education in how bookies, helped by a wire service right from the race track to their place of business, cash in on split-second timing. Needless to say this is very interesting, and as...
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Malt 13, t949 TH E Books COMMONWEAL Britoz Hadden. Noel F. Busch. Farrar, 8traus. ~3.oo. I T IS A qaestio~ ~r gives a better picture of a man - - a biography which is conscientiously...
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January 28, z949 THE COMMONWEAL 4Ol ance that it is as down-to-earth as the diapers which Dorothy washed for her grandson Eric. She is a mystic, but not misty-eyed. She devotes several pages to...
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Catholicism and Puritanism YOUR Excellency, Right Reverend Monsig-nori, Ladies and Gentlemen: I have long felt that writers should be read and not heard. I can only explain my presence here on the...
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470 The Angelic Porcupine MASON WADE FEW AMERICANS have been such thorough citizens of the world as Henry Adams. His heritage did much to make that possible: great-grandson of the...
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The Quebec Pro blem What it is in Canada and its impact on the United States* Mason Wade T HE TRAGEDY of the Province of Quebec today is that its desire to be left to itself is probab.ly...
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Books of the Week French Canada in Transition. Everett C. Hughes. Chicago. $2.50. THERE are far too many books about French Canada, and all too few of them are good. Getting away entirely from the...
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More Books of the Week Arrival and Departure. Arthur Koestler. Macmillan. $2.00. THERE is not an empty word in this book, not a single hollow reflexion, not one "literary dialogue" splitting the...
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Books of the Week
Three Novels
H. M. Pulham, Esquire. John P. Marquand. Little, Brown. $2.50.
ONCE AGAIN John Marquand has applied the scalpel delicately and lovingly to the species Bos-toniensis...
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January 7, 1938 The Commonweal 303 Boos An American Catholic Version The New Testament: A New Translation from the Original Greek, by Very Rev. F. A. Spencer, O.P.; edited by Charles J. Callan,...
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October 18, 1935 The Commonweal 605 A CATHOLIC SPENGLER By MASON WADE THERE is a growing realization of the fact that European culture has reached a crisis. Spengler is but one of the...
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