SAINT-JOHN PERSE A Question of Man by JOSEPH H. McMAHON T HE AWARD of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Alexis Leger, the poet-diplomat who writes under the evocative pseudonym of Saint-John...
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BOOKS A New Look at the Pursuit of Truth ACADEMIC FREEDOM: An Essay in Definition. By Russell Kirk. Regnery. $3.75. By ERWIN W. GEISSMAN A CADEMIC freedom, like all problems which involve...
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BOOKS Robert Graves' Odyssey of a Greek Princess Robert HOMER'S DAUGHTER. By Graves. Doubleday. $3.95. By SEYMOUR KRIM M R. Graves is one of the true necromancers of modern English letters,...
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One Man's Journey Towards Universality and Truth THE GOLDEN STRING. By Bede Grifflths, O.S.B. Kenedy. $3.50. By ANNE FREMANTLE G REAT autobiographies are among the rarest, as they are among...
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Books Hitler's Heresy The Third Reich, by Henri Lichtenberger; translated and edited by Koppel S. Pinson. New York: The Greystone Press. $3.00. WHILE it is not difficult to perceive that to...
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THE BATTLE FOR DECENCY By JOSEPH H. McMAHON Despite all the comment on what the Legion of Decency stands for and is doing, one may doubt that the public has a clear understanding of the principles...
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306 THE COMMONWEAL July 'li, I933 action that did not proceed from Parliament. Catholic emancipation was won, and Plunket's political career closed. He had his high legal office, his great house...
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A Theological Mosaic A Newman Synthesis; arranged by Erich Przywara, S.J. New York: Longman's Green and Company. $J.00. 1DO NOT recall any book quite the same as this interesting compilation. It...
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IN THE passing of Dr. Barry at the advanced age of eighty-one, the English world of letters has lost an important figure, and the Catholic Church in England one that was unique. In realizing his...
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The Way of Youth The Space of Life Between, by the Reverend Bede Jarrett, O.P. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.00. THERE is a peculiar talent which shows in the selection of titles and the...
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Crashaw, Poet and Saint The Poems of Richard Crashaw, edited by L. C. MartinOxford: The Clarendon Press. THE disregard with which modern critics for the most part have treated the poems of...
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