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For Lenten Reading* SAINTS FOR OUR TIMES By Theodore Maynard author of Too Sra,,ll a World: The Life o~ Francesca Cabrini Theodore Maynard writes of those saints, from the twelfth to the...

Books (March 1951)

Books The Grand Peregrination. Maurice Collis. Macmillan. $4.50. THE ORIGINAL title of the sixteenth - century Portuguese book by Fernao Mendes Pinto, which The Grand Peregrination renders and...

Books (November 1950)

Books The Disenchanted. Budd Schulberg. Random House. $3.50. IN PLACE of the usual statement that any resemblances are merely coincidental!, Budd Schulberg introduces his third novel with part of...

Books (October 1950)

Books Why War Came in Korea. Robert T. Oliver. Fordham University Press. $2.95. THE author of this latest contribution to the abundant polemical literature on Korea obviously considers himself a...

Between Heaven and Earth (January 1945)

January 12, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 327 Communications BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH The following telegram from Franz Werfel to Theodore Maynard and Mr. Maynard's reply relate to a review which...

CHESTERTON (October 1943)

634 THE COMMONWEAL October 15, 1943 Chesterton By THEODORE MAYNARD IT SHOULD be said at once that even the...

ORESTES BROWNSON, JOURNALIST (February 1943)

Orestes Brownson, Journalist A fighter for...

HOW NOT TO HELP AN AUTHOR (January 1943)

January 22, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 351 Producers Robert Z. Leonard and Orville O. Dull gave patriot who...

DR. JOHNSON AS A WRITER (October 1942)

34 THE COMMONWEAL October 30, 1942 yard and out the ridge path toward the pine. The "No use to feel that way, Skinny,"...

MR. BRUTÉ BECOMES A BISHOP (June 1942)

from DuBourg and Flaget. The very fact that he was not a particularly close friend might enable him to judge all the more dispassionately. Rlosati, as a neighboring bishop, should certainly be asked...

THE IMMEDIATE BEATITUDE (Verse) (June 1942)

The Immediate Beatitude For others their beatitude must wait— Mercy, the merciful; comfort, the mourner's brow: The poor the skies even now compassionate ; Theirs is the kingdom now. Not future...

FRAGMENTS (Verse) (November 1941)

November 7, I94I THE COMMONWEAL 69 this strange tendency, until nowadays we have arrived at the solemn gloom of funeral parlors, wakes, austre-faced undertakers, and cello solos over theatrically...

THE LIGHTER BELLOC (October 1941)

12 THE COMMONWEAL October 24, 1941 fairly new copy of his manuscript, did not admit such a multitude, and you will be delighted when you find that the modern editors have shown like restraint....

THE LOST LAND (September 1941)

The Lost Land* How American Catholicism was cast in an urban mold. By Theodore Maynard THE UNITED STATES was founded upon the agrarian system. Though forces were already at work pointing to a...

I BEARD THE BARD (September 1941)

I Beard the Bard An appraisal and reminiscence of Rabindranath Tagore. By Theodore Maynard IT WAS, I think, the worst moment of my life. Had I gone into a room and found myself face to face with...

THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES (Verse) (July 1941)

The Leaven of the Pharisees The leaven of the Pharisees Will work to the world's end: I am a whited sepulchreAnd so are you, my friend. The chief seats in the synagogue Still are cushioned...

INTO THE DARKNESS (August 1940)

Into the Darkness A Queen dies under portentous...

REASSURANCE (Verse) (March 1940)

"Tell the disciples and Peter" (Matt, xvi, 7) "Tell the disciples." Then he might have thought— He thrice-denying ere the first cock crew!— The message not for him. But it was brought, "Tell...

THE MOMENT (Verse) (March 1940)

Bring all the mind's intensity To bear upon a flower: Eternity, infinity Can blaze there for an hour. What are the ages that are past But endless wastes of sand? Hold, just so long as it can...

CHRISTMAS NIGHT (Verse) (December 1939)

The cattle giving the Homeless home, Sharing their bed of straw, And shaming still all humankind By their dumb awe; The oxen that kneel each Christmas night, Prompt at the stroke of the...

HOW SHALL I TELL MY TRUELOVE(Verse) (June 1939)

I76 THE COM universe until he has completed the entire course of the hundred great books at the end of his senior year. How much more effective it would be, availing oneself of the admirable...

VIA CRUCIS (Verse) (February 1939)

485 Via Cruets What riddles, Lord, what hard things darkly said! Too oft a stone, the heavenly bread, When with harsh paradoxes are the hungry fed! Here is a thing that cannot ever be: "Take up...

PROTEST (Verse) (November 1938)

65 Protest "Enough!" I cried, "enough, O God! Now my assaulted spirit fails: Too great my load, my way too dark and rough, My foes too mighty—and my courage quails!" Then He in irony: "Yet...

WANT OF WIT (verse) (November 1938)

40 Want of Wit The wise, since earth's dim morning, In concert all approve The sad, disheartening warning: Tell not your love. Let silence be commended, Or even telling lies— Never have I...

Providence (verse) (February 1938)

490 The Commonweal February 25, 1938 Agathon: Yes. I know besides that we won't have Paradise again on earth. I know that, in years to come as in the past, "perfectly happy families" and happy men...

Books (April 1937)

Books Two Indespensable Books Damien the Leper, by John Farrow. New York: Sheed and Ward. $2.50. Saint Francis de Sales, by Michael Mutter. New York: Sheed and Ward. $2.25. BY ONE of those...

Trees in Early November (verse) (November 1935)

November 8, 1935 The Commonweal 39 peak in the unity not of the flesh, but of the Spirit. gle and our hate. Come down...

The Illusions of Modernity (October 1935)

THE ILLUSIONS OF MODERNITY By THEODORE MAYNARD OF COURSE every age is inclined to believe that the artistic methods most characteristic of it are the best that have ever been known. All...

When the Pie Was Opened (August 1935)

WHEN THE PIE WAS OPENED By THEODORE MAYNARD FOR SOME time in England there has been what might be described as a slump in poetry. Not that poetry has had for a long while any very great...

The Lay Faculty Again (May 1935)

64 The Commonweal May 17, 1935 THE LAY FACULTY AGAIN By THEODORE MAYNARD THE SUBJECT discussed by Mr. Ward Stames and Professor Jeremiah K. Durick in The Commonweal of April 12 and...

Strange Luck (verse) (February 1935)

February 1, 1935 The Commonweal 389 A man is a master of a fl:ee subject, by directing him either toward his proper welfare, or to the common good. Such a kind of mastership would have existed...

Leave the Window Open (verse) (August 1934)

Leave the Window Open Leave the window open: Soon a bird will fly In from the leafy branches, And winds blow from the sky. Sit in the sunny orchard And watch the ripe fruit fall: You will not...

Questions (verse) (June 1934)

Questions Can the heart live Upon the wilted withered crust Which the proud fling, the pious give Kneeling in tears, having no more to give? For lack of better fare it must. But will God...

For a Sick Mind (VERSE) (April 1934)

656 THE COMMONWEAL April 13, ~934 For adventitious interest there are no Latin novels, and Latin newspapers are not particularly exciting. Latin elementary textbooks are making desperate...

A College Poetry Society (October 1933)

October a7, x933 THE COMMONWEAL 6I 5 more wealth, not to cut down what trees we have but to grow other trees. The wheels of industry must be started going. That is the motive back of the...

Consolation (verse) (October 1933)

October t3, I933 THE COMMONWEAL 559 waves of this ocean pond, until, looking doser, you may be fascinated and intoxicated to realize that each of the hundreds of white caps is a bobbing duck,...

The Strength of Weak Things (verse) (February 1933)

The Strength of Weak Things High in her filmy firmament The young moon, frail and innocent, Yet finds such strength as tugs the seas' Impossible immensities. The little acorn's tendrils...

Atmosphere in Poetry (January 1933)

322 THE COMMONWEAL January 18, 1933 ATMOSPHERE IN POETRY By THEODORE MAYNARD OF ALL literatures that of England is most thoroughly suffused with glamor. I am far from saying that other...

Woman and Child (verse) (January 1933)

Woman and Child There's no more lovely sight in all the earth Than this, the yearning image of the skies: The innocence that trusts itself from birth To a kind woman's eyes. The flushed young...

The Dead Bird (verse) (September 1932)

5 I o T H E C O M M O N W E A L September 28, I93Z always did right as he saw it, and insisted on everyone else doing it the same way; who washed the feet of the poor on Fridays; who brought the...

In Puget Sound (verse) (April 1932)

662 In Puget Sound All beauty gathers here: the land-locked seas, Jeweled with islands where the tall pines rise; Snows on the mountains; sunset on the skies— And yet I had no time to look at...

The Reluctant One (verse) (January 1932)

288 THE COMMONWEAL January 13, 1932 The Reluctant One (Matthew, xxi, 29-31) No painter ever drew, No poet ever sang this scowling one. Even the Pharisee has had his due, But not the...

Books (October 1931)

64o THE COMMONWEAL October 28, 1931 is responsible for certain evils in the world, he then proceeds to put that type of man into a play and to make of him a tar-black villain. Consul Bernick in...

Books (June 1931)

.190 THE COMMONWEAL June 17, 1931 series of plays, you have to have enough money to carry through the failures until you reach the success. That is why so few of the large theatrical producers lose...

On Driving a Car (May 1931)

May 13, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 43 ON DRIVING A CAR By THEODORE MAYNARD T HERE is a vast literature on the subject. All the larger Sunday supplements have sections devoted to the car, and there is...

The Plight of the Poet (January 1931)

TEN YEARS ago when, funds being low, I was obliged to cross the Atlantic as a steerage passenger, I had an experience that more than compensated for the discomforts of the voyage. It was this:...

Judas (verse) (July 1930)

Judas "Where are you going, Judas, With that rope in your hand?" "To scatter what God will not forgive To the dark wind and the sand." "Why is your purse empty, Judas, Dangling light and...

Books (February 1930)

BOOKS All Sides of Ibsen Ibsen, the Master Builder, by A. E. Zucker. New York: Henry Holt and Company. $3.50. IN MY quiet moments," said Peer Gynt, "I sound and probe and dissect my own inward...

To What Purpose Is This Waste? verse (September 1929)

525 ??? ???? ??????? ?? ???? ????? ??? What purpose? None, to all the shrewd and cold. ???? ?????? ??????? ????? ?????? ???? ???????? The squandering of that scented liquid...

The Horse's Skeleton (verse) (June 1929)

June 26, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 213 have drawn the obvious inference from the paragraph just quoted, that, so far as the law itself is concerned, both seller and buyer are free from moral guilt or...

Poems.. (February 1929)

February 20, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 4S9 POEMS ...

Poems (December 1928)

December i9, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 207 ...

Eileen Duggan, Poet. (October 1928)

EILEEN DUGGAN, POET By THEODORE MAYNARD THE Commonweal has been, I believe, the first and indeed the only American periodical in which Eileen Duggan's poems have appeared, though as a result of...

Poems (June 1928)

2l6 THE COMMONWEAL June 27, 1928 POEMS Withdrawal Let me drive hence All sullen care and turbulence: These muddy the spirit crystal-cool: Anger with fools but makes another fool. Quiet...

Late Spring (verse) (May 1928)

efate Spring The spring is late this year, But now that she is here The long delay Gives joy a keener edge. The dogwood and the hedge Know it is May. The impatient trees explode Into the...

Poems (April 1928)

(§ong of the Mumble Breeze of the April, Breath of delight, Ethereal sprite, Thy ways I follow! A humble pilgrim— By paths that hide. Where the moon shall guide And a star shall...

Poems (January 1928)

Introspection When the dark devil Under the world Bowls the red moon up Into the heavens And its thin shadows Chill the earth's slumber Thin, chilling shadows Move over my heart. Sadly,...

Books (December 1927)

Faith and Ferocity Roman Society in Gaul in the Merovingian Age, by Sir Samuel Dill. New York: The Macmillan Company. $7.50. THE late Sir Samuel Dill has left in this book a lively picture of...

Books, Mostly New (November 1927)

Young People's Reading No ONE who begins bookishly," says E. V. Lucas, "ever becomes quite free again." There seems little excuse nowadays for young readers not to lose their freedom early in...

Books (October 1927)

The Story of Fanny Burney, by Muriel Masefield. Cambridge University Press. $1.50. OF ALL the remarkable and interesting people who circled round Samuel Johnson, there is none who can be known...

Poems (August 1927)

flipper Ships Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, For somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soiil of a song is laid; A soul that sings with the ship along...

Books (August 1927)

George Eliot and Her Times, by Elizabeth S. Haldane. New York: D. Appleton and Company. $2.00. THE Vicomte Melchior de Vogiie, who first introduced the great writers of Russia to his...

What Is DIstributism? (July 1927)

IT IS a very awkward word,, at any rate, and not much of an improvement upon the "dlstributivism" of the days when I was writing for the old New Witness. But despite its unattractiveness as...

Books (June 1927)

Understanding America, by Lanffdon Mitchell. New York: Georffe H. Doran Company. $3.50. IN HIS Understanding America, Mr. Langdon Mitchell follows the middle of the road, a course that is usually...

Books (May 1927)

722 BOOKS Colonel Bob Ingersoll, by Cameron Rogers. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. $3.00. MR. ROGERS has followed up his fictional biography of Walt Whitman, The Magnificent Idler, with...

Books (February 1927)

BOOKS Holism and Evolution, by General, the Right Honorable, J. C. Smuts. New York: The Macmillan Company. ~3.5o. G ENERAL SMUTS tells us that it "has been my lot to have passed many years...

Books (February 1927)

386 THE COMMONWEAL February 9, I9~7 BOOKS Political and Industrial Democracy: x776-I9a6, by H/. Jett Lauck. New York: Funk and ICagnalls Company. $2.oo. ETT LAUCK does not write of...

Poems (February 1927)

February 2, I927 T H E C O M M O N W E A L 357 I POEMS To a Reader of Old Books Oh, seek Him not in dusty scrolls And mouldered histories. No charact'ry of theirs extols These Mysteries,...

Poems (January 1927)

January 26, I927 THE COMMONWEAL 325 POEMS ~ursum Gorda Perhaps they do grow old and die-- Swallow, and bee, and butterfly. Yet when next summer comes, lo there The same wild acrobats of...

Books (January 1927)

BOOKS This Believing H/orld, by Lezvis Brozone. New York: The Macmillan Company. ~3.5o. T HIS is a book in the Van Loon tradition, written in a turgid, would-he impressive style, and...

Books (January 1927)

Belasco production of What Never Dies was exerting its in- fluence. For according to its theme, the spirit of romance is a thing unfettered by encroaching years and grey hair--in fact, the author...

Books (January 1927)

246 BOOKS Episodes in the History of England, by Arthur J. Ireland. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $2.00. History of England, by George Macauley Trevelyan. New York: Longmans, Green...

Poems (December 1926)

December 99, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 215 POEMS arie Bash irtseff Gods A pulse fantastic, careless, absent-minded, A flurry of expense and then Mont Dore: The cup is full--linoleum on the floor....

Books (December 1926)

I36 THE COMMONWEAL December 8, 1926 BOOKS 8ocial Theories o[ the Middle .4#es: 12oo-15oo , by Bede Jarrett. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. $4.00. D OM JARRETT, in a modest introduction,...

Books (December 1926)

Terry manages to be the dominant figure as the acid, proud and possessive Mrs. Borkman. Many of the scenes recall Miss "Ferry's equally fine work in a well-remembered play of two seasons ago,...

Books (November 1926)

November 17, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 51 BOOKS England, by W. R. Inge. New York. Charles Scribners Sons $3.00. IN The World of William Clissold, Mr H. G. Wells makes a striking comparison...

Books-Fact, Fiction, and Philosophy (September 1926)

September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL ...

Books (August 1926)

THE COMMONWEAL August i 1,...

The Rural Rider Returns (May 1926)

May 12, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL II THE RURAL RIDER RETURNS By...

Books (May 1926)

BOOKS Personalities and Reminiscences of the War, by Robert Lee Bullard. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. $5.00. Fix Bayonets! by John W. Thomason, Jr. New York: Charles Scribners...

Poems (April 1926)

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Books (April 1926)

6io THE COMMONWEAL April 7, 1926 BOOKS Stephen Gardiner and the Tudor Reaction, by James Arthur Muller. New York: The Macmillan Company. $4,00. IT would be inconceivable, were not Dr. James...

Books (January 1926)

33O THE COMMONWEAL January 27, 1926 BOOKS The Pleasure Haunts of London during Four Centuries, by E. Beresford Chancellor. Illustrated. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. ...

Books (December 1925)

BOOKS Newman as a Man of Letters, by Joseph J. Reilly. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.SO. IT HAS been the destiny of John Henry, Cardinal Newman, like the Master whom he served all his...

The Newman of a New Age (December 1925)

THE NEWMAN OF A NEW AGE By THEODORE MAYNARD THE EVERLASTING MAN is a book so profound that many reviews upon it could be published together in these columns without exhausting the subject....

The Old Nun (verse) (September 1925)

474 THE COMMONWEAL September 23, 1925 sensibly serious. The story of his religious life, which developed out of the war and was molded by the delicate far-off fingers of Newman, need not be...

The Duel (verse) (January 1925)

284 THE COMMONWEAL January 21, 1925 where the brute creation wandered through an...

Puritan America (December 1924)

102 THE COMMONWEAL December 3, 1924 child Mary Monica inherited the estate on the death of her...

The Founder of California (November 1924)

II THE COMMONWEAL November it, 1924. THE FOUNDER OF...

Mayo, Morrow

Mayville, Luke

Mazewski, Matt

MAZOUR, ANATOLE G.

Mazurkiewicz, Piotr

MAZZARELLA, MARIO D.