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22 THE COMMONWEAL May 8, 1929 BOOKS The Queen of Lisieux Sainte Therese of Lisieux, by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus; translated by Helen Younger Chase, with an introduction by Michael...

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November 7, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 21 by Rachel Crothers's intelligent direction, achieve a rare...

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636 THE COMMONWEAL October 24, 1928 BOOKS Adventures into Chaos Religion without God, by Fulton J. Sheen. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $3.50. THE world is always seeking...

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BOOKS The Russian Debacle The Fall of the Russian Empire, by Edmund A. Walsh. New York: Little, Brown and Company. $3.50. FATHER WALSH has written a book which is well worth reading. At the...

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BOOKS Saints and Symbols L'Art Chretien: Son Developpement Iconographique des Origines a Nos JourSj par Louis Brehier, Professeur a I'Universite de Clermont. Paris: Librarie...

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BOOKS Evolution and Faith Creation, by E. T. Brewster. Indianapolis: The BobbsMerrill Company. $3.50. MOST decently educated persons have at least a vague outline in their minds of what is...

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22 THE COMMONWEAL May 9, 1928 BOOKS Pilgrim Warriors The Crusaders and Other Historical Essays, presented to Dana C. Munro by his former students; edited by Louis J. Paetow. New York: F....

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First and Last Things The Nature of Deity, by J. E. Turner. New York: The Oxford University Press. $3.50. New Studies in Mystical Religion, by Rufus M. Jones. New York: The Macmillan Company....

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The Will to Beliefe The Reconstruction of Belief, by Right Reverend Charles Gore. Neuf York: Charles Scribner's Soni. $2.75DOCTOR GORE offers the educated reader a new edition of his former...

The Rise and Fall of a Tooth (March 1928)

THE fall of Hesperopithecus from his former high position has been recorded in these pages and in the columns of the press generally. Yet the history of the affair is, in itself and in its...

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One View of the Matter Immigration Crossroads, by Constantine Panunzio. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. AMERICA has grown into a snob, a parvenu, ashamed of its forbears, intolerant of...

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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...

Thomas Hardy as I Knew Him (February 1928)

I SUPPOSE it is a curious thing that one who, like myself, had been a close student of Hardy's novels almost from their earliest appearance, should never have suspected that the places which were...

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Faith and Ferocity Roman Society in Gaul in the Merovingian Age, by Sir Samuel Dill. New York: The Macmillan Company. $7.50. THE late Sir Samuel Dill has left in this book a lively picture of...

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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...

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John Sargent, by Evan Charteris. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $6.00. T MPARTIAL as a critic and sensitive as an historian, Mr. ••• Evan Charteris has with great care drawn a vivid,...

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Memoirs of a Revolutionist, by Vera Figner. New York: International Publishers. $3.00. THIS is almost an indispensable book for those who desire to study the genesis of the great Russian...

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Great English Churchmen Series, edited by Sidney Dark: The Life of Thomas Cranmer, by Anthony C. Deane; Archbishop Laud, by A. S. Duncan-Jones; John Wesley, by W. H. Hutton. New York: The...

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The Story of Fanny Burney, by Muriel Masefield. Cambridge University Press. $1.50. OF ALL the remarkable and interesting people who circled round Samuel Johnson, there is none who can be known...

The Ascent of Man (September 1927)

THOSE who are familiar with the numerous writings of that very distinguished anatomist. Sir Arthur Keith, will not need to be told that he possesses in enviable measure the power of placing his...

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Crime and Custom in Savage Society, by Bronislaw Malinotvski. Netv York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.23. PROFESSOR MALINOWSKI'S stay with the Trobrianders, a typical Melanesian population in...

A Triangular Duel (July 1927)

THOSE readers who still recall the celebrated triangular duel in which Mr. Midshipman Easy played a part may perhaps be reminded of it by the similar conflict in which three persons whose...

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A Short History of Civilization, by Lynn Thorndike. New York: F. S. Crofts and Company. $5.00. A HISTORY of civilization in some six hundred pages must of necessity be "short" and short in more...

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France and America, by Andre Tardieu. New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company. $3.00. THE latest book of M. Andre Tardieu, Minister of Public Works in France, sometime High Commissionnaire of France...

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The Letters of Mrs. Thrale, selected with an introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. London: John Lane. $1.80. NOW that scholars are culling from the immense store of letters and memoirs of the...

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Life and Work in Mediaeval Europe, by P. Boissonade; translated by Eileen Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $5.00. PROFESSOR BOISSONADE ends his treatise on mediaeval economics by saying that it...

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Bismarck: Geschichte eines K'dmpfers, by Emil Ludwig. Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt. MORE by coincidence and because the romantic method of history-writing is now the fashion than from any direct...

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BOOKS In China, by Abel Bonnard. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $$.oo. THE author of this interesting book is announced as "winner of the Grand Literary Prize awarded by the...

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611 BOOKS Moses in Red, by Lincoln Steffens. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company. $2.00. SOONER or later, every revolutionist comes around to it. He dallies for a time with the idea that...

Emergent Evolution (March 1927)

460 EMERGENT EVOLUTION By BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE PROFESSOR Herbert Spencer Jennings, of Johns Hopkins University, recently delivered an after-dinner talk on what he describes as the "fresh...

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441 BOOKS The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3.50. Poppies and Mandragora, by Edgar Saltus. New York: Harold Final. $2.00. Personae: Collected Poems of...

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BOOKS Holism and Evolution, by General, the Right Honorable, J. C. Smuts. New York: The Macmillan Company. ~3.5o. G ENERAL SMUTS tells us that it "has been my lot to have passed many years...

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BOOKS This Believing H/orld, by Lezvis Brozone. New York: The Macmillan Company. ~3.5o. T HIS is a book in the Van Loon tradition, written in a turgid, would-he impressive style, and...

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246 BOOKS Episodes in the History of England, by Arthur J. Ireland. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $2.00. History of England, by George Macauley Trevelyan. New York: Longmans, Green...

Man and the Origins of Life (December 1926)

122 THE COMMONWEAL December 8, 1926 |H i ii ~ i MAN AND THE ORIGINS OF LIFE By BERTRAM S THERE was a time, all will admit, when there was no such thing as llfe on this earth, the ques-...

Man and the Microscope (December 1926)

December I, I926 THE COMMONWEAL 99 MAN AND THE MICROSCOPE By BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE I N ONE of the Lay Sermons, Huxley writes of "our great antagonist--I speak as a man of science--the Roman...

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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...

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134 THE COMMONWEAL June 9, 1926 Ben Hur on the...

A Pre-Victorian Apostle (April 1926)

69o T H E COMMONWEAL April zS, x926 17 i, , , i i his exhibition, two photographs, one of a mountain, the other of a child: it was a simple contrast, the first presenting nature, the...

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BOOKS Congress, the Constitution and the Supreme Court, by Charles Warren. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3,50. /CONCERNING what has been called the "eternal triV> angle" of...

Black Magic (January 1926)

BLACK MAGIC By BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE THE second volume of the Cambridge Ancient History contains amidst a wealth of interesting matter, an allusion to early magic which brings to mind...

The Quest of Atlantis (December 1925)

i84 THE COMMONWEAL December 23, 1925 THE QUEST OF ATLANTIS By BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE <c HIDDEN treasure" and "lost islands" run a close race in the minds of romance lovers, and certainly...

The Everlasting Man (December 1925)

December 2, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 95 CHESTERTON'S MASTERPIECE THE EVERLASTING MAN <i By BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE (The following articles, by Sir Bertram Windle and The' odore Maynard, are...

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BOOKS Evolution in the Light of Modern Knowledge, by various authors. London: Blackie and Company. 2i/s. A REQUEST on the part of a student for information as to how the theory of evolution...

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484 THE COMMONWEAL September 23, 1925 magnificent opportunity to render a true service to art by an immediate and thorough revision of his text. The Mud Turtle THIS unappetizing title adorns...

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456 THE COMMONWEAL September 16, 1925 BOOKS La Conversione Religiosa, by Sante de Sanctis. Bologna: Zanichelli. IT is really a noteworthy social phenomenon that for the contemporary...

The Cancer Organism (September 1925)

4OO THE COMMONWEAL September 2, 1925 THE CANCER ORGANISM By BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE IN a recently published review in The Commonweal on Professor Bragg's book, Concerning the Nature of...

Scott and the Oxford Movement (December 1924)

December 3' 1924 THE COMMONWEAL I01 him, also, in the fact that our eyes permit that...

Science Sees the Light (November 1924)

No~ber 12, 1924 THE COMMONWEAL '7 SCIENCE SEES THE ...

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