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BOOKS The Moorland Sisters The Life and Private History of Emily Jane Bronte, by Rotner Wilson. New York: Albert and Charles Boni. $4.00. np HOUGH the publication of the Heger letters a few...

Books (July 1928)

BOOKS Tom Brown's Headmaster Dr. Arnold of Rugby, by Arnold Whitridge; with an introduction by Sir Michael Sadler. New York: Henry t~o\lf and Company. ...

"Brinvillier's Countess" (verse) (June 1928)

"^Brinvillier s Countess. . ." Brinvillier's countess, when the hour arrived That bound her to the stake where she must pay, With twenty deaths in one slow death contrived, Full forfeit of her...

Books (June 1928)

162 THE COMMONWEAL June 13, 1928 BOOKS Slum Clearing in the Antilles Black Democracy: The Story of Haiti, by H. P. Davis. New York: The Dial Press. $5.00. THE history of Haiti, since...

Avella, Pennsylvania (May 1928)

THE COMMONWEAL May 9, 1928 AVELLA, PENNSYLVANIA By HENRY LONGAN STUART THOSE who know the outward aspects of coalmining country only from experience in the northern counties of England or...

Fragment (verse) (April 1928)

Blessed Marye Moder of God By the crosses foot hath stod All daylong: at sette of sun Cometh her new childe Seynt Jon: "Moder Marye, get us home Herefrom ere the prestes...

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...

Poems (February 1928)

(§ortilege Something of her is all but told By the voice of the rain. April spends silver, June spends gold, That she may laugh again. She, who is sister to the sun. And elf-kin to the...

Books (January 1928)

The Federal Charter The Living Constitution, by Howard Lee McBain. New York: The Workers' Education Bureau Press. $1.50. THIS little volume forms one of a series known as The Workers' Bookshelf,...

Poems (December 1927)

'The Reapers "Good-night, and a good sword!" Be your watchword, for the Lord, Who had vainly called the many now hath chosen you the few, At the altars where you kneeled. And your thews and...

Books (December 1927)

Liaison in Letters A History of English Literature, by Emile Legouis and Louis Cazamian: Modern Times (i66o-igi4) by Louis Cazamian; translated by W. D. Mclness and the author. New York: The...

Books (November 1927)

The Passionate Prophet Henry Thoreau: The Cosmic Yankee, by J. Brooks Atkinson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50. HENRY THOREAU might be considered a pioneer of that American frontier, the open...

Books, Mostly New (November 1927)

Young People's Reading No ONE who begins bookishly," says E. V. Lucas, "ever becomes quite free again." There seems little excuse nowadays for young readers not to lose their freedom early in...

Books (November 1927)

New England Colonial Life, by Robert Means Lawrence. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Cosmos Press. $2.00. PURITANS, not to say Pilgrims, have no complaint to make against history. To those of us...

This Is the Street (verse) (October 1927)

This is the street called "Malcontenti" still. Florence her gallows had, be sure, as we: And hither, toward their squalid Calvary Men counted it a station. Down the hill You watch them...

Joy in Painting: Maurice Denis (October 1927)

ONE of the compensations of living and working in New York is that those of us who reside in the world's biggest and most resonant city have our habitation literally at the gate of the new...

Books (September 1927)

A Group of Western Scholars, by R. J. C. Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland. IN SPITE of their modest appearance and low price, the historical pamphlets issued from time to time by the...

Books (September 1927)

Professional Patriots: An Exposure of the Personalities, Methods and Objectives Involved in the Organized Effort to Exploit Patriotic Impulses in These United States During and After the Late...

A Trappist in the Trenches (August 1927)

«»"TX TAR," says Raymond Recouly, the well-known Wl French military writer, in his preface to ^ " La Bataille de Foch, "is a terrifying and absorbing drama, because it is, first and last, a...

For a Mother (verse) (August 1927)

God's own voice, at noon of night, Whispered her, and lo, 'twas light! While our weeping eyes, a space. Watched heaven's sun rise on her face. Now about the courts she stands Of the house not...

Books (June 1927)

J Methodist Saint: The Life of Bishop Asbury, by Herbert Asbury. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $5.00. BISHOP FRANCIS ASBURY is not only the maker of American Methodism. He was one of the builders...

The Bride (Verse) (May 1927)

On the cheek that shamed the rose Now the droopen lily blows, Riven from its stem to spice The stirless airs of Paradise. Not more pale the chaplet set For a consort's coronet, Where the blue...

Books (May 1927)

722 BOOKS Colonel Bob Ingersoll, by Cameron Rogers. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. $3.00. MR. ROGERS has followed up his fictional biography of Walt Whitman, The Magnificent Idler, with...

Books (April 1927)

639 BOOKS Mother Philippine Duchesne, by Marjory Erskine. New York: Longman's Green and Company. $4.00. Mary Aloysia Hardey: Religious of the Sacred Heart, 1S091886, by Mary Garvey. New...

Books (March 1927)

526 BOOKS The World's Debt to the Irish, by James J. Walsh. Boston: The Stratford Company. $2.50. THERE is always something a little ungrateful in self-congratulation at the benefits we derive...

Serajevo-and Shanghai (March 1927)

484 SERAJEVO—AND SHANGHAI By HENRY LONGAN STUART FOR a period that dates back to the first meeting of the League of Nations in the year following the Treaty of Versailles, the world at large...

Books (December 1926)

BOOKS Can [/Fe Then Believ:e.e, by Charles Gore. Ne~u York: Charles 8cribner's Sons. Sz.oo. T HE present volume by the former bishop of Oxford Is a summary of his three well-known...

Books (December 1926)

I36 THE COMMONWEAL December 8, 1926 BOOKS 8ocial Theories o[ the Middle .4#es: 12oo-15oo , by Bede Jarrett. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. $4.00. D OM JARRETT, in a modest introduction,...

On Reading Some Lines in Horace (verse) (December 1926)

December 8, I926 THE COMMONWEAL I23 Dozens of other similar statements could be cited from Catholic theologians, but the one given, which is official, is suffident. A recent work, entitled...

Books (November 1926)

80 THE COMMONWEAL November 24, 1926 BOOKS The Reformation in Dublin, by Myles V. Ronan. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $7.50. FATHER RONAN'S monograph upon the sorry beginnings...

Books (November 1926)

November 17, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 51 BOOKS England, by W. R. Inge. New York. Charles Scribners Sons $3.00. IN The World of William Clissold, Mr H. G. Wells makes a striking comparison...

Decidua (verse) (November 1926)

November 17, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 41 T)ecidua Withered gold that the seasons squander: Outcasts wan that the sun lets die! Evening strips you and herds together, Morn shall scatter, and who...

Books-For the More or Less Youthful (November 1926)

18 THE COMMONWEAL November 10, 1926 BOOKS-FOR THE MORE OR LESS YOUTHFUL JUVENILE BOOKS OF 1926 FROM out of the children's preferences let the selection be made of the best juvenile...

Books-Fact, Fiction, and Philosophy (September 1926)

September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL ...

Books (August 1926)

388 THE COMMONWEAL August 25,...

Books (August 1926)

August 18, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL ...

Abbess of the Snows (June 1926)

June 23, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 177 ABBESS OF THE...

Intempestiva (verse) (June 1926)

June 9, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 123 sure of the sympathy of all passers-by and immune tudes to both sides,...

Books (June 1926)

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Books (May 1926)

BOOKS Personalities and Reminiscences of the War, by Robert Lee Bullard. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. $5.00. Fix Bayonets! by John W. Thomason, Jr. New York: Charles Scribners...

To a Dead Actor ( v e r s e ) (April 1926)

April 28, I926 T H E C O M M ONWEAL 69x m, .. ., , ,. ,,. , sorely in the/r mind~ They did not care greatly what hap- pened to their Irish brethren--whose fate was bound up with theirs...

The Play (April 1926)

April 14, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 637 THE PLAY By HENRY LONGAN STUART Bride of the Lamb AS the theatrical season wanes and nothing of first value has appeared, New York critics have a way...

Books (April 1926)

6io THE COMMONWEAL April 7, 1926 BOOKS Stephen Gardiner and the Tudor Reaction, by James Arthur Muller. New York: The Macmillan Company. $4,00. IT would be inconceivable, were not Dr. James...

The Play (March 1926)

March 31, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 581 THE PLAY Easter A SAD thing happened last week. The Stagers—a persistent and loyal producing group—presented New York with an honest and moving...

The Play (March 1926)

554 THE COMMONWEAL March 24, 1926 THE PLAY By HENRY LONGAN STUART (Mr. R. Dana Skinner will resume the conduct of this department next week.—The Editors.) The Trouper * I * HERE...

Books (March 1926)

BOOKS A PREFACE TO LADY LOVATS BOOK* A LTHOUGH someone once said that to launch a book -**-without a preface was like going out for a walk without a hat, an anthology which presents a gleaning...

Books (March 1926)

BOOKS The Quebec Act: A Study in Statesmanship, by R. Coupland. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. $3.50. TO the student of comparative history it will always be a source of wonder that the British...

The Middle-Class (February 1926)

43O THE COMMONWEAL February 24, 1926 THE MIDDLE-CLASS A PLEA FOR SELF-CONCEIT By HENRY LONGAN STUART THIRTY or even twenty years ago, the thought that America would find itself with a class...

Books (February 1926)

386 THE COMMONWEAL February 10, 1926 BOOKS The Diplomatic Relations of Great Britain and the United Statesj by R. B. Mowat. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $5.$0. IN reviewing this...

Books (February 1926)

February 3, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 359 BOOKS A SHEAF OF NEW POEMS From Bersabee to Darij by Michael Earls. Worcester, Mass.: Holy Cross Press. $1.75. Puritan, by Isabel Fiske Conant. New...

Books (January 1926)

33O THE COMMONWEAL January 27, 1926 BOOKS The Pleasure Haunts of London during Four Centuries, by E. Beresford Chancellor. Illustrated. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. ...

Books (January 1926)

BOOKS Development of Our Knowledge of Tuberculosis, by Lawrence F. Flick. Philadelphia: $7.50. WHILE in our generation consumption has ceased to be, in Defoe's picturesque phrase, "the...

Madison Square (verse) (January 1926)

For a Young Girl Softly and silently Darkness came creeping; Darkness stole over her When she was sleeping. Music fell from her, Laughter was gone; Darkness had made her Quiet and...

A Witness to the Faith (December 1925)

208 THE COMMONWEAL December 30, 1925 A WITNESS TO THE FAITH By HENRY LONGAN STUART ON Saturday, December 4, as the train from Detroit steamed into the Park Row station at Chicago, a dense...

The Art of Eric Gill (December 1925)

THE ART OF ERIC GILL By HENRY LONGAN STUART WHENEVER an event of prime human significance has transpired, stirring nations to their depths, and making a violent break with continuity, its...

Books (December 1925)

BOOKS Newman as a Man of Letters, by Joseph J. Reilly. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.SO. IT HAS been the destiny of John Henry, Cardinal Newman, like the Master whom he served all his...

Books (December 1925)

BOOKS Spanish Mysticism, by E. Allison Peers. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $5.00. IT WAS the Spanish scholar, Menendez y Pelayo, who pointed out that there existed a whole Spanish school...

Vestigia (verse) (November 1925)

"Vestigu la O'er his last cruse of oil—last measure of grain, See Love sit brooding! If no prophet pass, Bidding the shrunken sack—the cavernous vase His wantonness hath spent, be filled...

State Universities, II.. Ernest Sutherland Bates Father William Doyle, S.J. (November 1925)

FATHER WILLIAM DOYLE, S.J. By HENRY LONGAN STUART THE dawn of Thursday, August, 16, 1917, the front line from St. Julien to the Roulers railway south of Frezenberg was held by Irishmen...

Account Me Not... (verse) (October 1925)

Account Me Not . . . Account me not disgenuine that I wear My Nessus-shirt of misery still bedeckt With pitiful tinsel favors, still affect Old fashions of flowers for the thorns I bear— Nor,...

Books (September 1925)

508 THE COMMONWEAL September 30, 1925 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Green Hat KATHARINE CORNELL has returned to New York at last, bringing Michael Arlen's The Green Hat with her. Of...

Mr. Page and the War (September 1925)

468 THE COMMONWEAL September 23, 1925 It is characteristic ,of ,the American poor—particularly those whom immigration has recently brought to us—to reverence education. They want it for...

Is the French Peasan Passing (February 1925)

374 THE COMMONWEAL February II, 1925 IS THE FRENCH PEASANT...

A Crusader of Charity (January 1925)

January 21, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 293 As is obvious, I am using the word reformer in a...

Mystics in Action (January 1925)

240 THE COMMONWEAL January 7, 1925 My last incident has to do with this same spot,...

Malnutrition on the Mind (December 1924)

i6o THE COMMONWEAL December 17, 1924 of Usher (included without the slightest vestige of ...

Civilization and Civilizers (November 1924)

November 26, 1924 THE COMMONWEAL CIVILIZATION AND THE CIVILIZERS By...

Louis Veuillot (November 1924)

44 THE COMMONWEAL November 19, 1924 LOUIS...