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More Books of the Week We Can Win This War. William F. Kernan. Little, Brown. $1.50. WE ARE LUCKY to have a colonel on active service, a student of military history who could write...

COMMUNICATIONS (October 1941)

Communications THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM Pawtucket, R. I. TO the Editors: May I enter a small protest against the scathing and uncharitable letter of Mr. Sylvester in your issue of September 12,...

A MAN OF OUR DAY (April 1938)

A Man of Our Day By KATHERINE BURTON PECULIARLY a man of our own day, though he lived nearly a century ago, was Orestes Brownson. He talked as might a philosopher of today—a true philosopher, who...

Edna Millay (March 1937)

544 The Commonweal March 11, 1938, EDNA MILLAY By KATHERINE BURTON AS ONE plows through or leaps lightly over today's literary output, the reader becomes more and more certain of this fact : when...

On Women (February 1934)

463 ON WOMEN By KATHERINE BURTON IN LONG ago Anglo-Saxon days they called us hlaf digas, a word which means, according to most modern interpreters, a loaf-giver, one who gave hospitality....

To the Soviet Rulers {verse) (March 1933)

To the Soviet Rulers You plan vast futures, worlds where man shall be Always supreme, himself divinity. But, high above your schemes of peace and war, Above the selfish wound, the useless...

Our Lady of the Cenacle (June 1931)

186 THE COMMONWEAL June 17, 1931 overflow of the play of his character and mind, the mere way and by-product of his gesture and speech—where, in short, it is something subtly overadded and...

Books (May 1931)

5o THE COMMONWEAL May 13, 1931 The Lewisohn Dance Program S INCE the Neighborhood Playhouse, under Miss Irene Lewisohn, abandoned play production in favor of annual recitals of important music...

Books (December 1930)

Idylls and Monsters Orpheus: Myths of the World, by Padraic Colum. New York: The Macmillan Company. $5.00. THE FAVORITE stories, not of one person but of peoples, and races, that have come down...

Burton, Richard

Burton, Richard D. E.

Burton, Tara Isabella

Burton, William L.

Buruma, Ian

Busch, Trent

Bush

Bush, Douglas

Business, An Ugly

Business, War and American

Buskey, Megan

Bussard, Jobless Paul