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?f DID YOU ever hear the story of the twenty-six financiers of Owes?" asked Professor Ruble, expanding genially behind his magnificent grey-black beard. We had discussed dessert, the business...

The Non-Catholic Catholic (November 1930)

As we have previously announced, Mr. Wickham died suddenly in Rome on November 3. This article—an open letter to Mr. Donald Powell—had just been receivedj and is evidence of his vigor right up to...

Denaturing the Middle Ages (November 1930)

AN ARTIST is sometimes entitled to indulge in exaggeration. It is his metier. In no other *• way can he isolate his theme and give it that fictitious importance which attracts attention...

Places and Persons (September 1930)

Places and Persons THE PRESENT OF FUTURISM By HARVEY WICKHAM I DO not know whether this is the anniversary, subcentenary, or anything of the sort, of the birth, death or triumph of Filippo...

The Stranger within the Gates (July 1930)

280 THE COMMONWEAL July 9, 1930 THE STRANGER WITHIN THE GATES By HARVEY WICKHAM THE treatment of minorities has always been one of the great problems of statecraft—never more so than...

For the Common Woe (June 1930)

FOR THE COMMON WOE By HARVEY WICKHAM THIS article should really be sent to the authorities—say to one of the high lord executioners of the Ku Klux Klan— for it contains, or is about to contain,...

A Century of Evolution (March 1930)

A CENTURY OF EVOLUTION By HARVEY WICKHAM FRANCE has recently been celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the death of Lamarck, "the true founder of the doctrine of evolution," and considerable...

The Cross and the Eagle (January 1930)

THE CROSS AND THE EAGLE By HARVEY WICKHAM Events in Rome have been so universally significant and interesting that we have thought it well to supplement the paper by Umberto Guggieri, published...

The Vulgate Revision (June 1928)

150 THE COMMONWEAL June 13, 1928 THE VULGATE REVISION By HARVEY WICKHAM SOMETIME in the near future there will issue from the Vatican Press a folio volume some three inches in thickness....

Potenziani of the Pilgrim Staff (May 1928)

THE COMMONWEAL May 16, 1928 POTENZIANI OF THE PILGRIM STAFF By HARVEY WICKHAM WHAT was privately said by Prince SpadaPotenziani, Governor of Rome, to Mayor Walker on the latter's recent...

Standards and Understanding (March 1928)

IT IS becoming almost impossible to pick up a newspaper or a magazine without coming upon the expression "our American standard of living," with the implication that this "standard" is not only...

For the Love of Children (December 1927)

THE tourist who visits the church of Saint Onofrio, at the northern end of the Janiculum hill, in Rome, usually pauses on his way to the Tasso Museum (in what was once the old monastery)...

A College for Martyrs (November 1927)

THE recent decision of the Fascist government of Rome to spare the English College, on Via Monserrato, which plans as originally drawn for the improvement of the city threatened to destroy,...

The Theatre at Ostia, II (October 1927)

WHEN, on May 28, the ancient Roman theatre at Ostia reopened after its sixteen centuries of lethargy, it was with the performance of The Seven Against Thebes, of Aeschylus, followed, as...

The Theatre at Ostia, I (October 1927)

{This is the first of two papers by Mr. Wickham to appear in The Commonweal on the recent re-opening—after sixteen centuries of inactivity—of the ancient Roman theatre at Ostia Excavations.—The...

The Renaissance of Machlavelli (September 1927)

(This is the second of ttvo papers to appear in The Commonweal presenting a re-examination of the character and doctrines of Machiavelti.—The Editors.) IN A letter to Vettori, dated December 10,...

The Renaissance of Machiavelli (September 1927)

(^This is the first of two papers which T H E COMMONWEAL will publish on the character and principles of Machiavelli, with particular reference to their connection with and influence on the...

The Misbehaviorists (June 1927)

HENRY NELSON WIEMAN Is a teacher of philosophy at Occidental College, Los Angeles, and the author of Religious Experience and the Scientific Method. Those who have not access to his book will...

Morals in Plain Figures (May 1927)

708 MORALS IN PLAIN FIGURES By HARVEY WICKHAM THE passion for weighing and measuring, which is one of the most characteristic passions of our times, has at last invaded ethics. I do not...

The Facts of Fascism (December 1926)

204 THE COMMONWEAL December 29, x926 THE FACTS OF FASCISM By HARVEY WICKI-/AM D OUBTLESS those who, four years ago, were frightened into an anti-Fascist stand by the famous March on Rome,...

Baiting the Duce (May 1926)

BAITING THE DUCE By HARVEY WICKHAM A MERICANS, so many of whom no longer ber\ lieve in a personal devil, seem, nevertheless, unable to enjoy existence without some villain in the piece. Lenin...

Widdemer, Margaret

Widner, Thomas C.

Wieder, Laurance

Wiener, Ferdinand J.

Wiesenfarth, Joseph

Wiest, Brendan

WIETA, DONALD

Wigbold, H. A.

WIGGINS, ANTHONY A.

Wilber, Charles K.

Wilberforce, Robert

Wilbur, Russell