CANADA DRY By ERNEST F. BODDINGTON WITHIN two days the electors of two widely separated provinces of Canada administered two very smashing blows to those reformers who, with a singular lack of...
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BOOKS Tom Brown's Headmaster Dr. Arnold of Rugby, by Arnold Whitridge; with an introduction by Sir Michael Sadler. New York: Henry t~o\lf and Company. ...
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184 THE COMMONWEAL June 20, 1928 PRECIOUS PORTRAITS By ERNEST F. BODDINGTON HpHIRTY-FOUR years have passed since that ¦*• day, when, emerging from the thick woods, a stepson of the...
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BOOKS Simple Lives and Complex Natures The Bronte Sisters, by Ernest Dimnet; translated from the French by Louise Morgan Sill. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. THAT was a moment...
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48 THE COMMONWEAL May 16, 1928 BOOKS The Monstrous Regiment of Popery! Al Smith, the Pope and the Presidency, by Theodore Schroeder. Published by the author at 18 East Tenth Street, New...
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WHEN, a little more than a month ago, the Right Reverend Michael F. Fallon, Bishop of London, Ontario, wrote an open letter to Mr. Mackenzie King, the Canadian Premier, demanding an explanation...
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America Comes of Age, by Andre Siegfried; translated by H. H. Hemming and Doris Hemming. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $j.OO. Where Freedom Falters, by the author of The Pomp of Power....
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"1X7"HEN Father Joseph Husslein, of the Society of " ' Jesus, undertook to write the scenario of a film which should trace the history and explain the doctrine of the Eucharist, he realized the...
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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...
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A History of Russia, Volume IV (1672-1762) by V. P. Kluchevsky; translated from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth. New York: E. P. Button and Company. $4.50. THIS book is much more than a narrative of...
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Bismarck: Geschichte eines K'dmpfers, by Emil Ludwig. Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt. MORE by coincidence and because the romantic method of history-writing is now the fashion than from any direct...
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611 BOOKS Moses in Red, by Lincoln Steffens. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company. $2.00. SOONER or later, every revolutionist comes around to it. He dallies for a time with the idea that...
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456 DEFIANCE OF ELPHEGE DAIGNAULT By ERNEST F. BODDINGTON AN EXTRAORDINARY situation discloses itself f\ in the diocese of Providence, Rhode Island. One Elphege Daignault, in conjunction with...
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376 T H E C O M M O N W E AL February 9, I927 NATIONAL DRAMA WEEK By ERNEST F. BODDINGTON T ALL depends upon where the accent is placed. This National Drama Week, from February I3...
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