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Walsh, James J. & Shuster, George N. & Hull, Robert R. & Boddington, Ernest F. & Stuart, Henry Longan
J Methodist Saint: The Life of Bishop Asbury, by Herbert Asbury. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $5.00. BISHOP FRANCIS ASBURY is not only the maker of American Methodism. He was one of the builders...
...Pour aller voir tous nos parents, Mes chers amis, le coeur content...
...He had voted' "reluctantly" for coercion...
...The author is manifestly of the opinion that plague is due to filth in general, and attributes the spread of plague to the lack of cleanliness of the mediaeval people...
...THIS is a book without an ounce of charm, and in which the facts are thrown together helter-skelter, which yet possesses real interest for the student of history and social customs...
...Unfortunately the information available about the creator of Moby Dick is too slight for the peculiar Brooks method and purpose...
...It is hard to think of any beneficent fairy that was excluded from the cradle of the man who was to become Britain's most respected ambassador at Washington, and the author of the preeminent handbook on America's Constitution...
...Since then there has been no more yellow fever in Cuba and it will soon be a thing of the past everywhere...
...It is with such facts, in the spirit of impartial truth, that the sociologist is concerned...
...Criticism has not been spared it...
...2.50...
...It is hard to believe that his heart was ever greatly in his Irish work, or that the appointment to Washington did not, reach him as a deliverance from present trouble...
...Coke, with other Methodist ministers whom Coke had ordained assisting as "co-consecrators," a mere "general superintendent" on December 27, 1784, at Baltimore...
...Today it is in the possession of the most partially enlightened...
...The inevitable result was that a great many of them died...
...Because they do, because they offer an interpretation of those things which are most intimate and most inherently characteristic of an interesting race, Mr...
...Its heart had never been wrung nor its nerves shaken...
...He was a great and omnivorous student, but no cloistered scholar...
...You must run home to your darlings...
...Iscariote and Le Juif Errant, the two loons at the far end, had grown tired of repeating their plain-chant dirge of the damned and on all sides the enduring mountains published peace to all good French-Canadians and all good fly-fishermen who understood the permanence of simple pleasures and the sterling rewards of patience...
...They represent his effort to avoid the tediousness which characterizes some of the really great works for minds devoted to the cares of our busy age...
...John Wesley very unwisely denounced the cause of the patriots, and prejudice against the Methodists was strengthened by the fact that not a few of the preachers boldly affiliated with the Tories or departed for the motherland at the beginning of the war...
...acts like the promise of a swim in cool waters on a warm afternoon...
...Geiger...
...Most of all, perhaps, there were the erratic currents of reform, contradicting calculation, sometimes defying common sense...
...Wherever the English tongue was spoken they went to plant their churches...
...It is eminently uncritical, and any and every sort of documentary evidence is quoted in it as of equal significance...
...At one time a band of between seventy and eighty Tory Methodist preachers was taken captive by an American detachment in Maryland...
...Then: is no doubt of his sincerity...
...Ij^RAGMENTS of the Emersonian personality...
...But for translate in the Henglish"— he shrugged expressively—"it is not easy, that...
...This is especially the case with songs of exile and homesickness...
...He thought only of the welfare of Methodism and avoided taking a definite stand...
...It is probably not altogether accidental that Mr...
...Songs of the home ties, of family reunions, of the farm and the farm favorites, of fun and frolic with neighbors, of paddling wide lakes and packing across wide portages that return may be made to nos parents—or to the maiden whose virtues as dutiful daughter and wonderful cook glow as steadily as her sweet eyes...
...When the student of American life as it is today, puzzled over the phenomena of increasing legal inhibitions and the tyranny of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals, casts up the account of American origins, he will find the name of Bishop Asbury, for weal or woe, writ large upon the record...
...David Hume, the English historian, is quoted as saying that "after the great fire the town, London, was rapidly reconstructed . . . and was much more healthy...
...Wesley's primacy of jurisdiction over American Methodists itself was repudiated in 1787 and he possessed, thereafter, only a certain primacy of honor...
...translated by Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt...
...The Golden Centipede, by Louise Gerard...
...Gibbon deserves praise as well as thanks for presenting them in a manner which preserves in English every accent of their significance in the original French...
...Undoubtedly the Methodists themselves in time will be obliged to admit that, of all the accounts of the rise of American Methodism heretofore written, Herbert Asbury's recently published tome is the liveliest and will inevitably prove the most attractive and interesting to the general reader...
...Two volumes...
...Charles Beard, perhaps the most luminous of Bryce's contemporary critics, is forced to admit that the book came at due time and, effected its purpose...
...with swimming, fishing, sailing, and long walks...
...When the severest epidemics occurred, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the finest characters among the religious and secular clergy devoted themselves to the plague-stricken regardless of the risk involved...
...Tipple, whilom missionary of the Methodists in Rome, to send his personal card, inscribed "Bishop of Rome," in to the Pope when once he was calling at the Vatican...
...Yet even Mr...
...New York: Harper and Brothers...
...He relentlessly pursued this end and has proven what perseverance may accomplish...
...HENRY LONGAN STUART...
...So long as we have the disgraceful condition of supporting as many rats in this country as there are inhabitants, there is always serious danger that we may have an epidemic, if a patient suffering from the disease should get into any of our ports...
...He himself never married...
...After those searching examinations of Mark Twain and Henry James, one had expected something more...
...of the habitant, is the frequent reference to the cities of the older country—Nantes and Rouen, Paris and La Rochelle...
...His undersecretary, Sir Anthony McDonnell, from whom, by virtue perhaps of Celtic blood and Catholic faith, the sentimental mysticism which has always been mingled with harshness in AngloIrish dealings seems to have expected some miracle of conciliation, turned out harsh and unpopular instead, and "looked at the problems of Irish government from the angle of an Indian bureaucrat...
...These songs are the very photograph of Jean Baptiste—they propound his philosophy, they project his whole outlook on life...
...It is hard reading, but the facts are there buttressed by a wealth of anecdote and illustration...
...Brooks's vivid chapters contain so many references to swimming...
...Niebuhr, the German historian, quoted by Nohl in his preface, appreciated this moral effect of the plague and the tendency to degeneration of the race after epidemics, and has traced it at various periods in history...
...There was Boston turning the pages of new foreign books without coming upon anything more challenging than its own weird Alcott, or the neighboring Thoreau...
...He and the Methodists were the first to congratulate General George Washington, and this forehandedness was the greatest single factor in convincing the Americans that the Methodists, as a religious body, were not un-American...
...The rat flea is, in similar fashion, the great carrier of the plague...
...and it is only fitting that he should have been beloved and appreciated in his latter years by the denomination for which he had done the work of a pioneer apostle...
...Soon we heard more, for Andre began to sing...
...Unfortunately the directions are too many...
...New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons...
...Bryce's brief tenure of the most thorny post in the British cabinet ended, as so many tenures before his had ended, in a sort of glorified district visiting, in suggestions for the old, old palliatives in the shape of fishery grants and a scheme for higher education, the latter found afterward by his successor to be none too clear...
...For the first time since the days of De Tocquevilla," says Mr...
...The founder of Methodism, after the Anglican bishops had refused to ordain him ministers for the American circuits, had gradually come around to the view that the powers of bishops werei inherent in the priesthood and did not derive from a special grace of orders...
...If we except the precious gift of children, which was denied him, it is hard to see a single ebb or cross-current in a life that flowed on, full, strong and steady, to its painless close in sleep...
...Can anyone be surprised to find that this man has left his stamp upon American society...
...Munch's delineation of the Home of Fogs, the Home of Desolation, the abodes of giants, and demiurges one gathers a picture of hideous powers and cruelties that is hardly relieved by the brighter worlds of elves and dwarfs...
...A predominance of less devoted and less selfsacrificing clergymen were left to the immediately succeeding generations...
...Kipling was much happier in his story of the inhabitants of a town in the middle-ages who got the idea that rats might be carriers of the disease after seeing them gnaw the bodies of victims, and proceeded to clear the town of rats with the consequent eradication of the scourge...
...Six vignettes of the greati man, in all of which he is busily whetting his inner sharpness against whatever of stone presents itself...
...This accounts much more for the evil reactions to the plague than does the supposedly natural deterioration of human character when it is placed under severe trial...
...Nohl's book has the not uncommon fault of not drawing a reasonably clear line between the middle-ages and modern times...
...I turned to Valentin, guide andj friend—and at all times philosopher...
...Some there were, even among his fellowpreachers, who said he purposed to make himself the "Pope of American Methodism...
...Why is not the music preserved in books, like the music of the common people of Scotland and Ireland and England, and with the music the words—^perhaps translated in such manner that the spirit of the soil of old Quebec may be revealed to those who now sit in darkness so far as knowledge of the real habitant is concerned ?" "There is one book of the French word and many of the tune," answered Val...
...Commentators have suggested that it is too exclusively a political history, and that economic facts, to which the new school attaches the leading role, are given only a secondary place...
...La Visite du Jour de I'An...
...One must confess to a feeling of some horror at the contemplation of this Valhalla of the North...
...first order once more companioned with the serenity and optimism that was the happy lot through life of Viscount Bryce of Darchmont...
...until it was quite apparent that victory would perch upon the American banners...
...Bryce's outstanding achievement, and one which, as time passes, is not likely to diminish in popular esteem, was his great book on the American commonwealth...
...His ungrateful collateral descendant takes it for granted...
...Asbury never relaxed his hold over the faithful...
...New York: E. P. Button and Company...
...Yet, even in a life so ideally conditioned to make the best of both worlds, success was balanced by failure...
...Perhaps he is really not manageable...
...Sinclair ought not to be putting a baby in a good humor when the real task is disciplining a man...
...A priest who stay with me one week two-three year ago, he show me...
...After one brief and rather surprising interlude in youth when the Catholic Church appealed to the historian in him (on what other grounds it is not quite clear) his religious convictions settled down into a quiescent behaviorism that lasted him to the end of his days...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...French Society in the Eighteenth Century, by Louis Ducros...
...The memorial td Randolph Bourne is a fine indication of that friendly alertness to other people's efforts which has always characterized Mr...
...ROBERT R. HULL...
...But at the end one confronts the distressing fact that no whole can be fashioned out of a handful of fragments...
...and when, at one time, he was reproached by some...
...with mountain climbing, for which he had a passion...
...of the fair sex who felt themselves insulted because he had not taken one of their number to wife, he replied that no living woman could have the grace to live with her husband one week out of every fifty-two...
...JAMES J. WALSH...
...He was one of the builders of America...
...The volume emphasizes particularly the sensational and evil side of the reaction to the plague after the fashion of the modern newspaper with regard to news...
...ERNEST F . BODDINGTON...
...Brooks as a critic...
...That is a conclusion dictated not so much by what one already surmises about Emerson as by Mr...
...However, it is now known that plague is not due to dirt in general, but to the presence of the rat flea, which carries the disease from infected rats to human beings...
...but all had married in a period of from six weeks to three months...
...3.00...
...He had physical courage as well as strength and welcomed risk as the salt of existence...
...translated from the French by W. de...
...Epidemics carry off particularly the unselfish who care for others...
...Emerson and Others, by Van JVyck Brooks...
...By departing slightly from the literal in the translation of Vive la Canadienne...
...On a certain circuit the women were especially avid in the pursuit of clerical husbands...
...This led to the torture of a number of perfectly innocent people and to the execution of some of them...
...Moreover, it is but fair to the author to say that, within his acknowledged limitations, it was not at all his intention to present another of those "biographies of the Holy Ghost" which the average "Life" of Asbury, written by the Methodist eulogist, undoubtedly is...
...Bryce laid bare the anatomy and morphology of politics—rings, bosses, frauds, machines, intrigue and chicane...
...Before leaving for America, indeed, he had been charged with entertaining such ambitions...
...They are all the same," I said...
...It is not, and yet J. Murray Gibbon, praiseworthy pyoet, successful novelist and sympathetic student of all matters pertaining to French-Canada, has produced a volume which will be welcomed with gratitude by many, not merely because in it are collected the words and music of a number of the oldest and most popular of the habitant's songs, but because, with the French lines, are translations which preserve in English all the spontaneity, all the gaiety, all the sentiment and all the occasional dolor of the original...
...But in the end they will thank him...
...the Bishop chided his clergy...
...As the translator of this collection points out, this also extends to things, as, for example, when in Marianne s'en va-t-au Moulin the maiden is said to have had a donkey for a pony—the donkey being virtually unknown in Quebec To study the folk songs of any people is to discover early in the pleasurable pursuit how many of the themes developed have parallels in presentation in other countries...
...Notwithstanding this fact, in preparing the minutes of the general conference which met at the same time, Asbury inserted the account of his "consecration" with his title given as bishop...
...His failure came in a country wrhich had been the grave of many a fair reputation before him...
...This enhanced the tendency to abuses of various kinds, which finally created the state of affairs that led up to the Reformation...
...Fisher tells us, "by Unionists and Nationalists...
...Evangelical readers may not be pleased with the ofttimes irreverent style of the author of Up from Methodism and they may entertain dark thoughts toward Herbert...
...Cblonel Waring, who had done such a fine job in cleaning up New York, was the director, and accomplished his purpose very well...
...The rest of the book—mutely bearing witness that there should have been more of Emerson—is luminous enough as far as it goes...
...He may leave to other more passionate souls the tasks of assisting or resisting the further progress of the Methodist conquest of America...
...Brooks deals with all in the language of the journals and the essays, seeking to build a pattern rather than to devise the materials...
...Louis: B. Herder Book Company...
...There was nature, the great symbol of tautness, giving instruction in the art of stripping oneself of non-essentials...
...The plague not only depopulates and kills, it gnaws the moral stamina and frequently destroys it entirely...
...So profound was the stillness, that when a tiny smear showed on this ever-darkening mantle in the direction of Micheauville's landing, far over to the left, we were able to distinguish the dip of the paddle...
...He and his itinerants pushed into the wHildemess, north and south and west...
...1 HESE Retreat Conferences are a selection of addresses delivered by the Dominican author during the course of many years...
...1.75...
...In such epidemics the best are invariably carried off and the survivors deteriorate morally...
...Like a good historian...
...The origin of disease, however, is always something very specific...
...Soon after arriving he was made "general assistant" by the authority of John Wesley, who preferred that those in charge of districts should not be called bishops...
...BRIEFER MENTION Norse Mythology, by Peter Andreas Munch...
...Notes on Herman Melville might well been developed into a goodly volume, had the author been interested in doing so...
...His appointment as Chief Secretary for Ireland on the heels of the Liberal landslide of 1903, unless it were intended as window-dressing for the benefit of the strong Protestant non-conformist element which had rolled up the ballots, is hard to understand...
...and Asbury came to be known, not only to Methodists but to all other Americans, as Bishop Asbury...
...His book made a sensation among those wrho, to use Ruskin's phrase, had sat at the banquet—blindfolded...
...The most lucid intelligence now active in America ought, one thinks, to have managed a little better with the sage of Concord...
...One such melody of melancholy included in this collection under the title of Un Canadien Errant, is a comparatively recent plaint set to the music of an older chanson, the original thought of which (the willingness of the lover to be transformed into beast, bird or fish to pursue his mistress until he shall win her) has been expressed in the folk songs of England, Italy, Spain, Greece, Roumania, Czecho-SIovakia, Poland and Serbia...
...Von Heidenstamm in his Tree of the Folkungs conveyed this side of paganism with a realism both splendid and terrible, and from Dr...
...The prospect of a day when political panaceas, fading like so many Fata Morgana, should leave the ugly escarpment of economic fact to be scaled or blasted away with endless toil and stress, was actual only to a few embittered and unhappy prophets...
...This song, by the way, is one of those in which modern words have been set to the tune of an old French chanson...
...His health was rugged, his early life and education unmarred by the domestic infelicities and struggles that overshadowed John Morley's...
...What is of very great interest is that Asbury strongly advocated a celibate clergy for his Methodists...
...THOUGH this volume is full of information, it is likely to leave many wrong impressions...
...how he wished that the preachers could have been even as himself fully consecrated tq God with a love of immortal souls that would not allow itself to be impeded by worldly cares...
...Canadian Folk Songs, Old and New, selected and translated by J. Murray Gibbon...
...but yellow fever proceeded to rage more violently than ever, and Waring himself fell a victim to it...
...Mention of -^ them whets the appetite...
...2.50...
...4.00...
...It may seem strange to find cruelty so close to us, but it wasi ^t this same period, the seventeenth century, that an immense number of deaths for witchcraft— probably over 100,000—were inflicted...
...AMANTLE of dark purple was enveloping Lac Quenouille...
...Six hundred years before, the epidemic, really in the nature of yellow fever, at Athens, coincided too exactly with the decay of the best period of antiquity not to be regarded as its cause...
...Munch, begins his book at the earliest findings in history, and presents a subject about which there has been considerable confusion, with simplicity and clearness...
...The old warrior, filled with holy fire for the rescue of souls, came straight from the haunts of John Wesley in England...
...Asbury's idea of the matter was somewhat different, not to say even more interesting...
...At last he sent two preachers, who were decrepit old men, to the place...
...The man is all spring, elasticity...
...The worst part of humanity, the cowardly runaways or those who slink into hiding, are left by an unfortunate natural selection to propagate the race...
...His labors on constitutional history were pleasingly punctuated with constant travel...
...AN ENTERTAINING mystery story that owes much more to the carefully tied knots in its plot and the charming personalities in the romance that develops stealthily under the reader's eye, than to the thick spread of verbiage that lays a sticky trap of African weird horrors, ju-ju charms, poison centipedes and human sacrifice, about all of the movements of the arch-outlaw, his feminine double, and the Englishman of keen mind and susceptible heart who relentlessly pursues the first twin while he falls in love with the second...
...What they gained for Methodism was due to the inspiring example and constant prodding of Bishop Asbury...
...The nuns for whom the attempt was made must judge of the author's success, and other enlightened readers may profit spiritually by his clear method...
...One fact, which has been frequently noted by those interested in song...
...Asbury, however, was unmoved...
...There were a number of finely humanitarian reactions, involving the greatest possible self-sacrifice, that might have been given a much larger place...
...Brooks's book—or rather, what one may assume was going to be his book—breaks off abruptly at the middle...
...His marriage, rather late in life, gave him an ideal companion for all his activities, and a gracious hostess for his home...
...James Bryce (Viscount Bryce of Darchmont, O. M.J by H. A. L. Fisher, Warden of New Colleffe, Oxford...
...The plague, which generally broke out with great violence twice or thrice a century, and in fact every time appeared first in the most filthy comer of the town, has never been heard of since this great misfortune...
...Such serene, well-rounded lives as Bryce's are no portent...
...but the old gentlemen married within two months...
...A great many years seem fated to pass, and a considerable volume of water to run under bridges before we shall see an intellectual equipment of the...
...Some of the worst reactions to the plague are as modern as the sixteenth and even the seventeenth century...
...Comparatively few of the favorites of fireside and forest camp are modern both in music and in words, while quite a number of those most frequently heard are the ballads of France in the middle-ages, sung to the original tunes which, in some cases, have passed out of use in the France of today while they persist among the descendants of the pioneers of what was once New France...
...There are too many of them to permit of any such theory...
...These things and others help to round out a book which is always discerning and well-done...
...Asbury had sent preacher after preacher...
...But in any appreciable number they are always the product of special conditions, of an interlude in world history, when liberty and authority have arrived at a compromise that allows the present to be static and the future apparently foreseen...
...In addition, the Liberal philosopher, with his naive belief in the value of compromise, soon found himself at loggerheads with both sections among a people whom harsh experience had convinced) that the days of compromise were numbered...
...Take, for example...
...When the Americans took over Cuba, they cleaned up Havana, confident that, once that was accomplished, yellow fever would be no more...
...and it is certain that he believed the welfare of American Methodism to be bound up with his own prominence and leadership in Methodistic circles...
...Indeed, almost as soon as a territory gained as much as 500 inhabitants, it was sure to have a Methodist circuit-rider and a Methodist church...
...The devil and the women," he complained on one occasion, were getting his preachers...
...During the Revolutionary War the status of the Methodists was a ticklish question...
...2.00...
...for he has succeeded, in spite of all his cavilings against the Methodist God, in making his stern and unrelenting collateral ancestor emerge as an almost living figure...
...Brooks's own interesting pages...
...The very Emersonian phrase is like a splash in some stream—a vigorous cutting across the inertia of language, of stale linguistic depxisits...
...and from this godly man, there can scarcely be a doubt, other Methodists have learned how to "pull wires" in state and general conferences and do their most effective work behind the scenes of civil, as well as ecclesiastical, government...
...IF THE Early Life and Letters of John Morley, reviewed in The Commonweal of May 18, leaves us with the impression of a man somehow frustrated and low-spirited behind all the facade of worldly success, the biography of James Bryce by the Warden of New College, Oxford, offers us, in contrast, the picture of a life almost ideally happy from its boyhood to its close in ripe and serene age...
...Beard, in The Rise of American Civilization, just published, "a philosophic foreigner, this time an Englishman, had surveyed the w^hole American tableau, as someone remarked, 'over the rim of a champagne glass,' and described it with elaborate precision...
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...The author does some justice to the good work of Saint Charles Borromeo in the seventeenth century, but there are many other instances of conduct as noble as his...
...Not much that has been written about Emerson is so virile and effective...
...harmonizations by Geoffrey OfHara and Oscar O'Brien...
...He was an adroit ecclesiastical polirician...
...What is said of Upton Sinclair's novels is pertinent and decisive...
...It is important to note this because there is an impression in the minds of certain educated people at the present time that generic dirt causes disease...
...He was "consecrated" by Dr...
...the full swing of this jolly story in song of the country wedding with its feasting and dancing is maintained in the English stanzas...
...What John Wesley had hesitated even so much as to whisper, fearing that he would thereby irremediably prejudice the Anglicans toward his cause, Asbury proclaimed with confidence...
...The equestrian statue, unveiled in Washington on October 15, 1924, by President Cbolidge, was a well-deserved tribute to his memory...
...And the Methodists alone had bishops and ministers truly ordained and consecrated...
...Defoe, for instance, is cited as having written "a masterly history of the plague in London," quite as if he had been an eye-witness, though he wrote his Journal of the Plague Year some sixty years after it was over, and wrote it, moreover, very much as he did Robinson Crusoe, having in view solely the making of a good story...
...His faculty for making friends kept the circle of his intiinates replenished with new blood until the end...
...The church, which Asbury found a "puling infant" when he landed at Philadelphia in 1771 and which he left "a lusty youngster whose holy bawling had been heard from the Atlantic to the Mississippi" at his death, is a force in American life with which one is obliged to reckon...
...translated by C. H. Clarke...
...Liberalism was its evangel, a belief in perfectability its comfort when danger threatened...
...He was impartially boycotted," Mr...
...It gives a careful and generally unbiased picture of the times, and leaves the reader with an adequate impression of the reasons for the Revolution...
...decorations by Frank H. Johnston...
...A VALUABLE book, the excellence of which is vouched for by the high standing and scholarship of Peter Andreas Munch and his pupil, the reviser, Magnus Olsen, is Norse Mythology, Legends of Gods and Heroes of Ancient Norway...
...But unfortunately swimming is only an exercise...
...From a line of Scotch-Irish covenanting ancestors he inherited sterling independence of character, a love for simple and accessible pleasures, and also the philosophic fervor that leaves little room for doubts and questionings...
...The nineteenth century, through the greater part of which both Bryce and Morley, born in the same year, lived, was such an epoch...
...thus the sudden demoralization of Roman society from the period of Mark Antony may be explained by the oriental plague...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...The Black Death: A Chronicle of the Plague, compiled by Johannes Nohl from contemporary sources...
...New York: The American Scandinavian Foundation...
...It gets nothing done, is no commendable method of travel...
...Not only had the apostolicl orders of the primitive Church of Christ been restored in form—they had also been restored in substance through John Wesley to a Christendom that had lost the pabulum...
...It is not at all impossible that the audacious precedent set by Asbury inspired the Reverend Mr...
...And as he sang, I realized that Andre swinging an axe at our woodpile and suggesting happiness rather than harmony in song, was an altogether different Andre from this one who now made time with his paddle for the rendition of a FrenchCanadian classic of the open, mellowed by the wide stretch of water and murmured in refrain by the encompassing hills...
...The sad results are felt for several generations until nature has righted the wrong...
...The author is a professor in the University of Aix, and his book possesses both the virtues and faults of the purely academic mind...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...but he impressively pointed to his scars, his benevolences, and his sufferings to extend the cause of Methodism, asking if they really believed there was any likeness between himself and the glorious Pope of Rome...
...Similarly, one somehow never arrives at any goal with Emerson...
...It takes up in detail life in Versailles, Paris and the provinces, with a concluding section devoted to Public Opinion in the Eighteenth Century...
...The old) leader continually exhorted his preachers to greater and greater sacrifices...
...To be absolutely safe, he persuaded himself also that the apostolic succession had been lost in the darkness of the middle-ages, and that he had been sent of God to restore it in form, in view of the present necessity, if not in substance...
...Fisher admits that "nobody was less likely to sympathize with the Catholic Irishmen of the South thari a Scottish Presbyterian, born in Belfast...
...Cardinal Gasquet wrote a book on the Black Death because it represents an extremely important chapter in the history of the Church...
...The full significance to the French-Canadian of New Year's Day—the day of the whole year, the day on which quarrels with neighbors are composed, the responsibilities of parents are reaffirmed and the duties of children are accentuated and joyfully accepted —is disclosed with rare discernment in the English verses which tell of the daughter "in service" who returns on the first day of the year to kneel ior a blessing before the work-worn father coming in from his winter chores...
...During the seventeenth century, it was a generally accepted idea that malicious people could, by smearing ointments of various kinds on the doors of houses, cause the spread of the plague...
...There are many valuable notes and appendices which give the book a particular significance...
...Many of the details that he gives are quite as fictitious as those in the latter masterpiece...
...It is a pity that Bishop Asbury is not as well known to Americans in general as he is to the Methodists, albeit in the overdrawn lineaments of the demigod the eulogists have made him...
...The result is most interesting...
...Then came the investigation by Walter Reed and his companions, which revealed the Stegomyia mosquito as the carrier of the disease...
...Retreat Conferences for Religious Sisterhoods, by Reverend A. M. Skelly, O.P...
...Only bring to it a taste as yet uncloyed with jungle jinnees, and an ability to shiver and chill in the shadow of creeping bugs and prowling panthers, and The Golden Centipede will afford one an evening of thrills...
...This risk is emphasized by the fact that squirrels, another family of rodents, infected with plague and capable of transmitting it, were found in California many miles from San Frandsco when plague cases got into that port...
...Bishop it remained, in spite of all the imprecations called down upon his head by John Wesley...
...Times of plague are always those in which the bestial and diabolical side of human nature gains the upper hand...
...GEORGE N. SHUSTER...
Vol. 6 • June 1927 • No. 5
