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327 Song: The First Frost (For Muted Strings.) Take your sleep, take your rest, Love that I have lost. Now upon the flower of love Falls the first frost. There was joy, there was ...

For One Who Said "Alleluia!" (verse) (April 1933)

for One Who Said "Alleluia!" Frost still in the ground, stained snow banked hard by the garden path— Winter has not yet spent all of its wrath. But winter is over and gone for me. The grey Of...

Books (January 1932)

330 THE COMMONWEAL January 20, 1932 BOOKS Poland's Heroine Jadwiga, Poland's Great Queen, by Charlotte Kellogg. New York: The Macmlllan Company. $2.50. NO ONE who comes to know the story...

Many Rivers (October 1931)

October 14, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 579 MANY RIVERS By CHARLES PHILLIPS FOUR of us went for a walk one Saturday afternoon, over the fields toward the river, down the bluffs and along the bank until...

Books (July 1931)

326 THE COMMONWEAL July 29, 1931 it is the only institution in the United States making a broad-gaged, comprehensive, Catholic attempt at rural educational development among Negroes. It is...

Books (May 1931)

78 THE COMMONWEAL May 20, 1931 phrase, "living one's own life." Alison's story is the triumphant answer to the glorification of weakness and treachery expressed in Philip Barry's "Tomorrow and...

Places and Persons (May 1931)

May 13, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 37 Places and Persons PADEREWS KI By CHARLES PHILLIPS O NE EVENING in the midsummer of 1920, I stood in a wooded path on the rocky slope of a mountain in Poland and...

The Soviet Easter (April 1931)

IT IS not by religious tradition alone, but by the very working of nature, that Eastertide in such a northern clime as Russia is a particularly happy season. Nature herself makes it so. Earth,...

You and the Sea (verse) (September 1930)

Tou and the Sea All day the sea in my heart— All day the sound of the sea, surrounding and holding me, All day the breast-high tide against my beating side; And the tide flows and the day...

Books (May 1930)

BOOKS Emily Dickinson Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson; edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $5.00. Emily Dickinson, by Joseph Pollitt. New York: Harper...

Books (April 1930)

BOOKS Another Ludwig Trifle Lincoln, by Emil Ludwig; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $5.00. IT WOULD take an adding machine to count the...

Among the Spring Books (April 1929)

April 17, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 687 AMONG THE SPRING BOOKS ...

Books (November 1928)

76 THE COMMONWEAL November 21, 192S to marry his curious son, and plans to murder slowly, after...

Ladislas Reyrnont (February 1927)

February I6, I9Z 7 THE COMMONWEAL 407 LADISLAS REYMONT By CHARLES PHILLIPS S OPHISTICATION is the curse of modern litera- ture; and the curse of sophistication is sterility. A Van Vechten...

A Poet of Soul and Sex (February 1927)

novel cannot demonstrate a thesis. One mere glance at the history of letters reveals the fact that fiction "with a purpose" is all more permanently deceased than the works of Scaliger. Neither...

Poland and Pilsudski (June 1926)

92 THE COMMONWEAL June 2, 1926 POLAND AND...

Mexico: The Law of the Land (March 1926)

March 10, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 485 MEXICO: THE LAW OF THE LAND By CHARLES PHILLIPS WHEN we Americans read in our morning papers, day after day, news of persistent and continually ...

Poland Stabilized (December 1924)

94 THE COMMONWEAL December ~, 1924 Lloyd George, Birkenhead, Baldwin, the leaden of the two...

PHILLIPS, CHARLES WM.

Phillips, John

Phillips, Kevin

Phillips, Mark

Phillips, Maxine

Phillips, Randall R.

Phillips, Robert

Phillips, Sgt. Charles W.

Phillips, Vanna

Phillips, William