say, the Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi...
...For such drivel as Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret and Corelli's Romance of Two Worlds...
...A few weeks ago I visited a newly erected club-house of a Catholic fraternal organization...
...I could name several of the leading publishers in America in this connection...
...Somewhere in the republic there may be a Catholic society with an adequate library, but in considerable journeying around the country, I have not found it...
...On the contrary, in a community which bars Darwin and Huxley from its public library shelves, it is hardly probable that a cordial welcome would be extended to tomes of Catholic apologetics...
...I should like to hear from him, E. R. HARMAN...
...CATHOLIC LIBRARIES Norwalk, Conn...
...I found my poets, with one or two exceptions, exceedingly generous and courteous...
...The building, with its equipment, must have cost millions...
...Just at present I can recall but one...
...A PHASE OF GOD'S SERVICE The Abbey, Fort Augustus, Scotland...
...The answer might interest several of our Catholic authors, who now must rely on the non-Catholic public for readers...
...For if, as another of your correspondents has indicated, "Protestants are not good Catholic material," neither, strangely enough, are Catholics...
...His country brother, however, resents the disturbance to his cerebral comfort, and, as likely as not, rushes to his state legislature to bury his resentment in the form of a law...
...For Huxley's Man's Place in Nature...
...DONALD POWELL...
...ANTHONY TRABOULSEE...
...So that, as an antidote for the present realism, I would recommend that Catholics devote a goodly space in the libraries of their societies to the Irish authors...
...Flanagan's communication on the Catholics in Scotland (June 22...
...With the exception of Cabell and Morley, no one in America is writing romance these days...
...Now Bishop Cameron is dead these last seventeen years, and the see is occupied at present by His Lordship James Morrison, formerly of the sister province of Prince Edward Island...
...And, as I discovered only when it was too late, claims are often made upon copyright that does not exist...
...THEODORE MAYNARD...
...Why was the Encyclopaedia Britannica preferred to the Catholic Encyclopaedia...
...At any rate, before members of the Catholic societies, referred to by one of your recent correspondents, attempt to carry the civilizing effect of their literature to outlying parts, it might not be a bad notion for them to familiarize themselves with that literature...
...Hence I doubt very much whether placing Catholic books in rural libraries would make him more tolerant of Catholic claims...
...THE CHURCH IN SCOTLAND Glace Bay, Nova Scotia...
...Romance is sadly needed just now, even though we may grant Mr...
...Ernest Sutherland Bates his hypothesis, in a recent issue of the Saturday Review of Literature, and characterize the romanticist as a "low fellow, a coward, a liar, and a profligate...
...Perhaps all anthologists have learned, as Mr...
...If there is one such, he will probably be interested in an effort to establish again the monastic way of serving God with his talents, as was done so successfully in the middle-ages...
...Thomas Walsh in his highly entertaining article, Confessions of an Anthologist, it might not be amiss for me to add my corroborative testimony to what he has to say about the difficulties the compiler of an anthology has to encounter...
...I go further...
...I ^ O the Editor:—^The purpose of this brief note is to corA rect a very glaring mistake in Mr...
...But now most publishers charge such fees as will soon make anthologies impossible...
...The chief difficulties the maker of anthologies meets are those created by publishers...
...Not so many years ago, permission to use copyright material was, as a rule, given gratis, as well it might be—seeing that representation in an anthology is good advertising for both poet and publisher...
...and, with the exception of Synge, Joyce, O'Flaherty, and the earlier George Moore, no Irishman of first importance has written anything else...
...But, ever recurring: Why had this library been all but dead for twenty years...
...TO the Editor:—I wonder if there is any one of your readers, who—as architect, artist, craftsman or builder—feels that his work as a means of Catholic expression cannot be developed as it should be, under the commercial system which prevails in modern times...
...Who was responsible for Epictetus's Discourses...
...Speaking of the Clan MacDonald, who were compelled to leave their native heath and to settle in the county of Antigonish in this province, the writer says that this clan still exists in this county under Bishop Cameron...
...TO the Editor:—When the city moron comes in contact with a new idea, he greets it with a sceptical catch-phrase, such as "apple-sauce," and proceeds to escape it via the psychic narcosis of a two-hour movie...
...How did Melville's Omoo get in...
...I know of no better job for this organization than to see that their writing co-believers get a hearing...
...Contact with the three or four others similarly interested may help to bring about beneficial results in America, in this particular phase of God's service...
...W. H. Davies did, that "the worst poets ask the most money...
...Several questions presented themselves while I glanced over the books...
Vol. 6 • July 1927 • No. 12
