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...He even knows, in many cases, what remedies are needed...

...of literature had written the annual addresses delivered by Sir Joshua' as president of the Royal Academy and so highly esteemed...

...I am not at all in sympathy with Mr...

...Th<^ author of Thrasymachus: or The Future of Morals has not done us the honor of a visit...

...Its central thesis begins with an iteration of Spengler's Decline of the West: the old culture is dead, is already supplanted by a barbaric technicalized state, of which the chauffeur is the dominant type...

...Through all the heaviness, however, glides this fine woman on light but strong feet that will not falter from disgust at the unloveliness to be walked through and that will not be drawn aside into the luring pathway of a great, understanding love which comes too late into her life...

...Merrick's first novel...

...He never, would allow anyone else either to praise or to blame Garrick, though he did both himself, and in disparagement at times went even further than he was wont to go...

...A centre of ecclesiastical learning and antiquarian research, Poitiers is itself old enough to impress upon one a salutary perspective in the contemplation of antiquity...

...This might really be termed a rather noble concept...

...Joad is quite right in suggesting, as cures for extroversion, more quiet of soul, the development of an inner life...

...Thus, when America pursues "goodness" for its own sake, goodness becomes hypocrisy— unconscious hypocrisy perhaps, as Mr...

...Again: "The man of spirit must not be forced td think of a livelihood, . . . he must naturally command whatever means are called for by his mission...

...The Harvest of the Years, by Luther Burbank urith Wilbur Hall...

...If these extracts could only be taken as representative of the general texture of| the whole presentation, the big efEect would have been made...

...Thus beauty becomes gaudiness, and the very compulsion to uniformity in American life prevents the real artist from satisfying the aesthetic needs of well-meaning people...

...why he is already designated by so many intelligent Germans as the great repeater (der grosse Wiederholer...

...in short, the ability to "detach oneself at the right time...

...Another was that he was able to change his nature, seemingly at will, at four distinct stages of his career (he stiU believes implicitly in the power of a conscious individual spirit to transform both the internal and the external world by deliberately endowing it with "meaning") and that he could assimilate foreign cultures and modes of thought with inhuman adaptability, as the Travel Diary sufficiently demonstrates...

...Into this decidedly unethical book are thrown, for added moral spiciness, some believers in trial marriage and free love and what-not...

...Piozzi and still more about Sir John Hawkins...

...for the faults that made it unsuccessful on its first publication are painfully apparent on the one hand...

...The softness and mellow charm of English country life has entered her verses and made them lovely with homelyj lights and winsome attractions...

...OPINIONS might well differ as to the advisability of the reissuance of Mr...

...O'Neil's effects are produced rather in a smoothness of tone, a seasoned and sombre reflectiveness that faintly recalls Edgar Allan Poe...

...It was in the East that political order and inherited culture offered the firmest resistance to the myriad attacks of barbarism...

...THE biographers of Samuel Johnson did not love one another...

...2.50...

...The Babbitt Warren, by C. E. M. Joad...

...This is a book which every Johnson lover wall want to add to his collection, and one cannot but hope that Mr...

...casting in his lot with the new order, and cynically careless of the fate of his former colleagues and of the system and society of which he and they had once formed part...

...Chapters dealing with agrarian economy, land ownership, production and exchange, the feudal regime, the growth of commerce, the renaissance of industry and the emancipation of the working classes follow one another in a manner that is concrete and interesting...

...and some of his rapid summaries of conditions in England etch themselves on the memory far more clearly than whole chapters written by British historians...

...And this is not well for America...

...They explain why so many people cannot throw themselves at the good Count's feet...

...Their material problems are of the same nature as our own, covering twice the territory of the United States...

...but there may be a decided advantage in all that, which might be lost should the critic come close enough to be assimilated...

...Reynolds wrote two dialogues, in the first of which he himself praises Garrick to Johnson who answers—as he would have done—by depreciation...

...Russia will not be developed by Russians alone, nor by Europe unaided...

...Again, summing up his own personal significance : "Even as from my childhood on I saw in my body nothing more than an instrument, which I never felt to be identical with my self, so I felt my ego to be, in its essential nature, an instrument of humanity...

...There is intense dramatic power in the scene in which Violet says her final "No...

...In the second, Gibbon is set up to speak slightingly of Davie, who finds a strong defender in the man who in the previous dialogue had taken an exactly opposite position...

...New York: Harper and Brothers...

...Beauty may not be taken by storm...

...He will be willing to expend a considerable amount of exasperated attention upon its tortured vocabulary, in confident expectation of a flash of intelligence suddenly set free...

...FREDERICK H . MARTENS...

...Returning to Emotion is the rather self-conscious proclamation of Maxwell Bodenheim's new volume of poetry...

...Time showed that there was not the slightest truth in that rumor, for Reynolds's addresses are said to have steadily gained in excellence...

...It is not to be pursued for its own sake...

...George O'Neil secured a fixed place in contemporary poetry through his volume The Cobbler in WiUow Street...

...but when he comes to remedies, he is not reliable...

...From this store she drew] for her three volumes of Memoirs, now very rare (the present reviewer, though fairly well read in Johnsonian literature, has never even seen them) but said to be intolerably padded with iminteresting matter...

...He indicts "modern civilization" as a whole, admitting that "By 'modern civilization' I mean American civilization, since, as America is undoubtedly our most progressive nation, whatever is true of America will be true in some degree of all the rest...

...There is much matter about the French court just before the Revolution, gleaned by Laetitia from the Comte Jarnac, one of the celebrated Rohan family whose boast was: "Roi ne puis...

...One result was that he was unable to concentrate, because of nervous weakness, until he took up Indian Yogi exercises in his thirty-second year...

...He was, in fact, the author of a great history of music still referred to, though—again unfortunate Hawkins!—it also was temporarily eclipsed by the almost contemporary appearance of the History of Music by Dr...

...Just what is Mr...

...That must be obvious to those who read their "Bozzy" for that prince amongst biographers had many acid remarks about Mrs...

...His analyses are keen and sound and his opinions sober and conservative...

...and yet she perseveres as his devoted wife in spite of the well-nigh overwhelming love she later bears another man, who satisfies her spiritual and intellectual needs along with his appeal to her emotions...

...The author is consistently a Frenchman in his attitude toward the European scene, preferring to stress those aspects of the great story which are most intimately associated with the Gallic national past...

...Thus the typical Babbitt comes to love the noise and numbers of "big" movements, "religious" or otherwise, the while he becomes utterly impervious to truth itself...

...Being possessed of about the same amount of morality as has the starling, she escapes from her cage and her uncongenial mate to find another mate, and, one is led to assume, perfect freedom to fly hither and yon...

...Our predpitanq^ will serve only to frighten the coy damsel, and for all our pains we shall grasp only a shadow...

...The book is not limited by the Johnson circle though what we read about them is| perhaps first in interest...

...He brings "modern civilization" to the test of the triple Poesque criterion of truth, beauty, and goodness, and it is his conclusion that "the newly and indecently rich" Babbitts have made a mess of things...

...Beside the figure of my love...

...New York: Boni and Liveriffht, $2.00...

...3.00...

...and a long paternal line of artistically distinguished aristocratic Keyserlings bequeathed him a super-sensitized intelligence, impressionable beyond description...

...Such expectancy surely seems justified— by Keyserling's title, by his romantic career, by the high merit of large portions of his Travel Diary of a Philosopher, by his increasing reputation as director of the new School of Wisdom at Darmstadt, above all by the promise that we shall find in this single volume the key to his enigmatical character and a solution to the most harrowing problems of our generation...

...The husband, caught finally in a love-affair, furnisihes her the excuse for a divorce...

...Joad, there is a real danger that Bolshevism under another name may actually gain a foothold...

...2.00...

...This is not the place to discuss what may be debatable in the conclusions arrived at by Professor Boissonade...

...Indeed, the rise of the serf—if one may use the word as a generic term covering a number of varying stages of servitude—was far less the result of his own efforts than it was the outcome of historical events, and the goal arrived at by the cultural agencies which formed Europe...

...Violet Moses, to escape from uncongenial surroundings, marries a man wholly unsuited to her in ever^ way, a man who jars on her every sensibility...

...The huge explosion is not, indeed, liberated by this book, although it does make a seemingly valuable advance into the trenches of indifference, complacency and unconsciousness...

...Its "environment" throughout is that of earth...

...One cannot, of course, be wholly sympathetic with the fair Cynthia, in view of the fact that she deliberately enters what she knows is a money-gilded cage and that, considering her alliance impermanent, she refuses to bear children because children would make the alliance irrevocable...

...I may add that the translation, though it does not avoid a tendency to ponderousness, is agreeably correct and forceful...

...His images are seldom entirely objective, but carry his personality into regions that are difficult to plumb and have the eeriness and fairy-like charm of shifting mirages...

...and thus we see our starlings get two new cages, manifesting again the strange presumption that those who have wrecked a first marriage are inevitably going to find happiness in a second...

...For that state there is only one possible line of advance, intellectually and spiritually—through increasing consciousness...

...12/6s...

...How can we believe that a spirit capable of such arrogant errors could possibly be the sincere and consistent propounder of a really vital cultural philosophy...

...He wrote the official life of Johnson, which was completely blanketed a; year or so afterward by that from the pen of Boswell...

...She is, according to her creator, a starling imprisoned in an unhappy marriage...

...He need not fear that Bolshevism will never have a chance in America...

...He himself is the chronicler of Poitou, ancient province in which the deeds of Caesar and the Black Prince blend with the glorious pathos of Saint Jeanne d'Arc...

...Another result is this book, one of the latest in a rapid and bewildering succession of dogmatic utterances...

...GEORGE N . SHUSTER...

...Here is the only prospect for general progress, for...

...and its vulgar wooings of beauty remind the observer of the methods used by a dog in digging out a rabbit...

...Unfortunately, the book teems with other remarks whose asininity makes one mistrust, and finally conceive a strange dislike for the author...

...Laetitia Matilda was Hawkins's daughter, as acid an old maid as ever figured as such in any work of fiction...

...where the courtly intrigues of Eleanor of Aquitaine are remembered by the same archivists who have uncovered the ruins of forgotten primitive Christian baptisteries...

...It is here that she discovers instead that her choice has already been made for her...

...Take this: "AngloSaxons are particularly prone to misunderstand me, because they find it harder than others to conceive that a man is able to serve others precisely by living for himself...

...I share Mr...

...The bulk of the story consists, however, of the records of western Europe's slow, painful progress toward reconstruction...

...Apropos of that, when Johnson died, someone remarked that it would now be known whether the great man...

...It is, in short, a most useful book, particularly since the absence of scholarly notations and abstruse digressions renders it a manual which the general reader can consult without immediately realizing his hopeless ignorance...

...gj^^^^ y^ ELEANORE...

...And further, Keyserling illuminates it with many a bit of phenomenally keen observation...

...So collective souls emerge at every moment, and a collectivity increases its mastery over its component parts in proportion as a relationship is more enduring and many-sided as it faces, as a whole, other collectivities...

...IF MY impression of the book is correct, Mr...

...Johnson, as Reynolds and Boswell point out, looked upon David Garrick as his own personal property, David having been his pupil and his companion on their first coming to London, both in the last stage of impecuniosity...

...BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE...

...The husband, too, remarries...

...The University of Poitiers, where he teaches history with a brilliancy and gusto altogether remarkable, is the fortunate centre of a passionate interest in the adventures of the past...

...One section of this book which no one with Johnsonian proclivities can possibly afford to miss is a skit on Johnson written as a jeu d'esprit by Sir Joshua Reynolds and fortunately rescued and printed by Laetitia...

...2.50...

...The skit just mentioned would in itself be sufficient proof of his literary capacity...

...Joad's theory concerning "modern civilization...

...Goodness has also suffered...

...Joad's trenchant criticism...

...Hawkins was a well-to-do man apart from his professional remuneration, and he had a keen interest in music and literature...

...This period in particular is set forth in Professor Boissonade's volume with great insight and vast correlation of detail...

...New York: E. P. Button and Company...

...Who is to designate the fortunate spiritual man, and pass on the value of his mission ? If he is only spiritual enough, he will) not demand a livelihood at the expense of others' chances of becoming similarly spiritual...

...With the other we are not now concerned, but the book under review brings up Hawkins for consideration—Hawkins for whom Johnson coined the word "unclubbable...

...New York: Boni and Liveriffht...

...Coolidge's opinion concerning the Monroe Doctrine ; I do not go with him in his feeling that the United States may have lost material advantages by not recognizing de jure the Bolshevist regime...

...It shoots off a rapid fire of small-calibre ordnance—with a fair proportion of disastrous misses...

...It would be difficult for any work to compete with what, by general accord, is the greatest biography ever written...

...O'Neil's velvet glove is on an iron hand and one confidently looks forward to bigger achievements from it...

...She lived to a respectable age, dying when she was seventy-five, and, as she had been in the way of meeting all the notabilities of her time, she possessed a vast store of anecdotes and information concerning them, "interesting," says Austin Dobson, "if somewhat spiteful...

...What none of our students of contemporary history seem to realize, however, is the personality of George Chicherin behind Russian policy (in distinction to Bolshevist policy) a clever and disappointed diplomat of the imperial regime, filled with a vision of imperial expansion, thoroughly at odds with bureaucratic methods and foiled thereby of a brilliant career...

...but, like his own Babbitts, he is credulous and has not detected the devil in the act of putting poisons in the bottles so innocently labeled...

...only what is transferable can survive in this world...

...As a revelation of the naturalist's soul life, his "intimate friendship with plants," the volume has the warmth, spontaneity and charm which a very individual and attractive personality exhales...

...THE natural tendency of every thoughtful person who takes up this book will be to read it in a spirit of pufEed-up excitement, all primed to explode into unreserved admiration as soon as it punctures his consciousness with its great idea of enormous consequence...

...God watches over Americans and "all's well" with, at any rate, our part of the world...

...As he reads these, he imagines himself a demigod ready to dispense with the indispensable assistance which religion and philosophy are able to bring to him in the solution of his personal problems...

...Professor Boissonade accomplishes it by reason of that gift for popular presentation which he shares with so many other illustrious French scholars...

...As, "No impenetrable partition separates psyche from psyche, as it does body from body...

...Lapses of taste, queer acrobatic leapings of verse and thought, indicate disorder rather than power...

...Finally: "Material wealth should be accepted as the expression, faithful to the spiritual meaning, of every possible value...

...What marriage does in this connection is only the highest expression of what occurs in everyj personal conversation, in every meeting...

...To compress the whole story of what happened into a few hundred pages, while carefully preferring the record of facts to speculation no matter how interesting, is no easy task...

...of Darwin, Newman, Carlyle and Mill...

...Life itself is "meaning," which man must apprehend and transmit...

...Understanding may dissolve' exclusiveness, the Logos is transferable from one individual to another...

...and he adds, "it is this which makes this period, so often misunderstood, and so full of a confused but singularly powerful activity, the most important in the history of labor before the great changes witnessed by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...

...Then there are two lovely though dissolute women whose names can never be forgotten—"Perdita" Robinson and Emma Harte, afterward Lady Hamilton and the evil angel of Lord Nelson...

...Rohan je suis...

...The latter balances well Professor Latane's little inconsistency with regard to our Russian policy in his History of American Foreign Policy...

...The first half of the book is heavy with the ex cathedra philosophizing with which only a young novelist would cumber his narrative, and the second half is heavy with unpleasant pictures of gambling Jews who wear the nerves of the reader as agonizingly as they wear the nerves of the heroine...

...When last we see her she is happily married to an opportunely presented lover and has a child...

...Shades of Bacon, Newton, Locke and Berkeley...

...Joad's socialism nor with his agnosticism...

...Only America is able to undertake operations on the immense scale that Russia's development requires, for only America possesses that experience...

...Therein lies Keyserling's important extension to the Spenglerian doctrine...

...4.00...

...If Americans only had the habit of looking behind names to things, there would be no occasion for alarm...

...ERNEST BRENNECKE, JR...

...Perdita was one of the many mistresses of that wretched creature who was eventually to become George IV, and the story in question is written round that fact, though Perdita herself never appears in it save as a picture...

...What happens ? Well, the autobiography (My Life and My Work) which consumes the first hundred pages does manage to throw a good deal of light on the personality of the author...

...What he may have left the present deponent knoweth not, but what he has taken is excellent without exception...

...It was notorious that Johnson would argue —and for victory—on either side of almost any question, and it is remarkable how well Reynolds hits off his turns of language even though one remembers what close friends and constant companions they were for years...

...Again: "Man wants anything rather than to be free, for to act freely calls for the supremest exertion of effort...

...I ^HIS book may at once be accepted as a genuine auto-•- biographical document, though it has been given shape and coordination by Wilbur Hall, whose precedent biographical sketch of Burbank is a sincere, tender and human appreciation...

...The book is, as a whole, difficult to read and it can but have a depressing effect on the reader...

...Through his mother, descended from feudal chieftains and buccaneers, he tells us that he inherited a nature of "volcanic violence, with the instincts of the conqueror and ruler...

...This gentleman, who had been about the French court from his early days, was an emigre who lived near the Hawkins house and was constantly in the company of the knight and his daughter...

...London: Eveleiffh Nash and Grayson...

...And I will walk with silent inquiry, Down the mongrel ways of city streets...

...even Laetitia—^whose parent was, in his daughter's estimation, the wisest and greatest of his circle—admits that, much as she disliked "Bozzy," his work was far beyond that of her father, which indeed she thought "the worst diing he had ever done...

...On the testimony of his own book, Burbank was an agnostic rather than an atheist...

...WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...

...Johnson and Others: Extracts from the Memoirs of Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, made by Francis Henry Skrine...

...Violet Moses, by Leonard Merrick...

...Burney, father of the celebrated Fanny...

...his second collection...

...For insight, he holds, can transmute the qualities which almost all people now accept in themselves as final and fixed by destiny...

...Their one useful result," he says, "was that they gave finer spirits an impetus to energy and to action, and thus, out of sheer reaction, brought about a series of attempts to return to the traditions of Roman government, and roused the Church to save the remnants of civilization from shipwreck...

...All aggregations of individuals necessarily create a true superindividual unity which transforms the individual into something other than it was before...

...After all, is not one obliged to admit that most Americans are nominalists...

...The tension set up between these two contrasted endowments was, to| use his own language, the physiological basis of that particular polarity of his being out of which the special rhythm of his life was to emerge...

...That she might have some obligations in this matter to the man she married does not seem to be recognized by the lady, who goes off into the mountains with some girlhood friends in order to discover whether she really wants to bind herself for life to her husband...

...The White Rooster, by George O'Neil...

...Time may tell us whether or no he is simply a clever collector of good and bad scraps of wisdom from various feasts—a deipnosophist or dinner-table philosopher—for, in spite of his striking accomplishments...

...Joad, too, is something of a nominalist...

...to her lover and then returns to sit wearily beside her husband while he gambles through the endless night till dawn...

...The light it casts upon the mediaeval adventure is an excellent addition to the illumination we have been receiving in such generous quantities from students of the arts and philosophies...

...Through his new connection he has been able to work out parts of the vision he had conceived of Russian expansion in the East, and whatever he has accomplished has been done through the medium of the oriental peoples themselves...

...whom yet he chose to be his executor, and the booksellers of London— misguided band!—to be his biographer...

...It is especially noteworthy from the point of view of those who reverence Christianity more than anything else in the world that the role of the Church in the salvaging of Europe is set forth with a frankness which has apologetic value even though it never lapses into idealistic dithyrambs...

...Again: "The very recognition of a false adjustment means to be rid of it...

...Feeling somewhat rebellious, she returns to her husband, only to have her way to freedom opened by the still-birth of her child...

...Hawkins pere was a London magistrate and so much respected as to be honored by receiving knighthood from George III...

...Christopher Ward's Cynthia Rivers is another woman illmated and ill-treated...

...London: The Bodley Head, Ltd...

...PROFESSOR BOISSONADE ends his treatise on mediaeval economics by saying that it is from the middle-ages that the rise of labor "to a power of incalculable force in the world takes it date...

...And everywhere, interwoven with colorful description of the varied and ranging interests of "a naturalist living close to the things of nature and impressed and inspired and enthused by them," are his reflections on the underlying causes of things, his endeavors to develop a philosophy of life founded on his human and scientific investigations...

...However, the rubber-tired aristocracy thinks otherwise...

...Two particularly good chapters are still timely: The Future of the Monroe Doctrine, and Russia after Genoa and the Hague...

...New York: Houffhton, Mifflin Company...

...It can scarcely be denied that most Americans are congenitally opposed to realism in all its forms, which is the same as to say that most Americans are superficial...

...Ten Years of War and Peace, by Archibald Carey CooUdge...

...The author's own consciousness that this old story really deals with ourselves, that the fates of our ancestors constitute our own making, is communicated to the reader with a success quite unusual in books dealing with economic history...

...The White Rooster, reaffirms the general critical verdict that here we have a young poet of authentic gifts and remarkable individuality...

...New York: Harper and Brothers...

...Had he possessed a more thorough knowledge of American origins, it is my opinion that he would have been conducted to different conclusions about the American nation as a whole...

...He has forced the hand of Europe in every direction, and the resentment for it falls, not on Chicherin, not even on Russia, but on Bolshevism...

...Prince ne daigne...

...His survey of America is confessedly at long range...

...In spite of his publisher's jacket, he fails to impress us as either mordant or ironic nor does he show the terrible stride that Is supposed to indicate the blond approach of a Carlovingian emperor...

...It is needless to go on garnering a heap of such deplorable aphorisms...

...His sense of character—imaginary character at that—overcomes his aesthetic perceptions, if he has any, and one can approve heartily when he says: "Yes, I am weary of the over-loud Wars between mind and emotion...

...and, on the other, the possibilities of characterization and other fictional requirements on the part of the author that afterward won him fame are equally apparent...

...Again: "Anglo-Saxondom has not produced a single questioner and therefore not a single solver and renewer who will bear comparison with those produced by the Greeks, the Germans and the Russians...

...Joad concedes, but hypocrisy nevertheless...

...IN THIS reprint of essays several years old, the author "makes no corrections . . . preferring to accept criticism for opinions which have since proved mistaken" rather than to try to retouch his v?ork "in order to hide some of its flaws...

...The translator's introductory essay draws attention to the most important of these, which have to do chiefly with the nature of the barbarian invasions...

...Miss Ratcliffe is country-hearted in all her singing, so we may congratulate ourselves that the pastoral spirit still lives among us...

...Dale Lyrics carries on this charm from a line of poets which, beginning with Thompson and Goldsmith, was continued through Herrick, John Clare and the poet of The Shropshire Lad...

...It is a means to an end, that the good man may win heaven (in the Christian view...

...Cambridge: Harvard University Press...

...and to him the spiritual nature of man represented, to use his own words: "the desire to help ourselves and others to higher and better thoughts and environments . . . to a more perfect state of harmony with environment...

...man can thus literally become the master of his own fate, his spirit can be really creative, and his ascendancy over the world is thoroughly realizable...

...its outlook that of the scientist to whom "Religion is so remote from the subject of his research" that in the end it ceases to exist for him, and makes "the 'life everlasting' a phrase...

...The word "environment," however, is the key to the subtle, underlying pathos of this thoughtful and sincere record of a life helpfully, happily and nobly lived...

...As a diagnostician he is good...

...only indifference is not...

...For example, what we have in America is not scientific truth at all, but the "science" of the Sunday paper supplements which puffs up the business man, big or little, inflating him writh a sense of his own importance in a world of so many marvels...

...in his writing, and the introduction of phrases of a rather Elizabethan crudity result in nothing more than a sense of the poet's deliberate desire to look wicke4 in print...

...and from the fifth to the tenth century, Byzantium was the centre of all genuinely human activity...

...The career of the poor was not, of course, independent of Europe as a whole...

...Our author takes the stand that these successive inroads into the declining Roman empire had an absolutely catastrophic effect, turning all Europe into a wilderness, destroying the agencies of government and religion, almost banishing hope from, the breasts of men...

...Skrine has assayed the task of sifting out the wheat and giving it to the public in a single well-printed and illustrated volume, and for that the thanks of lovers of literary history are due to him...

...If one accepts merely the data presented by Mr...

...THE admirable sense of the rural traditions of her native Yorkshire, as well as a general conscience in her song and vision, has given Dorothy Una RatdifJe a special niche in the shrine of modern English poetry...

...I fear that the Babbitts will not be greatly helped by Mr...

...and, "Hate, too, is a form of conununity...

...to date, he is now only forty-seven years old...

...However, he really desires to be just...

...He can well afford to let it stand...

...As one looks on the beautiful features of Perdita one cannot but be reminded of the day on which Richmond Roy, in Meredith's novel, showed her picture hanging in some club to his boy Harry, the hero of the story, and with tears in his eyes said: "She) was my mother, my dear...

...Why just Anglo-Saxons...

...The very personal effect of his poetry is secured not by any rachitic gestures, or flaming passages, or smashing of household crockery...

...They can only be met successfully when it is as safe to meet them as it was to meet our own after the Civil War...

...Starling, by Christopher Ward...

...C. E. M. Joad's gravamen against us is chiefly a complaint against our superficiality...

...And Mr...

...And it was because this kindly, lovable man could not vision God behind the shifting veils of evolutionary change that he saw "the mockery of dogma" as the antithesis of "the highest spiritual development," and the chief article of his creed "the one sure, certain, permanent, eternal thing we can positively know anything about" became "the immortality of influence...

...But though he establishes his own centre, he traces the periphery with a sure hand...

...There is little doubt that Luther Burbank's memorable San Francisco address, the reaction from which Wilbur Hall calls the direct cause of his death, was widely misrepresented...

...Mammonart" stands between the artist and his market...

...and yet, for all that, the contemporary American scene stands out in bold relief under the searchlight of his words...

...But does this not mean a return to the lowly a r i s t ? R^^^J^^ R ^^^^_ Gossip About Dr...

...Not only does he refuse to exalt England at the expense of America, but he chides her for emulating America in almost everything...

...THOMAS WALSH...

...Returning to Emotion, by Maxwell Bodenheim...

...Dale Lyrics, hy Dorothy Una Ratcliffe...

...The World in the Making, by Count Hermann Keyserlin^f, translated by Maurice Samuel...

...Skrine may make a further inquisition into Laetitia's leavings—perhaps he might collect still another bouquet of anecdotes like that for which we have now to thank him...

...They are incurably optimistic and romantic...

...Netu York: Harcourt, Brace and Company...

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