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369 Books The Light of the Middle Ages The Story of Medicine in the Middle Ages, by David Riesman. New York: Paul B. Hoeber. $5.00. DR. RIESMAN'S book is a striking example of the...
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January 31 , 1936 Commonweal 387 ooks Newer Spiritual Books 6$f-~OD'S SOLDIER" (Macmillan. Volumes I and ~J II, $7.50), by St. John Ervine, glorifies the picturesque Salvation Army lads and...
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Books Life's Simplicity Time out of Mind, by Rachel Field. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. HERE are 462 pages packed with sensuous beauty, pungent and sometimes profound folk...
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March z2, I935 T/ e Commonwed 6oi Religious Publications M ONSIGNOR FULTON J. SHEEN in a characteristic foreword calls this book "The Making of the Pulpit Orator," by Reverend John A....
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October 15, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 611 AMONG THE FALL BOOKS Papal Infallibility The Vatican Council: The Story Told from Inside in Bishop Vllathorne's Letters, by Dom Cuthbert Butler,...
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BOOKS The Marseillaise France, A Nation of Patriots, by Carlton J. H. Hayes. New York: Columbia University Press. $4.50. THIS volume deals with "the means by which Frenchmen of the present day...
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BOOKS Papini's Saint Augustine Saint Augustine, by Giovanni Papini; translated by Mary Pritchard Agnetti. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. THIS year the fifteen hundredth...
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508 THE COMMONWEAL March 6, x929 Chartes. It is curious to see the Sorbonne once more interesting itself in the thought of the middle-ages, as in the days of Saint Thomas. Yet the lectures of M....
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MYSTICISM: A POPULAR EXPOSITION By JOHN K. SHARP NOT so long ago, "mysticism" was a term of vague reproach or ridicule. Today the word flows from the facile pen of the pamphleteer and has won its...
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