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Some Outstanding Books of the Year OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS Jack Miles The Old Religion in the Brave New World:Reflectionson the Relation Between Christendom and...

SAMUEL BECKETT, BIBLE READER (April 1978)

NANCY PETERS If you are one of those who can take the world or leave it, most likely you will leave it. On any warm day you'll stay inside and look out the window occasionally to not miss the...

BOOKS (February 1974)

Alphabetically, the Dictionary ranges between Julius Weinberg's "Abstraction in the Formation of Concepts" and Nathan Rotenstreich's "Zeitgeist" as it presents articles of three different sorts:...

BOOKS (July 1973)

BOOKS O O O O O O 0 0 0 0 0 O O O 0 0 0 O O How to tell lies (and get away with it?) The P o l i t i c s o f Lying DAVID WISE Random House, $8.95 P o l i t i c a l Prisoners...

Books (May 1961)

BOOKS A Brilliant and Thorough Contemplation of Dramatic Art THE DEATH OF TRAGEDY. By George Steiner. Knopf. $5.00. By RICHARD GILMAN NEAR THE END of this long essay on the decline of tragic...

The Many Irelands (February 1961)

INFINITE VARIETY The Many Irelands by VIVIAN MERCIER N OW THAT John Fitzgerald Kennedy has been elected President, Americans will find it harder than ever to believe that there can be more than...

A Reader's Guide (October 1960)

PRIESTLEY ON LITERATURE A Reader's Guide by VIVIAN MERCIER T WOULD BE very easy to dismiss J.B. Priestley's I Literature and Western Man (Harper, $6.95), unread, with some time-saving phrase...

Arrival of the Anti-Novel (May 1959)

France's new movement Follows the path of rejection Arrival of the Anti-Novel by VIVIAN MERCIER F RANCE IS a country where literature constantly makes news. Right after World War I!...

Laforgue's Despairing Humor (May 1957)

EVOLUTION OF A POET Laforgue's Despairing Humor VIVIAN MERCIER IN A LETTER of December 6, 1881, to Charles Ephrussi, Jules Laforgue yearned from Berlin for his benefactor's art collection in...

The Riddle of Sean O'Casey (July 1956)

DECLINE OF A PLAYWRIGHT The Riddle of Sean O'Casey VIVIAN MERCIER p EOPLE OFTEN ask, "What happened to O'Casey?" meaning, "What caused him to start writing rubbish after those three plays...

Book Reviews (August 1955)

The Spiritual Resources of Democracy DECLARATION OF FREEDOM. By Elton Trueblood. Harper. $1.50. By WILL HERBERG ELTON Trueblood here addresses himself to what is perhaps the crucial...

Book Reviews (July 1955)

A Guidebook to Modern Literature THE MODERN WRITER AND HIS WORLD. By G. S. Fraser. Criterion. $3.95. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. T HE s u, bject of this long, crowded volume is, the...

Books (June 1955)

BOOKS An Examination of the World of Letters THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS. Essays on Various Writers. By Louis Kronenberger. Knopf. $3.75. By VIVIAN MERCIER O NE may classify writers...

Books (April 1955)

BOOKS An Attack on the New Orthodoxy of Literature THE EMPEROR'S CLOTHES. By Kathleen Nott. Indiana University Press. $4. By JOHN W. SIMONS M ISS Kathleen Nott, heretofore known chiefly as...

Books (March 1955)

BOOKS Yeats' Lifelong Immersion in the Spirit of Ireland THE LETTERS OF W. B. YEATS. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Allan Wade. Macmillan. $9.50. By VIVIAN MERCIER W 'HEN Yeats won...

Books (March 1955)

BOOKS The Modern Writer's Quarrel with His Culture THE OPPOSING SELF: Nine Essays in Criticism. By Lionel Trilling. Viking. $3.50. By VIVIAN MERCIER p ROFESSOR Trilling's latest volume...

The Fate of Oscar Wilde (February 1955)

BOOKS The Fate of Oscar Wilde VIVIAN MERCIER T HE centenary year of the birth of Oscar Wilde has come and gone without offering us a definitive biography of this playboy of the western world....

Book Reviews (February 1955)

The Allurement of Contemporary Irish Fiction THE RED PETTICOAT AND OTHER wild and lissom, love interest is STORIES. By Bryan MacMahon. Dot- added to conflict. And when, ton. $3. finally, you...

Book Reviews (January 1955)

The Inside Picture of Stendhal's Formative Years THE PRIVATE DIARIES OF STENDHAL. Edited and Translated by Robert Sage. Doubleday. $7.50 By MARTIN TURNELL I N 1799, when he was sixteen years...

Critics' Choice for Christmas (December 1954)

Critics' Choice for Christmas VIVIAN MERCIER A N unusually large number of books of lasting worth have appeared this year; I hope to read them all eventually. Those that have not yet come my...

Books (October 1954)

BOOKS Finding an Epicurean Basis for a Victorian Culture THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP: A study of E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, and their Circle. By J. K. Johnstone. Noonday....

Books (September 1954)

BOOKS The Search for Shakespeare's Missing Line THE ANNOTATOR. By Alan Keen and Roger Lubbock. Macmillan. :$4. By JOHN F. SULLIVAN BECAUSE it has been hailed by our most pontifical...

Books (August 1954)

BOOKS The Monastery As an Enduring Challenge THE MONK AND THE WORLD. By Walter Dirks. Davld McKay. $3,E0. By FRANCIS SWEENEY T HIS is a brilliant essay on monasticism vis-~t-vis the world,...

Books (August 1954)

BOOKS A Search for Universality That Led Too Far From Home A FABLE. By William FaulEnor. Random House. $4.75. By VIVlAN MERCIER W 'HAT is universality? How does a writer achieve it?...

Books (July 1954)

BOOKS Pleading the Absurdity of Human Existence GUIGNOL'S BAND. By Lou|s-Ferd;nend Cellne. Transleted by Bernard Frechtman and Jack T. Nile. New Directions. $B. By WALLACE FOWLIE G UIGNOL'S...

Books (July 1954)

BOOKS Spinning Literature Out of Old Lead AROUND THEATERS By Max Beerbohm. Simon and Schuster. $6. By WALTER F. KERR I T seems to me that all the rest of us who don't write as well as Max...

Literary Portraits and Essays (February 1953)

Lament for a Lost Culture A HOUSE IN BRYANSTON SQUARE. By Algernon Cecil. Harcourt, Brace. $5. By JOHN A. LUKACS THE passing of cultural traditions seldom goes unlamented; recently and amidst Mr....

Books (February 1951)

Books The New Soviet Empire. David J. Dallin. Yale. $3.75. RUSSIA," remarked one of her statesmen during the last century, "is a despotism tempered by assassination," and, he should have added, by...

Daniel Corkery (May 1950)

Lindfors) who works in his office. He realizes he is falling for this woman, and they part—on friendly terms. But Margaret, knowing that she is soon, to die and being on the lookout for her...

I Never Like England Before (November 1949)

November 18, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 177 Nehru and his imtense hold on the affection first was to see certain people I cared a...

PROGRESSIVE HIGHER EDUCATION (September 1948)

Progressive Higher Education VIVIAN MERCIER MARK TWAIN wrote what is to my mind the best book on "progressive education," though I doubt if he had ever heard the term used when he wrote it. The...

BOOKS (June 1948)

Books The Goebbels Diaries 1942-1943. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Louis P. Lochner. Double-day. $4.00. A COMPARISON of this volume with "Vom Kaiser-hof zur Reiohskanzlerei" the...

WE IRISH (January 1948)

402 We Irish We Irish, born into that ancient sect, But cast upon this filthy modern tide And in its formless, spawning fury wrecked. . . . npHESE WORDS from one of Yeats's last poems X might...

WHO KILLED THE DRAMA? (January 1948)

374 Who Killed the Drama? VIVIAN MERCIER WHILE READING "A History of Modern Drama," edited by Barrett H. Clark and George Freedley,* I kept wondering just where the modern drama went wrong....

SEUMAS MURPHY (October 1947)

October 24, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL know how to be real democratic parties--they always overdo it. Or perhaps in Italy the communists have fallen into the same mistake as fascism: They have as-...

THE ARTS IN IRELAND (June 1947)

June 6, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL 1$5 more than does most Irish painting. In sculpture of our Empire would spontaneously...

Merejkowsky, Dimitri

MERELLA, BARTHOLOMEW J.

Merridale, Catherine

Merrier, Vivian

Merrifield, Philip

Merrill, Clara

Merriman, Hiram

Merriman, Julia Bell

Merryman, Mildred Plew

Merton, John K.