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An Artist's Enemies Whistler, by James haver. New York: The Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. $5.00. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON—a friend of Whistler, by the way—said somewhere in one of his short...

One War-time Christmas (December 1930)

WHOEVER was responsible for beginning the town was also, very probably, responsible for its name. Jussey he called it, but after a thousand years and more the strident youths who were billeted...

Reading the Bible in School (November 1929)

READING THE BIBLE IN SCHOOL By MARK O. SHRIVER SOONER or later the Supreme Court of the United States will be called on to determine whether the reading of the Bible in classrooms "without...

The Maryland Tercentenary (March 1929)

540 THE COMMONWEAL March 13, 1929 THE MARYLAND TERCENTENARY By MARK O. SHRIVER I T IS yet five years to the spring of 1934 and the tercentenary of the landing in St. Clement's Bay of Leonard...

Reducing States to Territories (October 1928)

October 24, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 629 REDUCING STATES TO TERRITORIES By MARK O. SHRIVER TWO novel and startling propositions in constitutional law have recently been brought forward by...

Gerrymandering the Cities (August 1928)

August 8, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 345 GERRYMANDERING THE CITIES By MARK O. SHRIVER IT IS quite possible, and, if a third party movement should assume sizeable proportions, probable, that the...

The Cemetery at Romagne (May 1928)

May 30, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 97 THE CEMETERY AT ROMAGNE By MARK O. SHRIVER EVERY summer for nearly ten years eager shiploads of American tourists by the hundreds of thousands have crossed...

That Christmas May Be Christian (December 1927)

EVERY year, just about the time of the winter solstice, a queer sort of oppression overwhelms me. There is a strange feehng that things are not exactly as they should be. Christmas is...

The Legion Goes Home (November 1927)

THE second American Expeditionary Force, like the first, has passed into history, and, like the first, it marked an epoch in the existence of two nations. The Paris dailies spoke of the gathering...

The Second A. E. F (September 1927)

'T^HIS September the convention of the American -*• Legion, celebrating the tenth anniversary of our entry into the world war, will be held in the city of Paris, and France will welcome once more...

The Prevalence of Perjury (April 1927)

602 THE PREVALENCE OF PERJURY By MARK O. SHRIVER IN ITS issue of February 2, The Commonweal printed a brief editorial note on the wide-spread prevalence of perjury in the country today....

Maryland Tercentenary (March 1927)

580 THE COMMONWEAL March 30, I927 MARYLAND TERCENTENARY By MARK O. SHRIVER T HE twenty-fifth day of March, I934, seems rather far in the future in 1927, but seven years pass quickly and a...

Our Changing Constitution (March 1927)

487 OUR CHANGING CONSTITUTION By MARK O. SHRIVER THE trend toward federalization and democratization of the republic which began with the reconstruction period at the close of the war...

Who Rules These United States? (November 1926)

630 THE COMMONWEAL November 3, 1926 WHO RULES THESE UNITED STATES ? ...

In the Market Place (April 1926)

April zS, I9Z6 T H E CO M M ONWEAL. 685 Ill II I i I short stretch of comparatively shallow water suitable for mine-laying between Sicily and North Africa, it is a valuable naval...

Catholic Lay Organization (November 1925)

642 THE COMMONWEAL November 4, I925 CATHOLIC LAY ORGANIZATION By MARK O. SHRIVER T HERE have always been some to seek for and plan the co6rdination of Catholic lay activity and the...

Shriver, Timothy

Shriver, Timothy P.

Shuman, Howard

Shumway, M

Shuster, George

Shuster, George N

Shuster, George N.

Shuster, Henry Longan Stuart, George N.

Shuter, Bill

Shy, Reviewed by Todd

Siadhail, Micheal Oâ€™

Sibley, Angus