Books of the Week A Preface to Newman's Theology. Edmond Darvil Benard. Herder. $2.25. OPINIONS about Cardinal Newman varied strikingly during his lifetime, and have varied since. If I...
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Communications
POLISH FRONTIER
Reno, Nev.
To the Editors: Though you feel that discussion of the complicated question of Poland's frontier "must be temporarily suspended," I am unable to refrain...
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More Books of the Week Arrival and Departure. Arthur Koestler. Macmillan. $2.00. THERE is not an empty word in this book, not a single hollow reflexion, not one "literary dialogue" splitting the...
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In Search of Ireland DAVID MARSHALL THE DAY Kevin Barry was hanged, some twenty-three years ago, all Dublin closed up shop, and twenty thousand people knelt and prayed outside the prison gates....
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The Birth of Irish Nationality By DAVID MARSHALL IT IS one of the astonishing things of history that Ireland was conquered, under Elizabeth, by an army of possibly five thousand effectives,...
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536 THE COMMONWEAL March 1g, 1943 be able to manufacture the same number of pairs manner of fascination which...
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able to do so as a result of the invention of the locomotive. And in the fifteen years from 1925 to 1940 the highway was re-emerging as a primary factor in transportation, as a result of the...
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curry favor with the new ruler." I hope not to look clannish (after all, our two branches have been divided since the fifteenth century) if I state that such was not the case with the...
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Parnell after Fifty Years
A political l enius, he won his real victory in the land war. By David Marshall F IFTY YEARS have gone by since the death of Parnell. He died on the sixth and was...
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580 THE COMMONWEAL October 10, 1928 BOOKS The Status of Crime The Repression of Crime, by Harry Elmer Barnes. New York: George H. Doran Company. $2.50. The New Criminology, by Max...
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WI TH much to stir and interest him in rapidly changing American scenes, Mr. William T. Cosgrave, President of the Council of the Irish Free State, confined his remarks pretty closely to...
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