Books The Man of Sorrows Life of Jesus, by Francois Mauriac; translated by Julie Kernan; illustrated by George Buday. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $2.50. 1 WRITE this review as a letter...
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489 Hooks A Resume The Cambridge Medieval History. New York: The Macmillan Company. Nine volumes. $90.00. PLANNED many years ago and since brought to completion under a group of devoted...
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February 21, 1936 The Commonweal 471 ...
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I4o T/ e Commonweal November 30, I934 SOME NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS By KARL F. HERZFELD I HAVE been asked by the editors to describe the work of some of the theoretical physicists who have received...
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410 THE COMMONWEAL August 2S, 1933 When Camilla Peretti, sister of Pope Sixtus V, over three centuries ago...
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432 THE COMMONWEAL February 15, 1933 SCIENCE AND RELIGION1 By KARL F. HERZFELD IN THIS paper I shall discuss the relation which the activities of the Catholic scientist, i.e., of a...
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October 21, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL BOOKS Dwindling Populations The Case against Birth Control, by Edward Roberts Moore; introduction by Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York. New York:...
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306 THE COMMONWEAL July 22, 1931 BOOKS Labor Leadership The Labor Philosophy of Samuel Gompers, by Louis S. Reed. New York: Columbia University Press. $3.00. GOMPERS "was a practical man, a...
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May 27, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL Io5 BOOKS Augustinian Essays A Monument to Saint Augustine, by M. C. D'Arcy, S.J., Maurice Blondel, Christopher Dawson, Etienne Gilson, Jacques Maritain, C. C....
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IN THIS paper I cannot dare to try to explain the theory of relativity, especially its later development. Einstein himself said, when asked for it by newspaper men in New York, that he might...
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THE GENERAL impression which one gets sometimes in reading newspapers or magazines not strictly scientific, is that Einstein's fame rests entirely on his new theory of relativity, of which it is...
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82 THE COMMONWEAL May 21, 1930 BOOKS Science and Faith The Sceptical Biologist, by Joseph Needham. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $3.00. THIS very stimulating book contains ten...
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BOOKS Inventory of Science The Universe around Us, by James Jeans. New York: The Macmillan Company. $4.50. SIR JAMES JEANS, the author of this book which tells in a popular way the recent...
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