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The Letters of Mrs. Thrale, selected with an introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. London: John Lane. $1.80. NOW that scholars are culling from the immense store of letters and memoirs of the...
...She is brought before Christ by Teron, to confound the new prophet, and is sent on her way with the command to sin no more...
...This healthy sanity of viewpoint, which draws the line between matter and spirit, is as commendable as the easy narrative tone in which the author comments the exhibits he draws from the wonder-bag of the concrete...
...Piozzi sung...
...RAYMOND'S study on the teaching of the early Church on the use of wine and strong drink is thorougn and well documented...
...Recent Developments in the Social Sciences: A Symposium...
...Since (in the century before this) the old Countess of Desmond, according to Irish tradition, came to an untimely end at the age of 120 in the County of Waterford by falling out of a cherry tree which she had climbed to pick its fruit, there can hardly have been two more sporting old ladies than Zenobia and her neighbor...
...Mackenzie whom Mr...
...GRENVILLE VERNON...
...2.00, THIS author writes his novel under an impulse strongly romantic...
...The question of frankness in modern fiction has received a wide and varied treatment which has not, however, been as general or as exhaustive as occasion ha^ permitted it to be...
...All too often attempts at scientific popularization needlessly confuse the reader by the obtrusion of matters with which science has nothing to do...
...Fletcher most admires and resembles...
...and tirosh wasi usually intoxicating when ready for use...
...A prospectus of the work informs us that the contributors were chosen "not only because of their knowledge of their subjects, but also because of their skill in imparting it...
...3.50...
...In experience and disposition the two are much akin, and though Mr...
...Montague was brilliant in diamonds, solid in judgment, critical in talk...
...It can be cordially recommended to anyone who is interested in this question...
...On the contrary, he has one terrible chapter on the iniquities of the czarist regime, and one of his chief points of view is that Sovietism is in many respects a development out of czarist tyranny on the one hand and Russian apocalyptic sectarianism on the other—^with one very important addition, namely, the trend to the ultra-industrialist conception of society...
...The beautiful Doris wanders in the desert...
...The characters and scenes, though not achieved by adventuresome or original means, are credible and engaging, and the whole romance is relieved by a tone of sympathy and clear-headed sincerity which warrants an interest in what the author will, in the future, do with his ideas...
...Thrale, if anything of the kind was ever in the wind, was in no way willing, nor did she for a moment admit that Johnson was, as he evidently desired to be, the dictator of her doings...
...Of late years he has had a change of heart, which has gone so far as to lead him into a shocking diatribe against the younger generation...
...Poor Mrs...
...The author's study of the Einstein theory in some thirty-five pages, modestly enough entitled A Glance Toward Relativity, is a good example of his ability, to give a generally understandable transcript of a very complex and elusive theorem...
...Johnson was one of his executors and there must always be a suspicion that he thought he might well take Thrale's place in the affections of the widow and at the fireside of Streatham...
...In the post-mythological times when philosophy was being born there was no real distinction between that subject and science...
...But leaving this aspect of the encyclopaedia out of consideration altogether, one discovers in it an alertness to find and evaluate interesting knowledge, a high regard for scientific minutiae and an equally high respect for the average inquiring mind, which would entitle the work to general esteem were its origin and management entirely different from what they are...
...Of these writers it is Mr...
...Somerset Maugham did it with a fine pen dipped in acid...
...among both Jews and Christians there were various comparatively small groups dedicated to total abstinence...
...A vast number of topics are to be dealt with concisely, in a popular manner, factually rather than philosophically...
...How then did he figure as a lawyer at all ? He was one of those who were called chamber lawyers, who got up the law for others to lay it before the courts...
...he who, in the result, Sovietism, produced a remarkable approximation to the ideal often alleged by "proletarian" orators to be peculiar to the super-capitalist state, to the United States, to Great Britain or Germany—the ideal of the complete mechanization of the worker...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...And in this connection the chapter on What Is Science Becoming?, with its classification of the "acknowledged" and "disputed" sciences—among the latter psychoanalysis, on behaviorist testimony, is dismissed as "junk"—^is by no means the least interesting...
...and they emphasize what ought to be...
...NOW that scholars are culling from the immense store of letters and memoirs of the period of Samuel Johnson these extracts of most interest, students of that period who have neither the time nor the patience to wade through the original works are enabled to read what is most to the point in them in selections...
...but there was never an orthodox movement to eliminate wine altogether as evil in itself, nor to compel everyone by civil law to be total abstainers...
...Pepys panted with admiration"—the physician -who attended George HI in his insanity, a man of note in his day...
...and such fame as they may reap from years of hard work might have been trebled in some more alluring form of activity...
...It must have been a galling position for a man really learned in the law to feel that he must thus submit to having his learning distilled through some much less competent person, and doubtless stimulated his unceasing labors for emancipation...
...Freedom is a bourgeoisi prejudice" was Lenin's slogan...
...The fact that she did introduce this sentence is, however, significant...
...all that was needed was the impression of a powerful personality, and that was found in Lenin, to whose demagogic genius the writer devotes a notable chapter...
...There are not enough of them and they are sometimes not up to date...
...2.50...
...But he does show, by word and picture, by appeal to Soviet philosophy and the day-to-day life of factory and, school, that it is being made, on a more formidable and conscious scale than history has ever known before...
...Evangelical scenes are sketched in with feeling, but the Crucifixion is indirectly presented by Doris of Colossae's chronicle of the influence of that dark day in a far-off town...
...A second critical comment might be directed at the bibliographies...
...Fortune left them because he realized that they were better without the ministrations of the Christian faith, but all she proves is that they certainly were better without the ministrations of Mri Fortune...
...One expects, too, a more extended account of cultural history...
...WE MUST go back to the Greeks for the beginnings of serious thought...
...The article on psychology limits too much the jKychological field that is of interest to the social sciences...
...Vienna: Amalthea-Verlaff...
...they find a place for free will even when they theoretically deny it...
...Bearing in mind that Universal Knowledge has no religious purpose, it is surprising to find how much information has been compiled here either about religion or about the matters between which and religion there exists a definite relation...
...It is exquisitely written, with many passages of haunting poetry, the beauty of the manner all but concealing the weakness of the matter...
...According to this fascinating book, it is the keynote to what is being attempted inl Russia today...
...Universal Knowledge will profit by getting the help of as many good men as is practically possible...
...We can, finally, look into the working-men's clubs, the workshops, the farms, the proletarian theatres, and see the progress of that mechanization of social life which the writer insists is one of the most marked features of the Soviet system...
...Indeed, reading this volume, one is struck by the progress made in social theory, and one wants the facts they have collected utilized by more Catholic students of social life...
...Piozzi had much trouble with her property and it is interesting to note that in one of her lawsuits her legal adviser was Charles Butler, the author of The Book of the Church, and the constant antagonist of Bishop Milner throughout the fight over the Veto...
...New York: The Vikinff Press...
...As one reads this book, outlines flash before the mind of numerous studies that Catholics might make upon what the old principles of Catholic morals call for in the changing conditions of an industrialized world...
...Silver Cities of Yucatan, by Gregory Mason...
...The book, however, is not a mere album of photographs accompanied by a perfunctory and superficially-written text...
...She has style, a sense of humor, and a mastery of that rarest of literary virtues—understatement...
...The present book is really only one chapter in the history of the Church's attitude on the drink problem...
...Lord John Qinton attentive...
...he was to be her second husband...
...Now the bibliographies, be it said in all charity, are the weak link in the chain of Universal Knowledge...
...Thrale was not greatly attached to his wife nor she to him...
...Studies are needed of the groups in our society, of the relations between them, of the form of organizations these groups require to attain their just position, of inter-group organization, of the relative importance of these groups in relation to their functions both now and in a rightly ordered society, of the sanctities the individual should possess before the group and society, and of how these sanctities are to be defended...
...For the first, it is illustrated with a lavishness so far unequaled...
...The author of this book has done a service to students in giving them a brief account of the progress of science from the earliest times though there may be difference of opinion as to his findings on some points...
...Then but a short time ago I had the pleasure of reviewing in The Commonweal a book of extracts from the writings of Laetitia Hawkins, daughter of one of Johnson's biographers...
...Among novelists nowadays fame and fortune are twin handmaids...
...Fortune's Maggot, Miss Warner tells the story of a Church of England missionary to a South Sea Island who makes a single convert and then loses his own faith, and who, in a last cynical gesture before departing, carves for his convert another idol to take the place of the one which he had lost...
...They have no hope of making more money than will be required to cover the expenses of the undertaking...
...Fortunately the field has already been well spaded and the seed has been sown...
...She was a Celt, too, being a Welsh lady of ancient* family, Hester Lynch Salusbury, who had early been married to the wealthy London brewer, Thrale...
...R. A. McGowAN...
...THE many writing years of Irving Bacheller have contained diverse adventures...
...These things having been said, one may hasten to compliment the editors upon the first evidence of a work loftily conceived, nobly executed, and destined to be of great service to many...
...we ought to do...
...She determined to marry for the second time to please herself, and chose Piozzi, to the intense wrath of Johnson ; of her children, apparently an odious pack...
...Geist und Gedcht des Bolschewismus, by Rene Fiilop-Miller...
...in the Christian view wine was considered as intrinsically good, though the evils of abuse were clearly recognized...
...It was he who completed the westernization of Russia which Peter the Great, working entirely against the natural genius and tradition of the Russian people, began...
...The v - / old maxim was clearly beneficent in so far as the completion of the Catholic Encyclopedia led to the beginnings of Universal Knowledge, in which the whole range of human learning is to be exhibited from a strictly scientific but nevertheless Catholic point of view...
...To begin with, there is the truly admirable Dr...
...Bacheller, however, has selected his phase of history with discrimination...
...They know more now of the "law written in their own hearts" and more of the law written in nature...
...Whatever his avocation, he had made a good deal of money by it, for in one of those letters his wife relates what very considerable sums Piozzi had paid to free her house of mortgages, and on building a new abode in Wales...
...It seems to be a fact that Mrs...
...In fact, he writes throughout in a clear direct style, and if his book's subtitle, The Incredible Discoveries of Recent Science, be a trifle sensational—all popularization has its inherent weaknesses—^ it does convey much interesting information accurately and on logically grounded premises...
...If this sounds patronizing, it is not really so...
...It was the firm conviction of a great Catholic scholar and encyclopaedist, now deceased, that what is needed more than anything else from the point of view of religious life in this country is what might be termed a "bibliographical encyclopaedia"—a work evaluating books written on every important subject, so that a consulting reader may have a reliable guide through whatever course of reading he wishes to pursue...
...Fletcher's one day producing an important work in this field...
...The always admired genuineness is therei if this frank expression is given to the emotions and to the prejudices of the writer, and the result may be as noteworthy whether it is arrived at by the means of David Garnett or of Elinor Wylie, of Walter de la Mare or of Compton Mackenzie...
...His conclusions can be briefly summarized as follows: The wines mentioned in the Bible, with the exception of tirosh, can be regarded as possessing intoxicating qualities...
...This was the original "blue-stocking," doyenne of the literary tea-parties of the time...
...and escapes with him...
...The customary appeal of a charming tale of tragedy in love out of which a new life grows is here...
...Mary Was Love thus turns out to be a conventional story of a sort we yet stop to read and admire because the intention is artistically honest, the manner affectionate, and the motive as sincere as the viewpoint it advocates is sound...
...Moreover it shows that the newer school of social scientists know fewer things that are not so than did their predecessors, and more things thatj are so...
...Bowdler lame"—this was the man from whose treatment of Shakespeare we get the term "to bowdlerise...
...It presents a record of indefatigable work in the collection of vast information...
...finally is given to Apollos the converted Jew...
...and of Fanny Burney, little prig that she was at heart, who was afterward herself to marry a foreigner and a dull one, which Piozzi was not...
...Barnes's article on history, while it shows a great knowledge of the history of history and a keen appreciation of the fact that history is a record of everything man has done and not merely an account of wars, politics and great men, is vitiated by flippant blasphemy...
...We have a head start on the secularist school because we have a body of principles...
...Fortune...
...If indirect description was good enough for Homer, it is quite good enough for him...
...AMONG recent volumes of scientific popularization Hen• shaw Ward's Exploring the Universe may be praised, aside from aught else, fori considering its subjects—matter and life— on the thoroughly logical basis that ". . . science cannot lay a finger upon a spiritual religion...
...to his readers—his only fault, and a grave one...
...These are, of course, but the preliminaries to royalties...
...Dawn, hy Irving Bacheller...
...In his style many devices and phrases recall Carnival, and The Vanity Girl, and in theme there is a clear reference to the youth adventure as the author of Sinister Street, and Guy and Pauline has given it...
...The extraordinary temper of the period and the grandeur of its characters elude recreation...
...This having been said, one may be pardoned a few critical comments expressed in the hope that they may be of some service in the preparation of future volumes...
...All of which Mr...
...Where Elmer Gantry was a moral weakling, Mr...
...Mary Was Love, by Guy Fletcher...
...With this exception, most of the material for the formation of the Bolshevik state was ready to hand before 1917...
...EDWIN CLARK...
...2.00...
...Miss Warner has employed another method...
...T. C. Mr...
...But there is, certainly, a kind of frankness in the work of the romantic imagination which we must be fully as careful to define if the issues behind the narrative craft are not to become thoroughly confused...
...Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott an4 Company...
...MORTON DAUWEN ZABEL...
...FREDERICK H. MARTENS...
...And we may be allowed to hope that either Mr...
...The total impression may be summed up in Herr Fiilop-Miller's words: "A world is in the process of becoming in Russia, a world with no personal joy in life, with pictures lacking color, music lacking harmony, Weltanschauung lacking the interior principles of intelligence, a mechanized world in which there will be only soulless human beings," in a word, a vast experiment in producing a new biological type of superman without soul or imagination...
...They are worth considering with the notes that Mr...
...The pre-revolution mechanistic physiological experiments of Pavlov, who reduced the human body to a bundle of chemical reactions and glandular reflexes, prepared the way for the ap^ plication a entrance of the Marxist doctrine of economic determinism in which mechanical futurist music, a Taylor-system of unexampled efficiency, a machine-like conception of the theatre, and an education fitted for Robots, were all harnessed in the service of the state...
...It is good to see them come forward, almost in mass formation, enabled at last to elicit some attention from the public...
...We can see what the central part of the Kremlin looks like now that the cult of Lenin (efficiently embalmed by a German chemist and "good for seventy years," as someone has remarked) has been substituted for the devotion to the Blessed Virgin...
...they are more humble...
...those who were present on a certain occasion...
...In it he essays a theme that has failed far better talents than his own...
...Sylvia Townsend Warner is not the first woman writer to assume the sceptical attitude, nor will she be the last, for it is both comforting and profitable to be in the fashion...
...The editor of this book thinks those letters were tampered with, and quotes none of them...
...Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company...
...The man of action in the book prevails over the man of the pen, and we can only regret the grey matter-of-fact tone of the volume...
...But the book is very interesting in both parts, that in which the whole subject is traced historically, and that in which each branch receives separate treatment...
...Perhaps, though, Miss Warner meant only to tell another amusing story...
...Fortune is an intellectual weakling, and while we are told to believe that he loses his faith, it needs but half a thought to realize that he never had any...
...His book is a carefully detailed account of new discoveries and examinations of ruins of temples, cities and watch-towers, with a running narrative of the daily adventures of the MasonSpinden expedition...
...Brimley Johnson might have given but does not give...
...Her husband had long preceded her...
...One would like to see articles also on ethics and on social jurisprudence, both national and international...
...JOHN STAPLETON...
...At any rate Butler is one of the numerous interesting persons who crops up in these letters...
...Nevertheless, one hopes that the large number of similar contributors still available will be drawn upon for ensuing volumes...
...In the end she finds peace as the story-teller of Colossae revealing the new faith...
...History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity, by Arnold Reymond...
...Catholic backgrounds, and the colorful movement of contemporary life with such effect as the older writer, he approaches his task with the same delight and intention, and his novel has much the same appeal...
...Professor Merriam in his article on political science passes over many important recent developments in too cavalier a fashion...
...The work as a whole is designed to stand at busy people's elbows ready to supply the information that must be had at a moment's notice...
...This would develop, to borrow a phrase from continental Catholic social scientists, a sociology imbued with the "solidarism" of organized groups that are comprised of strong individuals, to take the place of mere social psychology, and the sociologies of individualism, of regionalism, of primary groups alone, of pluralism, of vague social betterment, of abnormal types, of communism...
...Our principles of ethics and moral theology cannot be applied accurately without a thorough knowledge of the facts...
...The pattern of this tale of the life of Doris is that of the old Greek romances—a series of episodes strung together...
...so is the unabashed indulgence in ecstatic speeches and highly colored descriptions, all of which such a creative temperament would be expected to sanction and such a quick, responsive nature might be looked upon to employ...
...translated by Ruth Gheury de Bray...
...they are more realistic and they embrace more facts...
...they have more regard for the individual and the group as against the great society or the state...
...Now the first volume of the projected twelve invites consideration and at the same time affords a sample of what is to come...
...N E dream ended, it is time for another to begin...
...BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE...
...Many would attach much greater importance than he does to Parmenides and his notions, and certainly Burnet—^whom he quotes—would hardly uphold the extreme view which he takes of the ideas of Pythagoras on numbers...
...He has defined it and its actual scientific status, pending the absolutely final proving of the three major tests of its truth, without blurring its outlines with an impedimenta of terminology which would defeat the very purpose he had in mind...
...Pennington, to whom many of the letters in this collection are addressed...
...Yet even though the crassly materialistic days are gone, this volume suffices to prove over again, and at times abundantly, Newman's thesis in his Idea of a University...
...Johnson and Fanny Burney of Professor Tinker, which appeared some fifteen years ago...
...This design is borne out in the clear, readable print, the pertinent illustrations and the sturdy binding...
...Thrale died of apoplexy due to his persistent overeating...
...IT IS the heyday of sceptical literature and it would be odd indeed if woman kept her skirts, or what remains of them, dear of spatterings from the wheels of the agnostic Juggernaut...
...Fortune's Maggot, by Sylvia Townsend Warner...
...And now comes a collection of letters from Mrs...
...hence there is no ground for assuming that the wine of Cana and the Last Supper was not intoxicating...
...Fletcher is not able to use English ways...
...Invariably the critical canon concerning frankness—a quality strong in this story—has been applied to the subject-matter of extreme realism, its artistic values and the limits to which analysis and selection may be permitted to go in this direction...
...But after boasting of this she says that Zenobia Stevens, a neighbor of »hers, had a ninetynineyear lease from the Duke of Bolton, "lived it out" and went herself to restore it to the Duke who, like a "fine old English gentleman," gave her the use of the house "free for the rest of her life...
...And in a book presenting what in popularizations is always termed "the romance of" (for all it may be quite solid fact) astronomy, geology, the weather, the liquid molecule, cellular development et al., the avoidance of a technical vocabulary facilitates easy comprehension, while the author practises the limiting of science to its own proper business...
...Fortune's Maggot has, in fact, already realized on its up-to-date investment in the shape of enthusiastic press notices and choice by the Literary Guild as one of the books to be sent to the Guild's subscribers...
...they are less given to generalizations based on biology...
...This is in some ways the most interesting—more interesting than the dull Hawkins and even than Boswell, for apart from her connection with Johnson, Mrs...
...is taken by a robber band, who regard her as supernatural...
...The twelve volumes of Universal Knowledge will sell for $75.00 in one binding...
...THAT pestilence and civil wars are the chief factors in the ruin and decline of the Mayan civilization of Yucatan, and not merely the commercial wars of the Spanish explorers, or the intolerances of early profiteers and missionary societies, is the general summary of Gregory} Mason's Silver Cities of Yucatan...
...Butler, like all Catholics, was forbidden by the laws to plead in the courts of law as a barrister or even to fill the position of a solicitor...
...But withal they sorely miss knowing what Newman knew so well—and Saint Thomas before him, and Saint Paul before him—that, in actual fact, men's minds are so darkened in understanding and weakened in will that revelation is in practice needed to guide us to the truth about man's nature, aims and laws, and that the help of God is necessary for us to do what we know...
...Around this centre revolved nearly every person of literary importance at the time...
...Many have attempted the biblical scene of the first Christian years with sad results...
...The most satisfying articles in this symposium are those on sociology, economics, anthropology and cultural geography...
...another proof that once the protection of religion is cast off, lubricity of thought and word can invade the most delicate talent...
...Universal Knowledge, Volume I. New York: The Universal Knowledge Foundation, Inc...
...We can see what the museums and churches are like, now that Sovietism has turned them to propaganda— not without, let it be said, a great deal of care for archaeology and artistic interest, but still with the intention of impressing the popular mind with the tenets of anti-religion and antiaristocracy...
...Thrale, the third of the group of writers contemporary with the great lexicographer...
...Piozzi, gallant to the last, died in her eighties...
...3.50...
...Sophy smiled"—Sophy Streatfield, constantly mentioned in the Burney Diaries, a young lady who, without any provocation, could and did shed the largest and most pearly tears, a thing which endeared her to the heart of Thrale for some curious reason...
...More than five hundred pictures, chiefly photographs, illustrate the external aspect of Russia under the Soviets...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...One hopes it will be appreciated...
...New York: George H. Doran Company...
...Piozzi had none but a kind of maternal affection for the young man, an affection shared by her great friend Mrs...
...It is valuable in its contents and needs only the illuminating hand of a born writer to complete a magic picture of a land so rich in romantic materials...
...Clearly the production of such a work once more testifies to the scholarship of the Catholic body...
...New York: Columbia University Press, $3.00...
...To record, with an effect of spontaneity and honest enthusiasm, experience and idea, attitude and fancy, must be as firm and steady an ability on the part of the romantic as it is a duty on the part of the realist with his different motive and effect...
...Thrale was a really attractive character, which is perhaps more than can be said for the Scot...
...The newer men emphasize the importance of the mind...
...In his task he has had the cooperation of the Soviet authorities and if the result must be little to their liking, it cannot be said that the writer started out with White prejudices...
...But in the collection of facts and in the popularization of the conclusions they have reached on the basis of their facts and their bias, they have outstripped us...
...Piozzi was blamed by Johnson and his party because he was an alien, a fiddler, and a Catholic...
...Johnson was the centre of that society, and for fifteen years was almost settled at Streatham, Thrale's country house near London...
...THIS is one of the most remarkable books on Bolshevism I have read, for two reasons, one superficial, one more profound...
...Explorinff the Universej by Henshaw Ward...
...Surely they are part of the social sciences...
...Bacheller has contrived with an effective simplicity that avoids many technical difficulties...
...He was only a nominal Catholic, it would appear, for he abandoned his religion, if he had ever practised it, when he married, and steadily attended the services of the Established Church till his death...
...In Mr...
...The wonder of numbers and their combinations, the fact that they were unchanging in a world where all else was in flux save themselves and geometrical figures, these things started men thinking and formed the first lines of the many philosophical treatises which the world has since seen...
...Johnson was good-humored...
...One may say frankly that the slice augurs for a good, solid loaf...
...Such an idea is, of course, anathema to the secular theorists of the social sciences and the result of their denial is clear in their theories and clear in contemporary life...
...Henshaw abides in the present by the hope he expresses in the concluding section of his volume that in the "future of science, science will no longer invade religion or philosophy . . . will not assume to fly in the ether...
...As for Miss Warner's islanders, they are children from the golden age, a sort of compound of Melville and Rousseau, and the paganism of such people, had any such ever existed, is certainly preferable to the sort of religion brought them by Mr...
...A great proportion of the writers of signed articles has been recruited from the faculties of Catholic colleges—from among men whose ability and learning are far too frequently left unappreciated, even in their own environment...
...In format the new encyclopaedia will resemble the International rather than the Britannica...
...THIS symposium of experts—Elwood on sociology, Wissler on anthropology, Gault on psychology, John M. Clark on economics, Merriam on political science, Barnes on history, and Sauer on cultural geography—gives avaluable account of present social science, theory and trend in the secularist school of thought...
...But even such must come to an end some day and Mrs...
...2.50...
...Piozzi was an untiring correspondent, and in her eightieth year wrote a sheaf of so-called "love letters" to a young actor named Conway...
...The consequent warmth and emotional intimacy in his style overcome, by their very directness and enthusiasm, the compromise which the elements of his tale would ordinarily make with realism...
...Her style and manner (aside from one single sentence incorporated without the slightest artistic reason) is admirable, and admirably free from the obscenity which afflicts so many anti-religious novelists...
...Modern versions are ridiculous...
...Piozzi was an undaunted soul, for she tells us that in her eightieth year her prowess as a swimmer in the sea at Weston-super-Mare astonished the visitors, as indeed it well might...
...Herr Fiilop-Miller has made a thorough first-hand study of Soviet Russia from practically every point of view but the political...
...Every such study would embrace the principles, the facts, the ideal to be attained and a projected method of accomplishing the ideal, even when preliminary studies of the facts alone or the principles alone would be necessary...
...He wanted—and he got—a lady of learning, for she was certainly that, who could provide him with what he loved even as much as those pleasures of the table which in the end killed him—really good society...
...Thrale, in her bright way, touches of...
...New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons...
...In place of a hymn of hate or of acrid realism she gives us irony and poetic suggestionj innuendo and the halfpitying, half-superior smile...
...In so far as this is a generalization the picture may well be overdrawn, and Herr Fiilop-Miller, studiously avoiding the discussion of current politics in the Soviet Union, gives us no clue to the question of whether the experiment^ will succeed...
...And so on through the list of guests...
...In one of these lettersi Mrs...
...Sinclair Lewis has shown how the trick can be done with a bludgeon, and before him Mr...
...Raymond or someone else will shortly bring the story down to date...
...Miss Warner intimates that Mr...
...To bring out a work of such magnitude at such a price is a colossal achievement even from the rather bleak point of view of book-selling...
...Now for his new novel he has had recourse to the Gospel according to Saint John...
...This makes it a far more dangerous book than, for instance, Mr...
...Lewis's Elmer Gantry...
...Often trite in situation,, it still overcomes the rash unqualified sentimentality of so many less skilful stories by Catholic writers and gives promise of Mr...
...BRIEFER MENTION The Teachitiff of the Early Church on the Use of Wine and Strong Drink, by Irving Woodworth Raymond...
Vol. 6 • June 1927 • No. 6
