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BOOKS St. Patrick's Country And So Began the Irish Nation, by Seamus MacCall. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $5-00. SPECIAL circumstances, too well known to need recounting, breed in...

When Shall We Tire of Names? (verse) (December 1931)

185 When Shall We Tire of Names ? We are so drunk with names, we naming ones, Reeling from stone to star, inebriate With flushed presumption—labeling men and suns And all things else that names...

Books (December 1931)

BOOKS Religious Experience The Growth of the Idea of God, by Shatter Mathews. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.jo. IN THIS volume the author seeks to establish a basis for his theory of the...

Books (November 1931)

22 THE COMMONWEAL November 4, 1931 BOOKS Days of Long Ago Everyman Remembers, by Ernest Rhys. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. $4.00. Companions on the Trail, by Hamlin...

Silesia Prays (October 1931)

October 14, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 575 SILESIA PRAYS By HENRY MORTON ROBINSON FAITH—clear, deep and unquestioning—is not eminently a modern virtue. In that constant substitution of new cells for old...

Books (November 1930)

China's Tragedy The Inner History of the Chinese Revolution, by T'ang Leang-Li. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated. $5.00. China's Revolution from the Inside, by R. Y. Lo....

Books (November 1930)

The End of a Golden Age The EdwardianSj by V. Sackville-West. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Incorporated. $2.50. MISS SACKVILLE-WEST'S title announces her ambition to characterize an...

Cheirograph (verse) (June 1930)

Qheirograph Caesar's hand was delicate, Raleigh's hands were white, Cromwell had a heavy hand, And Fagin's hands were light; Pilate—he had clean hands, Judas's were cursed, The soldiers'...

Cockcrow: Woodstock (verse) (January 1930)

Qockcrow: Woodstock The cock that crew when Peter lied Crows now, and in his throat Lugubrious and empty pride Strains with a warning note. More melancholy than the owl, This chanticleer of death-...

Among the Fall Books (November 1929)

AMONG THE FALL BOOKS Superman, Poet, Novelist The Life of George Meredith, by Robert Esmonde Sencourt. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $3.50. GEORGE MEREDITH was a superman. He had enough...

Books (October 1929)

62o T H E C O M M O N W E A L October 16, 1929 APPRECIATE the Jull significance o/the teast* ot CHRIST THE KING :=--=--=--==--=:'----~ Read =-'--==-'-'----~ REIGN of CHRIST...

Poor Man, Beggar Man (September 1929)

442 T H E C O M M O N W E A L September 4, I929 POOR MAN, BEGGAR MAN By HENRY MORTON ROBINSON N JUNE, I926, I arose from my instructor's desk in a large eastern university and...

Books (May 1929)

we sat through m~nutes o~[ toffure~vla]Ie a ~'xIcKmg xua~-m,,. ~projected jumpy and flickering images on the screen concerning the most infantile pranks and slapstick comedy. If, instead of thinking...

Books (December 1928)

I7o THE COMMONWEAL December I2, I928 Conyai T HERE is one scene of magnificent "theatre" in the second act of this play by Harry Hervey and Carleton Hildreth; there are also many scenes of...

Books (October 1928)

668 THE COMMONWEAL October 31, 1928 BOOKS Crusading against the Pagans Catholicism and the Modern Mind, by Michael Williams. New York: The Dial Press. $3.50. f I VHERE is a stimulating...

Books (October 1928)

October 17, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 607 BOOKS India at First Hand John Marshall in India, by Shafaat Ahmad Khan. New York: The Oxford University Press. $7.00. THIS volume contains two of...

Books (June 1928)

BOOKS The American Balkans Nicaragua and the United States, 1909-1927, by Isaac Joslin Cox. World Peace Foundation Pamphlets. A CLEVER young pamphleteer once described the Caribbean...

Books (June 1928)

BOOKS An American Record John Stevens: An American Record, by Archibald Douglas Turnbull. New York: The Century Company. $5.00. ONE by one true heroes in American history emerge from shadows...

Books (February 1928)

The Glass and the Mold Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century, Volume IV; translated from the German of Dr. Oskar Fischel and Max von Bohn. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $5.00. THE...

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Preface (December 1927)

IF, BY some dark mischance, Rupert Brooke's poems were to remain in manuscript till 1944, and were then published (without a fragment of biography) in what purported to be a complete...

The Virgin at Noon (verse) (November 1927)

High noon. The church is open. I enter in and say, Blessed Mother of Jesus, I have not come to pray. Nothing have I to offer; I plead no gift, no grace, I only come, great Mother, to gaze upon...

Books (November 1927)

America Comes of Age, by Andre Siegfried; translated by H. H. Hemming and Doris Hemming. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $j.OO. Where Freedom Falters, by the author of The Pomp of Power....

Sonnets (September 1927)

Exile Where mountains have a shrunken skin that seams And cracks, and where plateaus are saffron jowls Covered with greying stubble, and where streams Are tears gone dry, where no coyote...

Clinkers from a Poetry Sieve (September 1927)

WHEN Digger MacBrace decided to dress up his 1928 list with a few volumes of handtooled verse, I broke out the poetry sieve and stood by for an arduous sifting detail. Digger had never published...

Books (September 1927)

History of the Catholic Mission in the Hawaiian Islands, by Reverend Reginald Yzendoorn. Honolulu: Honolulu StarBulletin, Limited. $4.90. THE centenary of Catholic missionary work in the...

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 (June 1927)

A History of Russia, Volume IV (1672-1762) by V. P. Kluchevsky; translated from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth. New York: E. P. Button and Company. $4.50. THIS book is much more than a narrative of...

The Lay Reader (May 1927)

AS AN ex-officio observer of affairs spiritual in a great metropolitan university, I am convinced ^ that growing companies of lay students are seeking in the intellectual tradition of the Church...

Mystic and Man of Affairs (March 1927)

514 MYSTIC AND MAN OF AFFAIRS By HENRY MORTON ROBINSON POET and diplomat, dramatist and metaphysician, mystic and man of affairs—these are the apparently conflicting terms of the equation that is...

Poems (February 1927)

February 9, z9z7 THE COMMONWEAL 383 POEMS Calle de Lamparillas (Havana. Guba) It is a little street, and very humbly It winds through the quarter on the harbor-front; All day...

Candles (verse) (February 1927)

g46 THE COMMONWEAL February2, I927 the fallacy so deeply rooted in the modern world out- side the Catholic Church that there exists a natural antagonism between the Catholic system of thought and...

ROBINSON, JOHN

Robinson, Landon

Robinson, Landon M.

Robinson, Linda

Robinson, Marilynne

Robinson, Morton

ROBINSON-HOLMES, JOAN

Rocco, Joseph

Rocha, Flávio

Roche, Barbara

Roche, Douglas

Roche, Douglas J.