August 24, 1945 THE 'COMMONWEAL 455 And yet it would be foolish to underestimate the importance of the Party's left-wing, which includes in addition to Laski such capable operators as Sir Stafford...
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December 22, 1944 THE COMMONWEAL 257 More Books of the Week An Essay on Man. Ernst Cassirer. Yale. $3.00. HERE is a work of evidently deep and authentic "scholarship," on the merits and...
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June 2, 1944 THE COMMONWEAL 153 William Penn and Isaac Penington M. WHITCOMB HESS WHEN Isaac Penington joined the Quakers about the middle of the seventeenth century something new was...
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September 6, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 407 and rotations-all the gold in Kentucky could not that spurred on Saint Jerome's...
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ON JULY 4, 1776, the thirteen United States of America unanimously refused to accept England any longer as their political mother. They gave as their reasons certain details of what was...
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Margaret Fuller: An Appreciation A hundred years ago her "conversation classes" started in Boston; today women have rights undreamed of then. By M. Whitcomb Hess 6 6"~k TESTERNIGHT there came...
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H. S. Chamberlain:Prophet of Nazism A self-exiled Englishman takes a few hints from a Jewish poet and lays a "scientific" basis for Aryan superiority. By M. Whitcomb Hess W HEN A WORK on race...
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The "Thoughts" of Joubert, 1838 By M. WHITCOMB HESS HIRTY-TWO years ago Chesterton wrote Tin his Introduction to Arnold's "Essays in Criticism" that if the English ever should grow wise to the...
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AGE AND POLITICS By M. WHITCOMB HESS WHEN Plato looked about him in despair at the political situation in his world 2,500 years ago he thought he saw what the basic trouble was: the men...
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What Words There Are to Say to You What words there are to say to you at leaving Are told by these things better than by me: The quiet noon, the living billows heaving, The sun on the clean...
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